Robert Genn
(1936 - 2014)
Previously Sold Works
ROBERT GENN
Long Point
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
ROBERT GENN
Islet Point
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: October 25th 2022
ROBERT GENN
High Water, Caribou Lake
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated “Nov 6, 1969” on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,400.00
Price Realized $2,360.00
Sale date: April 14th 2020
ROBERT GENN
Anderson Lake
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
10 x 12 in ( 25.4 x 30.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,280.00
Sale date: September 24th 2024
ROBERT GENN
Brooks Offskip
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed “Brooks Peninsula, W.C., Van Is.” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,070.00
Sale date: December 6th 2017
ROBERT GENN
Moose Lake, Morning
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $2,124.00
Sale date: April 18th 2018
ROBERT GENN
Gulf Group
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated 1970 on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,920.00
Sale date: October 25th 2022
ROBERT GENN
Hardy Pattern
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,920.00
Sale date: October 25th 2022
ROBERT GENN
Edge: Buckner’s Farm, Delta, B.C.
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated April 1974 on the reverse
16.5 x 20 ins ( 41.9 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,770.00
Sale date: April 26th 2019
ROBERT GENN
Gold and Gray
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed on the reverse
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,770.00
Sale date: October 22nd 2019
ROBERT GENN
January Group
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1976 on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,800.00
Sale date: April 19th 2022
ROBERT GENN
Coast Sunset
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,652.00
Sale date: November 28th 2018
ROBERT GENN
January, Nose Point
oil on panel
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,680.00
Sale date: October 25th 2022
ROBERT GENN
Edge, Saltspring
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated “September 2, 1981” on the reverse
11 x 14 ins ( 27.9 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,680.00
Sale date: February 27th 2024
ROBERT GENN
Caribou Copse
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1970 on the reverse
6 x 9 ins ( 15.2 x 22.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,680.00
Sale date: February 27th 2024
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Robert Genn Biography
(1936 - 2014)
Born in Victoria, BC in 1936, he attended Victoria College and the University of British Columbia and in 1958 the Art Centre School in Los Angeles. A painter of landscapes and genre subjects of British Columbia, especially the native peoples and the art and villages of the Northwest Coast but also the North American Indian culture in general. He painted the interior of BC including the Kootenay and Slocan districts, Caribou North, Skeena Valley, also Queen Charlotte Islands, the highlands of Vancouver Island and in eastern Canada he painted in Northern Ontario, Algonquin Park, also New Mexico and elsewhere. During 1973 he used an Alpine trail bike to reach areas above the snow line.
Genn carried on the tradition of the Canadian Landscape with fresh, painterly techniques and strong design, often exhibiting his devotion to painting by reducing grand themes to small panels painted in the wilderness he loved. He painted mainly in oils, acrylics and his drawings have also been reproduced by lithographs. Viewing Genn’s work in 1976 Victor Arcega noted, “He still keeps within the bounds of a happy medium between literal and painterly imagery… In addition to his obvious technical ability, Genn is a sensitive and powerful painter. His view of reality, although somewhat romantic and very therapeutic, is physically intense.” Genn’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries across North America and he is represented in numerous private collections.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979