Sterling Ruby: career timeline

German · b. 1972 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 160 of 161 lots (99% 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.

Sterling Ruby: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
2000s	79	74	$27.1kSign up	Other
2010s	73	59	$35kSign up	Mixed media
2020s	3	3	$11.5kSign up	Sculpture

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

2000s 79 works

Sold: 74 of 79
Median: $27.1kSign up
Average: $113kSign up
Typical size: 40.5 × 42 in (103 × 106 cm)
Mediums: Other (21), Mixed media (16), Sculpture (15)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1), Sunsets & night (1), Figures & portraits (1)

2003 Spectrum Series: Trunk$35kSign up
2004 Absolute Contempt for Total Serenity #3$967Sign up · sold 2×
2004 Rebirth Carapace$1.4kSign up
2004 90 Degree- Cryer$7.5kSign up
2005 Cry$4.4kSign up
2005 Prime Mover #1$17.1kSign up
2005 CRY$11.3kSign up
2005 Candles (Exercise in Obsessive)$25.2kSign up
2005 Untitled$22.1kSign up
2005 Untitled (Craft Geometry Study #3)$3.3kSign up
2005 Red, White, Blue$3.1kSign up
2005 KATIE BEERS Excavation1$10kSign up

Show 12 more (2000s)

2005 Mother and Father Saved with Exhaust Pipes$60kSign up
2005 Red, White, Blue$10.1kSign up
2005 (MAPPING) JORDACHE NAIL POLISH$30kSign up
2006 Physicalism, The Recombine IUnsold
2006 Plate 1 + 2 (diptych)$889Sign up
2006 Ceramic (Brass Consumer)$11.4kSign up
2006 Mapping$18.9kSign up
2006 The Martyr$22.5kSign up
2006 CARVINGS 1-5Unsold
2006 Physicalism, The Recombine 1- 6$46.1kSign up
2006 Transcompositional (White Dress)$11.4kSign up
2006 Ceramic/Brass Facial with Red Bowl$34.6kSign up

…and 55 more works from this group in the full results list.

2010s 73 works

Sold: 59 of 73
Median: $35kSign up
Average: $99.1kSign up
Typical size: 50.5 × 51.5 in (129 × 131 cm)
Mediums: Mixed media (24), Other (18), Sculpture (17)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

2010 SP122$330kSign up
2010 ASHTRAY 31$8.9kSign up
2010 Transgrid/Feminique 1$36.6kSign up
2010 SP151$539kSign up
2010 Soft Vortex Diptych 1Unsold
2010 PurseUnsold
2010 Monument Stalagmite/Pink Plague$138kSign up
2010 Gator$40kSign up
2010 Stellar Cannibals$75kSign up
2010 6 Cell Quilt$20.1kSign up
2010 Alabaster 10-17$91.2kSign up
2010 SP138$347kSign up

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…and 49 more works from this group in the full results list.

2020s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $11.5kSign up
Average: $11.3kSign up
Typical size: 30 × 19 in (77 × 48 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (2), Other (1)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

Creation date not recorded

1 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 2010s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $20.3kSign up
Average: $20.3kSign up
Typical size: 22.5 × 30 in (57 × 77 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2014 Arc en Ciel$20.3kSign up

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 Sterling Ruby auction results →