# Bob Stanley artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:40:07.443Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1932-01-03
- Death date: 1997-11-15
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Pop art
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and graphic art, Painting developed from photographic imagery

## Portrait

![Bob Stanley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bob_Stanley_and_Andy_Warhol.jpg/1280px-Bob_Stanley_and_Andy_Warhol.jpg)
Marylin Stanley · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bob_Stanley_and_Andy_Warhol.jpg

## About Bob Stanley

Bob Stanley (1932–1997), also catalogued as Robert Stanley, was an American painter and graphic artist associated with Pop art. Collected references link him particularly with printmaking and with paintings developed from photographic imagery. This combination places his work within a postwar context in which artists transformed camera-based and mass-media source material through painting and graphic processes. Collectors may encounter his name on prints and other graphic works as well as paintings, making medium and production method important to accurate entity matching. Institutional records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and RKD help distinguish this artist from other people named Bob Stanley. The source pack supports his basic identity, lifespan, nationality, and Pop-art context, while detailed exhibition history, chronology, named series, and catalogue-level descriptions remain limited.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under this artist record may include prints and other graphic works, as well as paintings. The collected German-language biography places particular emphasis on his print output, while the French-language biography describes paintings developed from photographs. No reliable details about named series, specific print techniques, edition sizes, recurring subjects, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other work types were available in the collected pack.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that an object belongs to the American Pop artist Bob Stanley rather than another person with the same name. For this artist, the distinction between a painting and a print or other graphic work is important because the collected sources identify both practices and emphasize his printmaking. The available pack does not supply lot-level metadata, realized-price details, edition information, signature guidance, provenance, condition reports, or catalogue entries, so it does not support an artist-specific price conclusion. When public auction records are available, the most relevant comparisons are records matched to the same artist identity, work type, and medium, with object-specific evidence reviewed separately.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2158858
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005542
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5603
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.10496.html
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stanley_(Maler)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stanley_(peintre)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bob-stanley/