# Bruno Bobak artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bruno-bobak/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:52:39.950Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1923-12-27
- Death date: 2012-09-24
- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Watercolour painting, Painting, Woodcut

## Portrait

![Bruno Bobak](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/George_Campbell_Tinning_%28left%29%2C_war_artist%2C_at_art_exhibition.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Campbell_Tinning_(left),_war_artist,_at_art_exhibition.jpg

## About Bruno Bobak

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source limitations and unresolved identity or object-level questions are retained rather than converted into unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2926650
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012180
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95755391/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82274703
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bobak
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bobak
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Campbell_Tinning_(left),_war_artist,_at_art_exhibition.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruno_Bobak_-_DENTAL_TREATMENT,_NO.2_(CWM_19710261-1469).jpeg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruno_Bobak_-_PUTTING_A_LINE_THROUGH_TO_HEADQUARTERS_(CWM_19710261-1495).jpeg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruno_Bobak_-_Tank_Convoy_(CWM_19710261-1536).jpeg