Tomie Ohtake: career timeline

Brazilian · 1913–2015 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 164 of 258 lots (62% 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.

Tomie Ohtake: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.
Decade madeWorksSoldMedian sold priceMain medium
1960s230—Oil
1970s370—Oil
1980s331$393Sign upEtching
1990s450—Etching
2000s140—Etching
2010s10—Acrylic

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1960s 23 works

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Typical size
23.5 × 19 in (60 × 48 cm)
Mediums
Oil (16), Screenprint (7)
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1970s 37 works

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Typical size
39.5 × 39.5 in (100 × 100 cm)
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Oil (32), Screenprint (4), Acrylic (1)
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…and 13 more works from this group in the full results list.

1980s 33 works

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1 of 33
Median
$393Sign up
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$393Sign up
Typical size
27.5 × 25 in (70 × 64 cm)
Mediums
Etching (16), Oil (12), Screenprint (4)
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…and 9 more works from this group in the full results list.

1990s 45 works

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Typical size
23.5 × 27.5 in (60 × 70 cm)
Mediums
Etching (25), Screenprint (8), Oil (6)
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…and 21 more works from this group in the full results list.

2000s 14 works

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Typical size
25.5 × 22.5 in (65 × 57 cm)
Mediums
Etching (9), Screenprint (4), Oil (1)
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2010s 1 work

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59 × 59 in (150 × 150 cm)
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Acrylic (1)
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Creation date not recorded

93 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 1990s 3 works

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53 × 53 in (135 × 135 cm)
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Oil (3)
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Undated, sold in the 2000s 38 works

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Typical size
39.5 × 39.5 in (100 × 100 cm)
Mediums
Oil (33), Watercolor (2), Acrylic (2)
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…and 26 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 27 works

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1 of 27
Median
$400Sign up
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$400Sign up
Typical size
27.5 × 25.5 in (70 × 65 cm)
Mediums
Oil (18), Screenprint (2), Lithograph (2)
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…and 15 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 25 works

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Typical size
23.5 × 27.5 in (60 × 70 cm)
Mediums
Oil (10), Etching (6), Screenprint (4)
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Show 6 more (2020s)

…and 13 more works from this group in the full results list.

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 Tomie Ohtake auction results →