Bob Boyer Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Bob Boyer Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 24, 2023
Bob (Robert) Boyer, The Grass Road
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Bob (Robert) Boyer The Grass Road 1997 oil on canvas 29 h x 43.125 w in (74 x 110 cm) Signed to lower right 'Boyer'. Signed, titled and dated to verso 'The Grass Road Bob Boyer 1997'. Provenance: Estate of Peter Jennings This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Apr. 23, 2023
BOB BOYER - There's a Blue Bird in My Sky
Est: $1,400 - $1,800
BOB BOYER (Canadian/Metis/Cree, 1948-2004) "There's a Blue Bird in My Sky" 1983 - Watercolour on paper. Signed, titled and dated verso. Framed. 27.25 x 19.5 inches (paper), 32.5 x 24.5 inches (frame). Dedicated 'For Carol' lower right. From the estate of Carol Cardinal (Regina). Excellent condition.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Apr. 23, 2023
BOB BOYER - We Have to Know
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
BOB BOYER (Canadian/Metis/Cree, 1948-2004) "We Have to Know" 1997 - Mixed media on card stock. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. Framed. 19 x 15 inches (image), 27 x 22.5 inches (frame). From the estate of Carol Cardinal (Regina). Good condition, some craqueleure noted, and pin holes around the edge.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Apr. 23, 2023
BOB BOYER - Mexican Traveler
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
BOB BOYER (Canadian/Metis/Cree, 1948-2004) "Mexican Traveler" 1995 - Fresco on panel. Signed, titled and dated verso. Framed. Assiniboia Gallery (Regina) label verso, noted as 'Collection of Carolyn Cardinal' on exhibition label verso. 16.75 x 14.25 inches (image), 17 x 15 inches (frame). From the estate of Carol Cardinal (Regina). Good condition, with what appears to be water damage in a 2-inch square section lower left.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Apr. 23, 2023
BOB BOYER - Gobi
Est: $3,500 - $5,000
BOB BOYER (Canadian/Metis/Cree, 1948-2004) "Gobi" 1996 - Oil on canvas. Signed, titled and dated verso, titled and dated on gallery label verso. Framed. 32 x 46 inches (image), 33.5 x 47.5 (frame). Assiniboia Gallery (Regina) label verso. From the estate of Carol Cardinal (Regina). Very good condition, minor craquelure noted.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Nov. 14, 2020
BOB BOYER - In the Summer Palace With Julie and Asia
Est: $1,600 - $2,000
BOB BOYER (Canadian, 1948-2004) "In the Summer Palace With Julie and Asia" 1997 - Oil on canvas. Signed, titled and dated verso, framed. 16 x 20 in.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Oct. 27, 2018
BOB BOYER - Design For Leona
Est: $750 - $1,000
BOB BOYER (Canadian, 1948-2004) "Design For Leona" 1986 - Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left, framed. 22 x 17 in.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Oct. 21, 2017
BOB BOYER - Red Earth and Red Coats
Est: $1,800 - $2,400
BOB BOYER (Canadian, 1948-2004) "Red Earth and Red Coats" 1997 - Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and titled verso, framed. 30 x 36 in.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Oct. 18, 2017
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - ), Untitled, mixed media (two panels), 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm); 2 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (6.4 x 29.2 cm)
Est: $900 - $1,200
unsigned
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Oct. 18, 2017
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - 2004), Tying Tobacco, oil on panel, 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
signed and titled on verso, spring 1991
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Oct. 18, 2017
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - 2004), In the middle of the Shell, oil on canvas, 42 x 44 in. (106.7 x 111.8 cm)
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
signed, 1997
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Oct. 18, 2017
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - 2004), Mackay Crossing, fresco on wall board, 44 x 72 in. (111.8 x 182.9 cm)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
signed, 1999
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Oct. 18, 2017
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - 2004), Once in a Blue Moon You See a Buffalo in the Sky, pastel (diptych), each panel: 44 x 30 in. (111....
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - 2004), Once in a Blue Moon You See a Buffalo in the Sky, pastel (diptych), each panel: 44 x 30 in. (111....
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Oct. 18, 2017
Bob Boyer, Canadian (1948 - ), Lets Blame it on the Rain, oil on canvas, 30 x 48 in. (76.2 x 121.9 cm)
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
signed, titled, and dated 2003 on verso
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Nov. 22, 2016
BOB BOYER (1948-2004), DROPPING ATOM BOMBS, mixed media on blanket, 91" x 69.75" — 231.1 x 177.2 cm.
Est: $4,000 - $5,000
BOB BOYER (1948-2004)DROPPING ATOM BOMBSmixed media on blanket, signed, titled (faded) and dated Spring ‘88 on the reverse91" x 69.75" — 231.1 x 177.2 cm.Provenance:Cineplex Odeon Corp., Head Office, 1988,Private Collection, Canada, 1990Literature:Lee-Ann Martin, Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work, MacKenize Art Gallery, 2008, exh. cat.Deidre Hanna, “Bob Boyer: Saskatchewan Artist’s Wonderfully Witty Blanket Paintings Weave Modernism with tradition,” NOW, 10-16 Nov 1994, 36 as quoted in Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work, pages 55 & 58Bob Boyer, letter to John Armstrong & Sarah Quinton, 19 July 1991, as quoted in Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work, page 37Robert Enright, “The Sky is the Limit: Conversations with First Nations Artists – Blanket Approval, the Art of Bob Boyer,” Border Crossing 11, (Dec 1992), page 54 as quoted in Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work, page 46Note:Bob Boyer is Métis with a cultural background influenced by the Assiniboine and Sioux. His works, broadly, speak to notions of a dual cultural perspective of his Native heritage and Western traditions of Abstract and Contemporary art. Though he worked in a variety of media throughout his career, Boyer is perhaps best known for his series of blanket paintings completed between 1983 and 1995. Boyer elected to use a blanket as his substrate rather than a traditional canvas to address the political issues of First Nations people. In January 1988, the winter preceding the creation of this work, Boyer delivered a presentation in conjunction with the exhibition, Bob Boyer: A Blanket Statement at the University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. Martin comments that blankets are symbolic of a gift that North American Aboriginal peoples hold in high regard. Boyer recounted to author Robert Enright, “I used to help my mother make quilts. Making quilts and giving blankets is important in Plains culture.” In a personal correspondence with John Armstrong & Sarah Quinton, Boyer also stated, “the blanket to me is a symbol of all things that are comforting in the world.” Thus, these works juxtapose the traditional sense of the domesticity associated with a blanket against a vocabulary of modern Western techniques. Reductive and hard-edged geometry – motifs borrowed from the Aboriginal peoples of the northern Plains – in this work are composed with blazing hues on a subversively soft and yielding material which turns the blanket, an object from which one should derive comfort, into something aggressive.The incongruity of its formal qualities reinforces the already compromised idea of the blanket as it relates to Aboriginal populations, which were decimated in alarming numbers by the deliberate spread of the Smallpox virus using contaminated blankets in the nineteenth century.“In 1994, Deidre Hanna remarked that these blanket paintings expand ‘the realm of post-painterly abstraction while acting as an in-your-face reminder of the devastation wrought among Canada’s First Nations. It’s this kind of turn that has earned Boyer a place in most of Canada’s public collections.’”Estimate: $4,000—5,000
Waddington's
Aug. 27, 2015
ROBERT (BOB) BOYER (NATIVE CANADIAN, 1948-2004), FOOLS WILL NOT SEE, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS (OIL, FEATHERS, RIBBONS); SIGNED, TITLED AND DATED APRIL/MAY 1980 VERSO, 60" x 42" — 152.4 x 106.7 cm.
Est: -
ROBERT (BOB) BOYER (NATIVE CANADIAN, 1948-2004)FOOLS WILL NOT SEE, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS (OIL, FEATHERS, RIBBONS); SIGNED, TITLED AND DATED APRIL/MAY 1980 VERSO60" x 42" — 152.4 x 106.7 cm.Estimate: $2,000—2,500
Waddington's
Jan. 27, 2015
Bob Boyer (Canadian, 1948-2004) RED HORSE Signed l.r., gouache 30 x 40cm
Est: £100 - £200
Bob Boyer (Canadian, 1948-2004) RED HORSE Signed l.r., gouache 30 x 40cm
Sworders
Oct. 02, 2012
Robert Boyer, American, 20th c, o/c, Wooded Scene, signed and dated 1959, 34" x 18"
Est: $100 - $200
Robert Boyer, American, 20th c, o/c, Wooded Scene, signed and dated 1959, 34" x 18"
William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
Sep. 27, 2012
Bob Boyer 1948 - 2004 Canadian acrylic on blanket The Sky Shone Red That Night We Went to Fight That War
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Bob Boyer 1948 - 2004 Canadian acrylic on blanket The Sky Shone Red That Night We Went to Fight That War 70 x 42 inches 177.8 x 106.7 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated fall 1988 Provenance:Corporate Collection, Ontario Private Collection, Toronto ""Bob Boyer: His Life's Work,"" a touring retrospective exhibition organized by Regina's MacKenzie Art Gallery, is on view at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa until November 4. A virtual tour of this exhibition is also viewable on the internet.
Heffel
Sep. 30, 2010
Bob Boyer 1948 - 2004 Canadian oil on plywood Walk
Est: $1,600 - $2,400
Bob Boyer 1948 - 2004 Canadian oil on plywood Walk by the Water Edge Woman 15 x 11 1/2 inches 38.1 x 29.2 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1992 Provenance:Private Collection, Regina
Heffel
Mar. 25, 2010
Bob Boyer 1948 - 2004 Canadian acrylic on blanket Custer Gets a History Lesson
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
Bob Boyer 1948 - 2004 Canadian acrylic on blanket Custer Gets a History Lesson 103 x 76 inches 261.6 x 193 centimeters Literature:Miguel Cervantes and Charles Merewether, Mito y Magica en América: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, 1991, reproduced page 47, listed page 377 Lee-Ann Martin, Bob Boyer: His Life's Work, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2008, page 34 Provenance:Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited:Vancouver Art Gallery, Beyond History, 1989 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mito y Magica en América: Los Ochenta, Monterrey, Mexico, June - September, 1991, catalogue #39 Bob Boyer's works highlight the importance of the transference of cultural traditions, a result of the complexity of our modern world. In an attempt to find an alternative to traditional canvas painting, Boyer began to explore painting on flannel blankets. This decision resulted in what Lee-Ann Martin calls "the perfect portable art work", possessing an element of practicality not often seen in large works of art. This element acknowledges the tradition of giving blankets as gifts in Aboriginal cultures, as well as the richly painted tipi - an important facet of Native traditions. His witty, often irreverent titles incorporate both the negative and positive aspects of our shared, and often strained North American history. Boyer's blankets thus present intriguing polarities to the audience - as Martin notes, they are political yet narrative, abstract yet traditional. This exploration of identity is now a common element across all cultures.
Heffel