Tim Johnson: career timeline

Australian · b. 1947 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 25 of 28 lots (88% 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.

Tim Johnson: 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
1970s	1	1	$1.1kSign up	Multiple
1980s	10	7	$1.1kSign up	Acrylic
1990s	8	6	$1.3kSign up	Oil
2000s	4	3	$3.6kSign up	Acrylic

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1970s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $1.1kSign up
Average: $1.1kSign up
Typical size: 53.5 × 33 in (136 × 84 cm)
Mediums: Multiple (1)
Subjects: —

1970 Type A no.11 1970$1.1kSign up

1980s 10 works

Sold: 7 of 10
Median: $1.1kSign up
Average: $2.8kSign up
Typical size: 25 × 23.5 in (63 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (7), Oil (2), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1), Rivers & marshes (1)

1982 Papunya 2$3.6kSign up
1982 Freddie West and George Yapa Yapa$2.5kSign up
1983 Children Playing, Papunya$536Sign up
c. 1984 Desert Flower$355Sign up
1986 Maitreya Paradise (Taklamakan Desert)$1.1kSign up
1987 Untitled$515Sign up
1987 Talisman (1987)Unsold
1987 India 1987Unsold
1988 Georges River$10.9kSign up
1988 Yuendumu Stories 1988Unsold

1990s 8 works

Sold: 6 of 8
Median: $1.3kSign up
Average: $4kSign up
Typical size: 41.5 × 42 in (106 × 107 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5), Acrylic (3)
Subjects: Landscapes (2)

2000s 4 works

Sold: 3 of 4
Median: $3.6kSign up
Average: $3.4kSign up
Typical size: 54 × 54 in (138 × 137 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (4)
Subjects: —

2000 Mahakala$875Sign up · sold 2×
2002 Green Tara$5.6kSign up
2002 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 2002Unsold
2003 Shakyamuni 2003$3.6kSign up

Creation date not recorded

3 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 2020s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $1.6kSign up
Average: $1.6kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 22.5 in (31 × 57 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (2), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Papunya Painters$368Sign up
sold 2022 Heaven's Door$2.8kSign up
sold 2025 (2)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 Tim Johnson auction results →