Artist Robert Bateman
Title Untitled - Algonquin Park
Media oil on paper board
Size 20 x 23.75 in. / 50.8 x 60.3 cm.
Frame Size 29 x 32.5 x 1 in.
Sold $5,000
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Notes
signed lower right; inscribed 'for Libby, R.R.L...' verso; printed inscription on artist's label verso; framed
Provenance
ex-collection, family member of the artist; purchased at Pegasus Art Gallery, Salt Spring Island; private collection, Calgary / Mexico
Biographical Information
Robert Bateman ~ [b.1930] Canadian RCA, OC
Born in Toronto, Bateman taught high school for 20 years, including two years in Nigeria, after graduating with an Honour's degree in geography from the University of Toronto in 1954. He began painting full time in 1976. His love and keen observation of the world around him was expressed through art from a young age. A recent article about him states that "by 12 years old, he had painted every hawk and owl in North America" [see below: article in Canadian Geographic]. The recipient of more than a dozen honourary doctorates and the subject of over nearly as many documentary films, he is one of the best known artists in Canada. He currently divides himself between his home on British Columbia’s Gulf Islands and a cottage in Ontario’s Haliburton County.
For more biographical information, examples of work, and a full list of publications see artist's website at Robert Bateman; for a 2024 article about the artist see Canadian Geographic; see The World of Robert Bateman, R.Derry, Ramsey, Random House, 1986; Portraits Of Nature: Paintings By Robert Bateman, by S.Shetler, Ontario, Penguin, 1987; Robert Bateman: An Artist In Nature, R.Bateman, Random/Madison, 1990; The Art of Robert Bateman, R.Bateman, Crescent Books, 1993 among others; biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1, addendum