Tony Oursler: career timeline

American · b. 1957 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 39 of 40 lots (97% 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.

Tony Oursler: 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
1990s	16	12	$18.5kSign up	Other
2000s	20	14	$5.8kSign up	Acrylic
2010s	2	1	$2.3kSign up	Screenprint

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1990s 16 works

Sold: 12 of 16
Median: $18.5kSign up
Average: $19kSign up
Typical size: 22 × 14 in (56 × 36 cm)
Mediums: Other (7), Acrylic (6), Gouache (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1), Flowers & still life (1)

1993 Road Movie$12.6kSign up
1993 Crying Doll (Floral #2)$16.3kSign up
1994 Cut Up$28.6kSign up
1994 Untitled (Vaseline); Untitled (Nytol); Untitled (Alpine White); Untitled (Noxema); Untitled (Scuf Magic); Untitled (Carmex); Untitled (Vivarin); Untitled (Lubrin); Untitled (Mars Bar); and Untitled (Unisom Sleep Gel)$6.3kSign up
1996 Troubler$16.8kSign up
1996 Trance$31.2kSign up
1996 Untitled (Talking photograph)$315Sign up
1996 Rock$27.5kSign up
1996 The Code$25.5kSign up
1996 Sybil and MeUnsold
1998 Truth$20.2kSign up
1998 Blue AntennaUnsold · sold 2×

Show 4 more (1990s)

1999 Eight works: (i) Monkey ; (ii) Copy / Endocrin ; (iii) Cold War ; (iv) Untitled ; (v) Bean ; (vi) Gray Devil ; (vii) Sexual Bounce Back ; (viii) Screen$13.2kSign up
1999 Mimetic 2Unsold
1999 Mimetic 1Unsold
1999 Separation$29.4kSign up

2000s 20 works

Sold: 14 of 20
Median: $5.8kSign up
Average: $8.6kSign up
Typical size: 23 × 22.5 in (58 × 57 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (6), Sculpture (6), Other (4)
Subjects: —

2000 Medium Combustion$13.5kSign up
2000 Thrown$2.5kSign up
2000 Blue Transmission$16.4kSign up
2000 SoggResult not published
2000 SoggResult not published
2002 Untitled$635Sign up
2002 Spontangled$2.5kSign up
2002 Untitled$24.5kSign up
2003 Blu winUnsold
2003 Untitled$1.5kSign up
2003 Ohne Titel$9.2kSign up
2004 Prismatic # 2$750Sign up

Show 8 more (2000s)

2004 Tumble$22.9kSign up
2004 OoksUnsold
2004 GroftUnsold
2006 Fool, from Door Cycle$13.5kSign up
2007 Untitled (Mobile Phone)$505Sign up
2008 Cherry Nokia$10.2kSign up
2008 Cherry NokiaUnsold
2009 The Revolving Lamp$1.4kSign up

2010s 2 works

Sold: 1 of 2
Median: $2.3kSign up
Average: $2.3kSign up
Typical size: 30.5 × 22.5 in (77 × 57 cm)
Mediums: Screenprint (1), Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

2019 Recognition (image 1-3.4)$2.3kSign up
c. 2019 Recognition (image 1-3.1), from RecognitionUnsold

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: $4.1kSign up
Average: $4.1kSign up
Typical size: 30 × 22 in (77 × 56 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2013 Untitled (Fellini's Funeral)$4.1kSign 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 Tony Oursler auction results →