Bruno Bobak Auction Prices and Value Guide

Bruno Bobak auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 179 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Bruno Bobak auction prices: quick answer

Bruno Bobak auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Bruno Bobak
Source records
179
Market update
2026-02-06

Bruno Bobak market snapshot

Bruno Bobak shows developing auction liquidity with 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $460. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-12.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (68.8% · 11 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (31.3% · 5 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$650
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-12

Artist context

About Bruno Bobak

Bruno Bobak portrait
Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY 2.0 · Source

Born

1923

Died

2012

Nationality

Canadian

Bruno Bobak (1923–2012) was a Polish-born Canadian artist, teacher, and official war artist. During the Second World War he served with the 4th Canadian Armoured Division and produced paintings and watercolours connected with Canadian military experience. Watercolour was his principal medium, although his documented output also included paintings and woodcuts. Surviving wartime works depict such subjects as dental treatment, military communications, and tank transport, placing part of his practice within Canada’s visual record of the conflict. Bobak was married to Canadian artist Molly Lamb Bobak, another important figure in Canadian war art. Collectors may encounter his work through watercolours, prints, paintings, and military-themed compositions offered in the secondary market. His identity is documented across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Library of Congress authority records, while the available biographical sources connect his artistic career closely to teaching, wartime service, and Canadian art.

Watercolour paintingPaintingWoodcutSecond World War military personnel and activitiesCanadian military transport and communications

Common works and media

Works associated with Bruno Bobak include watercolour paintings, other paintings, and woodcuts. Auction and appraisal contexts may also include compositions depicting Canadian military personnel, communications, transport, medical activity, and other Second World War subjects. Because the available sources do not provide a catalogue raisonné or comprehensive medium-by-medium inventory, an individual object’s authorship, date, technique, and relationship to Bobak’s wartime work should be established from the object and its documentation rather than from subject matter alone.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a Bruno Bobak work should begin with its medium, technique, subject, date, dimensions, condition, signature, and supporting documentation. Watercolours, paintings, and woodcuts should be compared with records for the same type of object rather than treated as interchangeable. Military imagery may require additional research to determine whether it belongs to Bobak’s documented Second World War activity or is a later treatment of a related subject. Relevant public auction records can help establish context through comparable lots, sale dates, and realized prices, but the collected source pack does not include enough lot-level evidence to support a price forecast or broad market-trend claim.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Watercolour paintings
  • Woodcuts and other prints
  • Paintings and works with wartime or military subjects

Value drivers

  1. Medium and technique, including whether a work is a watercolour, painting, or woodcut
  2. Subject matter and its relationship to Bobak's documented Second World War service and official war-art role
  3. Documented date and military context for wartime subjects
  4. Comparison with relevant public auction records, including sale date and realized price when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not provide detailed auction-lot descriptions, condition reports, provenance records, edition data, or individual realized prices.
  • No movement or school affiliation is assigned because the collected institutional and authority sources do not establish one.
  • An appraisal should distinguish documented wartime work from later work and should not infer official-war-art status for an individual object without supporting evidence.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Bruno Bobak

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Bruno Bobak worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Bruno Bobak artwork?

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