Price databaseBrowseSell your artwork
Watchlist

Willem de Kooning: career timeline

American · 1904–1997 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 222 of 264 lots (85% 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.

Willem de Kooning: 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
1920s11$330kSign upOil
1940s53$485kSign upDrawing
1950s167$73.7kSign upDrawing
1960s3529$22.5kSign upDrawing
1970s11298$4.6kSign upLithograph
1980s5045$7.5kSign upLithograph

Where does mine fit?

Enter what you know about a work by Willem de Kooning to see the closest recorded works from the same period, with their auction results. These are past records only, not a valuation: condition, authenticity, provenance and the market all change what a work brings. For an auction estimate of your work, get a free auction estimate.

1920s 1 work

Sold
1 of 1
Median
$330kSign up
Average
$330kSign up
Typical size
36 × 26 in (91 × 66 cm)
Mediums
Oil (1)
Subjects
Flowers & still life (1)

1940s 5 works

Sold
3 of 5
Median
$485kSign up
Average
$1.2MSign up
Typical size
11 × 11.5 in (28 × 30 cm)
Mediums
Drawing (3), Oil (2)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (2)

1950s 16 works

Sold
7 of 16
Median
$73.7kSign up
Average
$156kSign up
Typical size
11.5 × 14.5 in (29 × 37 cm)
Mediums
Drawing (11), Oil (2), Pastel (2)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (10), Abstract (1)
Show 4 more (1950s)

1960s 35 works

Sold
29 of 35
Median
$22.5kSign up
Average
$221kSign up
Typical size
17 × 18.5 in (43 × 47 cm)
Mediums
Drawing (11), Oil (10), Lithograph (10)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (7), Abstract (1)
Show 12 more (1960s)

…and 11 more works from this group in the full results list.

1970s 112 works

Sold
98 of 112
Median
$4.6kSign up
Average
$327kSign up
Typical size
25.5 × 23.5 in (65 × 60 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (78), Oil (10), Drawing (9)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (21), Markets & villages (3), Beach scenes (2)
Show 12 more (1970s)

…and 88 more works from this group in the full results list.

1980s 50 works

Sold
45 of 50
Median
$7.5kSign up
Average
$578kSign up
Typical size
26 × 25 in (66 × 63 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (44), Oil (3), Screenprint (2)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (17), Abstract (7)
Show 12 more (1980s)

…and 26 more works from this group in the full results list.

Creation date not recorded

39 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 2 works

Sold
1 of 2
Median
$10.6kSign up
Average
$10.6kSign up
Typical size
21 × 18 in (54 × 45 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (1), Drawing (1)
Subjects
—

Undated, sold in the 2010s 19 works

Sold
18 of 19
Median
$3.1kSign up
Average
$9.6kSign up
Typical size
21 × 17.5 in (53 × 45 cm)
Mediums
Other (12), Lithograph (3), Drawing (1)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (2), Abstract (1)
Show 6 more (2010s)

…and 7 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 18 works

Sold
15 of 18
Median
$8.6kSign up
Average
$11.7kSign up
Typical size
13.5 × 16.5 in (35 × 42 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (6), Drawing (6), Oil (4)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (2), Abstract (1)
Show 6 more (2020s)

…and 6 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 Willem de Kooning auction results →