# Anton Heijboer artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Death date: 2005-04-09
- Nationality: Dutch
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Etching, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Anton Heijboer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Anton_Heyboer_%281974%29.jpg/1280px-Anton_Heyboer_%281974%29.jpg)
Rob Croes for Anefo · CC BY 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anton_Heyboer_(1974).jpg

## About Anton Heijboer

Anton Heijboer (1924–2005), also catalogued as Anton Heyboer, was a Dutch painter and printmaker whose career is especially associated with postwar painting and graphic art. Museum and library records identify him as an artist working across painting, printmaking, and engraving, while collections at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, the National Gallery of Art, and the British Museum provide durable points of reference for researching his work. Collectors may encounter Heijboer through paintings, etchings, and other works on paper, with attribution often depending on signatures, edition information, provenance, and close examination of the object. His name can appear in auction records under either Heijboer or Heyboer, so both forms are useful when searching catalogues and comparable sales.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records for Anton Heijboer commonly include paintings, etchings, prints, and other works on paper. Records may also place related objects under broader fine-art, mixed-media, decorative-art, or editions categories. For a specific work, the relevant comparison set depends on the medium, support, dimensions, date, signature, edition details, condition, and attribution. A signed etching should therefore be compared with similar graphic works, while a painting should be assessed against paintings with comparable scale, period, subject, and condition. Museum and library records support identifying Heijboer as both a painter and printmaker, and auction listings may use the spelling Anton Heyboer.

## Market and appraisal context

Heijboer appraisal research should begin with works that closely match the object in medium, dimensions, date, condition, and attribution status. Signature or inscription details, edition information for prints, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can materially affect interpretation. Public auction records provide useful comparables, but they do not represent every private transaction and may contain incomplete or changing attribution data. Appraisily’s available market record includes paintings, prints and works on paper, along with broader mixed-media and decorative-art categories. Compare like with like, check whether reported totals include buyer premiums or fees, and treat observed auction results as market evidence rather than a guaranteed value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321632
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/29806300/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2627
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anton-heyboer-1281
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG31444
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/08561999X
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029890
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.17368.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/anton-heijboer/