Robert Donald Bruce: career timeline

· Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 17 of 23 lots (73% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Robert Donald Bruce: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1940s	5	5	$822Sign up	Oil
1950s	2	2	$495Sign up	Drawing
1960s	5	5	$242Sign up	Print (other)
1970s	4	4	$183Sign up	Print (other)

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1940s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $822Sign up
Average: $2.6kSign up
Typical size: 21.5 × 25 in (55 × 64 cm)
Mediums: Oil (3), Drawing (1), Pastel (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1941 Untitled - Manitoba Landscape$387Sign up · sold 2×
1943 Untitled - Soldiers on Plane$822Sign up
1943 Untitled - Paratrooper Getting Ready to Jump$2.4kSign up
1945 Hitching Up I$379Sign up
1945 Untitled - Moving Barrels$8.8kSign up

1950s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $495Sign up
Average: $495Sign up
Typical size: 24 × 22 in (61 × 56 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (1), Oil (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1957 Untitled - Abstract Landscape$121Sign up
1959 Winnipeg City Hall$869Sign up

1960s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $242Sign up
Average: $304Sign up
Typical size: 17.5 × 23.5 in (44 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Print (other) (2), Drawing (1), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1970s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $183Sign up
Average: $241Sign up
Typical size: 25 × 26 in (64 × 66 cm)
Mediums: Print (other) (4)
Subjects: —

1974 Tourists$163Sign up
1976 Untitled - The Guitarist$203Sign up
1978 Sunday Morning$163Sign up
1978 Lower Invertebrate$435Sign up

Creation date not recorded

6 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 1990s 1 work

Sold: 0 of 1
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 10 × 15 in (25 × 38 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (1)
Subjects: —

sold 1996 The ProspectorUnsold

Undated, sold in the 2000s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $290Sign up
Average: $338Sign up
Typical size: 14 × 17 in (36 × 43 cm)
Mediums: Print (other) (3)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

sold 2004 Untitled - Two Figures$290Sign up
sold 2005 Untitled - Figures$555Sign up
sold 2009 Lovers$169Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $275Sign up
Average: $275Sign up
Typical size: 22.5 × 29.5 in (57 × 74 cm)
Mediums: Print (other) (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2010 Three Women$275Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $379Sign up
Average: $379Sign up
Typical size: 21.5 × 13 in (55 × 33 cm)
Mediums: Pastel (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2024 Hitching Up II$379Sign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Robert Donald Bruce auction results →