Xu Bing: career timeline

Chinese · b. 1955 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 19 of 20 lots (95% 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.

Xu Bing: 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
1980s	7	4	$52.8kSign up	Woodcut / linocut
1990s	3	2	$5kSign up	Woodcut / linocut
2000s	8	6	$138kSign up	Drawing

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1980s 7 works

Sold: 4 of 7
Median: $52.8kSign up
Average: $62.3kSign up
Typical size: 20.5 × 28.5 in (53 × 72 cm)
Mediums: Woodcut / linocut (6), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (2)

c. 1987 Five Series of Repetition$57.1kSign up
1987 Five Series of Repetition: (i) Haystack Reflection; (ii) Black Pool; (iii) Withered Pool; (iv) Pool of Life; (v) Black Tadpoles; (vi) Field; (vii) Big River; (viii) Moving Cloud; (ix) Farmland; (x) Mountain Place$48.5kSign up
1987 Series of Repetitions: A Great RiverUnsold
1987 GrasslandUnsold
1987 From: „Five Series of Repetitions$130kSign up
c. 1987 An Analysed Reflection of the World: the Final Volume of the CenturyUnsold
1988 Cloud Shadows$13.6kSign up

1990s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $5kSign up
Average: $5kSign up
Typical size: 16.5 × 22.5 in (42 × 57 cm)
Mediums: Woodcut / linocut (2), Other (1)
Subjects: —

1990 An Analysed Reflection of the World: the Final Volume of the CenturyUnsold
c. 1994 Square Word: New English Calligraphy (An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy)$6.4kSign up
1997 "Lost Letters"$3.7kSign up

2000s 8 works

Sold: 6 of 8
Median: $138kSign up
Average: $163kSign up
Typical size: 46.5 × 48 in (119 × 122 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (6), Sculpture (1), Other (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

2001 Reading Landscape Series$201kSign up
2001 Read View (Landscript)$192kSign up
2001 Chairman Mao Red BookUnsold
2003 New English Calligraphy - Nursery Rhymes Five: Jack and Jill$29.8kSign up
2004 Landscript$416kSign up
2004 Make the Past Serve the Present, Make the Foreign Things Serve China (a pair)$84.7kSign up
2007 Poems of longfellowUnsold · sold 2×
2008 New English Calligraphy - Poem of Bei Dao (A pair)$52.2kSign up

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 2000s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $36.8kSign up
Average: $36.8kSign up
Typical size: 17.5 × 27 in (45 × 69 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2006 Square Word Calligraphy: Nursery Rhymes Four$36.8kSign 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 Xu Bing auction results →