Wu Guanzhong: career timeline

Chinese · 1919–2010 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 28 of 31 lots (89% 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.

Wu Guanzhong: 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
1950s	1	1	$52.2kSign up	Watercolor
1970s	5	4	$295kSign up	Oil
1980s	8	8	$225kSign up	Drawing
1990s	9	7	$616kSign up	Drawing
2000s	2	1	$132kSign up	Drawing

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $52.2kSign up
Average: $52.2kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 15.5 in (28 × 39 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (1)
Subjects: —

1956 Wisteria$52.2kSign up

1970s 5 works

Sold: 4 of 5
Median: $295kSign up
Average: $315kSign up
Typical size: 15.5 × 15.5 in (40 × 40 cm)
Mediums: Oil (4), Drawing (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1), Harbours & ports (1)

1972 Lacebard PineUnsold
1975 Mountain Bamboo$539kSign up
1976 By the Li River$442kSign up
1977 Viewing Fish at Flower Harbour$147kSign up · sold 2×
1977 Lu Xun's Old Home$131kSign up

1980s 8 works

Sold: 8 of 8
Median: $225kSign up
Average: $268kSign up
Typical size: 27 × 33.5 in (69 × 85 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (6), Acrylic (2)
Subjects: —

c. 1980 Lion Grove Garden$681kSign up
1980 Sunlight Rock$157kSign up
1980 Wisteria$15.7kSign up
1982 A Heap of Stones$376kSign up
1983 Blooming Plums$188kSign up
1983 The Flying White of Waterfalls$216kSign up
1985 Mansion in Jiangnan$234kSign up
1987 Black Roof Wall$278kSign up

1990s 9 works

Sold: 7 of 9
Median: $616kSign up
Average: $630kSign up
Typical size: 19.5 × 24 in (50 × 61 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (5), Oil (4)
Subjects: Boats (1), Landscapes (1)

1991 Fish Boats$374kSign up
1992 Plum Blossom in the Snow$847kSign up
1994 Springs and Autumns$616kSign up
1996 Spring to the North$1.6MSign up
1996 The Blooming Mountain$833kSign up
1997 Hong KongUnsold
1997 Eternity$73.6kSign up
1997 WisteriaUnsold
1999 Landscape$75.2kSign up · sold 2×

2000s 2 works

Sold: 1 of 2
Median: $132kSign up
Average: $132kSign up
Typical size: 22 × 33.5 in (56 × 85 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

2000 Fruit Tree$132kSign up · sold 2×
2007 Jiangnan Wu (Houses of Jiangnan)Unsold

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 2010s 2 works

Sold: 1 of 2
Median: $263kSign up
Average: $263kSign up
Typical size: 18.5 × 13 in (47 × 33 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (2)
Subjects: Palms (1), Landscapes (1)

sold 2012 Palm TreesUnsold
sold 2016 Landscape of Mount Huang$263kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $884Sign up
Average: $884Sign up
Typical size: 21 × 19 in (53 × 48 cm)
Mediums: Print (other) (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2023 Alley Way$884Sign 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 Wu Guanzhong auction results →