# Roland Gissing artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/roland-gissing/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:27:28.161Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting

## About Roland Gissing

Roland Gissing is identified by Wikidata and VIAF as a Canadian artist. The collected biographical material more specifically describes him as a painter whose subject was the western Canadian landscape. This landscape focus is the clearest documented context for understanding his work, although the available sources do not establish his life dates, training, professional affiliations, or relationship to a named movement. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Gissing through landscape paintings associated with western Canada. Attribution should remain tied to evidence on the individual object, since the present source pack does not document signature forms, preferred supports, a catalogue raisonné, or a verified chronology. These gaps do not negate the authority-file identity, but they limit how precisely particular works can be dated or situated within his career.

## Common works and media

The supported work type is painting, particularly landscapes depicting western Canada. The source pack does not establish whether oil, watercolor, gouache, drawing, printmaking, or another specific medium predominates, and it provides no evidence for editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily records an auction-price page for Roland Gissing, but the collected source response does not expose the underlying lots or their results. The available evidence therefore supports describing landscape paintings as the principal auction context, but it does not support a price trend, typical range, or claim about scarcity. A useful appraisal should compare the specific object with verified public sale records when available and keep identity, attribution, and object-level evidence distinct from general artist biography. Conclusions should remain provisional until the work and relevant comparable lots can be examined.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Roland Gissing, the collected identity evidence is stronger than the currently exposed market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52156843
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/32798655/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92103555
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Gissing
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/roland-gissing/