Stephen Bambury: career timeline
New Zealand · b. 1951 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 106 of 115 lots (92% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.
| Decade made | Works | Sold | Median sold price | Main medium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1 | 1 | $4.2kSign up | Mixed media |
| 1980s | 14 | 9 | $4.8kSign up | Acrylic |
| 1990s | 35 | 29 | $7.1kSign up | Acrylic |
| 2000s | 41 | 25 | $18.9kSign up | Acrylic |
| 2010s | 3 | 2 | $6.8kSign up | Acrylic |
| 2020s | 3 | 1 | $21.7kSign up | Photograph |
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1970s 1 work
- Sold
- 1 of 1
- Median
- $4.2kSign up
- Average
- $4.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 18 × 36 in (46 × 92 cm)
- Mediums
- Mixed media (1)
- Subjects
- —
1976 Echo, Dichromatic Structure$4.2kSign up
1980s 14 works
- Sold
- 9 of 14
- Median
- $4.8kSign up
- Average
- $4.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 17 × 15.5 in (43 × 40 cm)
- Mediums
- Acrylic (5), Mixed media (5), Oil (3)
- Subjects
- —
1980 Site Works Set 5 No. 6$4.2kSign up
1981 No. 26 (‘Spot’ for J)Unsold
1981 Painting No. 29$8.7kSign up
1983 Homage to Morandi (No. 4)$2.1kSign up
1984 Homage to Morandi (No 2)$3.1kSign up
1984 Homage to Morandi (No. 2)Unsold
1986 Stone (Disc)$4.8kSign up
1986 Image-Object (Magenta/Yellow)$1.5kSign up · sold 2×
1987 ‘1/2 Japanese’Unsold
1988 Loaded with Potential Space ArticulationUnsold
1988 In The Direction Of A Metallic Organization'$6.1kSign up
1989 ‘The Plumb-Line in our Hand’Unsold
Show 2 more (1980s)
1990s 35 works
- Sold
- 29 of 35
- Median
- $7.1kSign up
- Average
- $14.7kSign up
- Typical size
- 16.5 × 19.5 in (42 × 50 cm)
- Mediums
- Acrylic (24), Drawing (5), Other (3)
- Subjects
- Abstract (1)
1991 Also Relieve The Heaviness Of The Materials'$9.2kSign up
1991 “And By Exteriorization”$22.1kSign up
1991 "Of the Organic and the Functional"$4.7kSign up
1991 Of the Organic and the Functional$4.7kSign up
1992 “Differentiated, Transvalued, Disproportioned” (Primary)$7.1kSign up · sold 2×
1992 Realised by the Mutual Interaction (Red/White)Unsold
1992 "Even though it appears abstract" (Chakra IV)Unsold · sold 2×
1992 Of the Human DualityUnsold
1992 ‘And Also Its Constant Equilibrium” (Chakra No. 5)$42.6kSign up
1993 “Of the Organic and the Functional (Copper)”$26.4kSign up
1993 Through the Force of Necessity$3.9kSign up · sold 2×
1994 Thanks, Again (III)$3.5kSign up
Show 12 more (1990s)
1994 Necessary Correction$20.5kSign up
1994 “Rustic appearances must be removed” (Primary)$21.8kSign up
1994 "Of An Inwardness Deepened" (Green)$9kSign up
1994 The Reason of its True Form'$19.1kSign up
1994 Untitled$2.4kSign up
1994 Necessary Correction$25.1kSign up
1995 Necessary Correction VII$19.2kSign up
1995 Necessary Correction VIIUnsold
1996 Affective Psychosensory Language$4kSign up
1996 FVE 610 (Dark)$5.9kSign up
1996 FVB603 (Light)$3.8kSign up · sold 2×
1996 Sienna (X)$4.8kSign up
…and 11 more works from this group in the full results list.
2000s 41 works
- Sold
- 25 of 41
- Median
- $18.9kSign up
- Average
- $22.5kSign up
- Typical size
- 27.5 × 25.5 in (70 × 65 cm)
- Mediums
- Acrylic (28), Other (6), Sculpture (4)
- Subjects
- —
2000 Hausen (Another Place), Slovenia, 2000Unsold
2000 Used Materials are Taken and Manipulated$3.6kSign up
2000 BarakaUnsold
2000 Necessary Correction XVIII$50.4kSign up
2001 SisterUnsold
2001 The Second Baraka Painting$25kSign up
2001 By the Fact That They Were Materially Separate$6.5kSign up
2001 “To Blur the Boundaries of Authorship”Unsold
2001 “To Blur the Boundaries of Authorship”Unsold
2001 Letters to Paul (VIII)Unsold
2001 Column of Light$38.2kSign up
2001 "Which Relates Simultaneously To Two Existing Codes"$4.3kSign up
Show 12 more (2000s)
2001 The Rhythem of his TruthUnsold
2001 Here I Give Thanks (Chakra)$40kSign up
2002 “The Cosmogonies of Rain”Unsold
2002 ‘Forbidden City’$52.1kSign up
2002 China (XIII)$5kSign up
2003 Words and Sounds$12.8kSign up · sold 2×
2003 "Cartesian Circle"$10.4kSign up
2004 Site Line$5.8kSign up
2004 Siena (XXXIX)$11.6kSign up
2004 Necessary Protection (XVII)$18.9kSign up
2004 Cartesian Circle (XI)$33.1kSign up
2004 Exoteric/Esoteric$10.3kSign up
…and 17 more works from this group in the full results list.
2010s 3 works
- Sold
- 2 of 3
- Median
- $6.8kSign up
- Average
- $6.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 15.5 × 30.5 in (39 × 78 cm)
- Mediums
- Acrylic (3)
- Subjects
- —
2010 MnemosyneUnsold
2014 Cartesian Circle (CC 1402)$8.7kSign up
2014 Fourteen Mirrors (VII)$4.9kSign up
2020s 3 works
- Sold
- 1 of 3
- Median
- $21.7kSign up
- Average
- $21.7kSign up
- Typical size
- 21.5 × 15.5 in (55 × 40 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (2), Sculpture (1)
- Subjects
- —
2020 Melancholia (Durer)$21.7kSign up
2020 Symphony (n.)Unsold
2020 Symphony (n.)Unsold
Creation date not recorded
9 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.
Undated, sold in the 2000s 1 work
Undated, sold in the 2010s 5 works
- Sold
- 3 of 5
- Median
- $1kSign up
- Average
- $1.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 19.5 × 13 in (49 × 33 cm)
- Mediums
- Acrylic (3), Screenprint (2)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2017 UntitledUnsold
sold 2017 Ideogram No. 8$1kSign up
sold 2017 Ideogram No. 7$419Sign up
sold 2019 Untitled$2.3kSign up
sold 2019 UntitledUnsold
Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works
- Sold
- 2 of 3
- Median
- $12.8kSign up
- Average
- $12.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 12 × 12 in (31 × 31 cm)
- Mediums
- Other (2), Oil (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2020 Being on the One$20.4kSign up
sold 2021 China XXIX$5.2kSign up
sold 2023 Homage to Morandi (No. 6)Unsold
Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Stephen Bambury auction results →