Tobias Schneebaum Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Tobias Schneebaum Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 13, 2022
Tobias SCHNEEBAUM: Abstract - Oil on Masonite
Est: $800 - $1,200
Tobias Schneebaum (American, 1922-2005) oil on masonite abstract composition, signed lower right. Together with a signed book "Keep The River on Your Right". Copyright 1969, First Printing, Grove Press, Inc., New York, and an article from the NY Times, by Daniel Zalewski, dated March 25, 2001. [30 3/4" H x 49" W].
Roland Auctions NY
Nov. 14, 2021
Tobias Schneebaum (NY,1922-2005) watercolor painting
Est: $500 - $650
ARTIST: Tobias Schneebaum (New York, 1922 - 2005) NAME: Bird YEAR: 1958 MEDIUM: watercolor and pastel on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. Some scratches to frame. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 10 inches / 33 x 25 cm FRAME SIZE: 18 x 15 inches / 45 x 38 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117994 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, then known as Irian Jaya.Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from Poland in New York City. Schneebaum's father Jacob (known as Yankle) emigrated to America from Poland just before World War I, in which he served in order to get U.S. citizenship. His mother, Riftcha, emigrated in 1913.He was born as Toivele Schneebaum on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in Brooklyn. A school official later changed this to Theodore Schneebaum, by which he was known by friends and family throughout his childhood. (He later changed his name legally to Tobias.) In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art. During World War II he served as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army.In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right.Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's Disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.Schneebaum received a Master of Arts in anthropology at The New School in New York City, and another from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Nov. 14, 2021
Tobias Schneebaum (NY,1922-2005) watercolor painting
Est: $525 - $650
ARTIST: Tobias Schneebaum (New York, 1922 - 2005) NAME: Olive Trees, Greece YEAR: 1960 MEDIUM: watercolor and gouache on paper CONDITION: Minor age toning. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 8 x 11 inches / 20 x 27 cm FRAME SIZE: 13 x 17 inches / 33 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117993 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, then known as Irian Jaya.Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from Poland in New York City. Schneebaum's father Jacob (known as Yankle) emigrated to America from Poland just before World War I, in which he served in order to get U.S. citizenship. His mother, Riftcha, emigrated in 1913.He was born as Toivele Schneebaum on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in Brooklyn. A school official later changed this to Theodore Schneebaum, by which he was known by friends and family throughout his childhood. (He later changed his name legally to Tobias.) In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art. During World War II he served as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army.In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right.Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's Disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.Schneebaum received a Master of Arts in anthropology at The New School in New York City, and another from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Aug. 07, 2021
Tobias Schneebaum (NY,1922-2005) watercolor painting
Est: $525 - $675
ARTIST: Tobias Schneebaum (New York, 1922 - 2005) NAME: Bird YEAR: 1958 MEDIUM: watercolor and pastel on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. Some scratches to frame. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 10 inches / 33 x 25 cm FRAME SIZE: 18 x 15 inches / 45 x 38 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117994 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, then known as Irian Jaya.Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from Poland in New York City. Schneebaum's father Jacob (known as Yankle) emigrated to America from Poland just before World War I, in which he served in order to get U.S. citizenship. His mother, Riftcha, emigrated in 1913.He was born as Toivele Schneebaum on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in Brooklyn. A school official later changed this to Theodore Schneebaum, by which he was known by friends and family throughout his childhood. (He later changed his name legally to Tobias.) In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art. During World War II he served as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army.In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right.Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's Disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.Schneebaum received a Master of Arts in anthropology at The New School in New York City, and another from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Aug. 07, 2021
Tobias Schneebaum (NY,1922-2005) watercolor painting
Est: $525 - $675
ARTIST: Tobias Schneebaum (New York, 1922 - 2005) NAME: Olive Trees, Greece YEAR: 1960 MEDIUM: watercolor and gouache on paper CONDITION: Minor age toning. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 8 x 11 inches / 20 x 27 cm FRAME SIZE: 13 x 17 inches / 33 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117993 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, then known as Irian Jaya.Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from Poland in New York City. Schneebaum's father Jacob (known as Yankle) emigrated to America from Poland just before World War I, in which he served in order to get U.S. citizenship. His mother, Riftcha, emigrated in 1913.He was born as Toivele Schneebaum on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in Brooklyn. A school official later changed this to Theodore Schneebaum, by which he was known by friends and family throughout his childhood. (He later changed his name legally to Tobias.) In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art. During World War II he served as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army.In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right.Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's Disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.Schneebaum received a Master of Arts in anthropology at The New School in New York City, and another from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
May. 09, 2021
Tobias Schneebaum (NY,1922-2005) watercolor painting
Est: $525 - $675
ARTIST: Tobias Schneebaum (New York, 1922 - 2005) NAME: Bird YEAR: 1958 MEDIUM: watercolor and pastel on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. Some scratches to frame. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 10 inches / 33 x 25 cm FRAME SIZE: 18 x 15 inches / 45 x 38 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117994 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, then known as Irian Jaya.Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from Poland in New York City. Schneebaum's father Jacob (known as Yankle) emigrated to America from Poland just before World War I, in which he served in order to get U.S. citizenship. His mother, Riftcha, emigrated in 1913.He was born as Toivele Schneebaum on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in Brooklyn. A school official later changed this to Theodore Schneebaum, by which he was known by friends and family throughout his childhood. (He later changed his name legally to Tobias.) In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art. During World War II he served as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army.In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right.Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's Disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.Schneebaum received a Master of Arts in anthropology at The New School in New York City, and another from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
May. 09, 2021
Tobias Schneebaum (NY,1922-2005) watercolor painting
Est: $525 - $675
ARTIST: Tobias Schneebaum (New York, 1922 - 2005) NAME: Olive Trees, Greece YEAR: 1960 MEDIUM: watercolor and gouache on paper CONDITION: Minor age toning. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 8 x 11 inches / 20 x 27 cm FRAME SIZE: 13 x 17 inches / 33 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117993 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, then known as Irian Jaya.Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from Poland in New York City. Schneebaum's father Jacob (known as Yankle) emigrated to America from Poland just before World War I, in which he served in order to get U.S. citizenship. His mother, Riftcha, emigrated in 1913.He was born as Toivele Schneebaum on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in Brooklyn. A school official later changed this to Theodore Schneebaum, by which he was known by friends and family throughout his childhood. (He later changed his name legally to Tobias.) In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art. During World War II he served as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army.In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right.Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's Disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.Schneebaum received a Master of Arts in anthropology at The New School in New York City, and another from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Aug. 09, 2020
Tobias Schneebaum (NY. 1922-2005) Lithograph
Est: $100 - $200
Tropical river bank landscape. Pencil signed and numbered 34/ 105 lower right. Arches watermark to paper. Schneebaum was a noted writer, artist, anthropologist, AIDS activist, and the subject of "Keep the River on Your Right", a 2000 documentary. 23" x 29" unframed.
District Auction
Mar. 25, 2017
Tobias Schneebaum portfolio of 12 silkscreens
Est: $600 - $1,200
Tobias Schneebaum (American 1922-2005)- ''The Girl in the Abstract Bed''- portfolio of 12 silkscreens, 1954, published by Tiber Press Publishers, New York, NY, separate piece of paper included in portfolio with signatures of the author and artist, original presentation folder (worn), browned edges of prints, heavily browned on text pages, adhesive stains on the verso of the prints. 12 3/4 x 9 3/4'' (sheet), portfolio case 17 1/4 x 11 1/8 x 1/2''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Dec. 10, 2016
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (American 1922-2005)
Est: $400 - $600
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (American 1922-2005), ''Jungle,'' oil on canvas, signed and dated 57 lower right, bears label from Peridot Gallery and partial label from the Art Lending Library of MOMA to verso. Canvas 50''h, 30''w.
South Bay Auctions Inc
Sep. 13, 2014
Tobias Schneebaum, (American, 1922-2005), Totem, 1953, oil on masonite, 70" x 48"
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Tobias Schneebaum (American, 1922-2005) Totem, 1953 oil on masonite signed and dated lower right, titled and dated on verso 70" x 48" Provenance: McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (label on verso)
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Feb. 13, 2009
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM, (AMERICAN B. 1921), JUNGLE - 1957
Est: $400 - $600
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (american b. 1921) JUNGLE - 1957 Signed, oil on canvas 50 x 30 in. provenance: Peridot Gallery, New York, New York.
Freeman's | Hindman
Jan. 01, 2009
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (1922-2005)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (1922-2005) Oil on canvas. "Desert Sky (Zouila)." Signed, dated 65 on verso, titled on the stretcher. Peridot Gallery, NY label on verso. 50 x 60."
Stamford Auction
Dec. 06, 2008
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (1922-2005): FIGURAL GROUP, 1953
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (1922-2005): FIGURAL GROUP, 1953
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