Robert Kipniss Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert Kipniss Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 29, 2026
(2) Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Prints
Est: $100 - $200
(2) Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Prints. A monochrome interior view depicting a window pane looking out toward a stylized tree, with a small potted plant resting on the sill. Numbered 184/250 in lower left. Signed in lower right. A muted architectural landscape featuring crisp light and shadows cast across geometric house structures and rooftop walls under a soft sky. Artist proof in lower left. Signed in lower right. Largest Overall Size: 16 x 17 1/4 in. Largest Sight Size: 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
Sarasota Estate Auction
Aug. 29, 2026
Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Limited Edition Lithograph Print "Souvenirs"
Est: $100 - $200
Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Limited Edition Lithograph Print "Souvenirs". Botanical print featuring a soft-focused, monochromatic composition of layered leaves and various floral forms, including large dahlias and spherical buds, set within a classic gold-toned frame. Signed lower right. Numbered 6/150. Framed. Overall Size: 23 x 19 in. Sight Size: 14 1/2 x 11 in. Robert Kipniss (1931–2025) was an American painter and printmaker celebrated for his quiet, atmospheric landscapes and introspective imagery. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1931, Kipniss developed a distinctive style marked by muted colors, sparse compositions, and contemplative scenes of trees, fields, interiors, and shadowed architecture. Working in painting, lithography, mezzotint, and etching, he became known for conveying solitude and emotional stillness through subtle tonal harmonies and carefully balanced forms. His work was exhibited widely in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, earning recognition for its poetic minimalism and meditative quality. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Kipniss established himself as a major figure in contemporary American realism and printmaking.
Sarasota Estate Auction
Aug. 13, 2026
Robert Kipniss Signed Lithograph, Trial Proof, 1969
Est: $100 - $200
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931). Lithograph on wove paper, atmospheric landscape with trees and a rooftop. Pencil-signed and dated Kipniss June 5 69 lower right. Inscribed Trial proof lower left. 20" x 16" image size, 30" x 23 1/2" sheet size. Location: CR Drawer 4
Willow Auction House
Jun. 30, 2026
Robert Kipniss, Landscape
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Robert Kipniss Landscape oil on canvas 25.125 h x 30.125 w in (64 x 77 cm) Signed to lower left edge 'Kipniss'. Provenance: Merrill Chase Galleries, Oakbrook, IL | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Jun. 14, 2026
Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Limited Edition Lithograph Print "Souvenirs"
Est: $200 - $300
Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Limited Edition Lithograph Print "Souvenirs". Botanical print featuring a soft-focused, monochromatic composition of layered leaves and various floral forms, including large dahlias and spherical buds, set within a classic gold-toned frame. Signed lower right. Numbered 6/150. Framed. Overall Size: 23 x 19 in. Sight Size: 14 1/2 x 11 in. Robert Kipniss (1931–2025) was an American painter and printmaker celebrated for his quiet, atmospheric landscapes and introspective imagery. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1931, Kipniss developed a distinctive style marked by muted colors, sparse compositions, and contemplative scenes of trees, fields, interiors, and shadowed architecture. Working in painting, lithography, mezzotint, and etching, he became known for conveying solitude and emotional stillness through subtle tonal harmonies and carefully balanced forms. His work was exhibited widely in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, earning recognition for its poetic minimalism and meditative quality. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Kipniss established himself as a major figure in contemporary American realism and printmaking.
Sarasota Estate Auction
Jun. 14, 2026
Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Artist's Proof Lithograph Print Monochrome Interior Scene "The Other Room"
Est: $200 - $300
Robert Kipniss (1931-2025) American, Artist's Proof Lithograph Print Monochrome Interior Scene "The Other Room", muted interior scene featuring the back of a white chair positioned in front of a leafy potted plant, with a glimpse of a small house and trees visible through a nearby window. Signed lower right. Overall Size: 22 x 17 in. Sight Size: 14 1/2 x 10 in. Robert Kipniss (1931–2025) was an American painter and printmaker celebrated for his quiet, atmospheric landscapes and introspective imagery. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1931, Kipniss developed a distinctive style marked by muted colors, sparse compositions, and contemplative scenes of trees, fields, interiors, and shadowed architecture. Working in painting, lithography, mezzotint, and etching, he became known for conveying solitude and emotional stillness through subtle tonal harmonies and carefully balanced forms. His work was exhibited widely in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, earning recognition for its poetic minimalism and meditative quality. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Kipniss established himself as a major figure in contemporary American realism and printmaking.
Sarasota Estate Auction
Jun. 09, 2026
Robert Kipniss (American, 1931) Shadows and Porch Lithograph, Signed l.r. and Numbered 66/90 l.l., Frame Size: 22 x 23 in. (55.9 x 58.4 cm.)
Est: $300 - $400
Robert Kipniss (American, 1931) Shadows and Porch Lithograph, Signed l.r. and Numbered 66/90 l.l., With certificate of authenticity from Park West.
Weschler's
Jun. 09, 2026
Robert Kipniss (American, 1931) Twilight Mezzotint Signed l.r. and Numbered 47/75 l.l., Frame Size: 19 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (50.2 x 47.6 cm.)
Est: $200 - $400
Robert Kipniss (American, 1931) Twilight Mezzotint Signed l.r. and Numbered 47/75 l.l., With certificate of authenticity from Park West.
Weschler's
Jun. 09, 2026
Robert Kipniss, American 20th C, Upstate, Mezzotint, Image Height: 17 1/2 in, Image Width: 15 3/4 in, Framed Height: 25 1/2 in, Framed Width: 25 in, Framed Depth: 1 1/4 in
Est: $200 - $400
Robert Kipniss American, 20th C Upstate Mezzotint Of an edition, Numbered 58/120. Framed under glass. Pencil signed.
Bunch Auctions
Jun. 06, 2026
Robert KIPNISS: "Young Birch".
Est: $70 - $100
Robert KIPNISS (American, born 1931): "Young Birch". Lithograph on wove paper. One of 25 artist's proofs. Signed, annotated, and numbered in Roman numerals in pencil. Image size: 10 x 13 inches. Sheet size: 14 1/2 x 18 inches.
Armstrong Fine Art
May. 20, 2026
Robert Kipniss Reflections of a Pale Tree Lithograph Signed
Est: $80 - $150
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), Reflections of a Pale Tree, c. 1980, lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 24/120 at lower margin, image size 17.75 x 15.25 inches, framed 27.5 x 24.75 inches.
Concept Art Gallery
May. 09, 2026
Robert Kipniss (1931 New York – lebt in Sharon)
Est: €50 - €100
Bare Trees. 1970. Lithografie auf Bütten. Unterhalb der Darstellung signiert, betitelt, datiert und nummeriert: Kipniss, Bare Trees, 1970, 14/90. Passepartoutausschnitt: 39,2 x 29,5 cm. Unter Passepartout und unter Glas gerahmt: 59 x 49 cm.
AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald
May. 05, 2026
R. Kipniss Country Landscape Scene
Est: $100 - $10,000
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931), oil on canvas of somewhat surrealistic country scene with barn, signed lower left. Frame size: 27 1/2" high, 31 1/2" wide. Image sight: 19 1/2" high, 23 5/8" wide. Soiling, scuffs, craquelure; frame wear.
Schwenke Auctioneers
Apr. 16, 2026
Three Framed Limited Edition Lithographs by Robert Kipniss
Est: $750 - $1,250
Three lovely framed duochromatic lithographs by Robert Kipniss (B.1931) 'Morning Light', 29/150 'Autumn Breeze, 19/150, and another Untitled, 127/150, 10.5" X 9" all signed in pencil lower right.
Embassy Auctions International
Apr. 13, 2026
ROBERT KIPNISS MEZZOTINT
Est: -
ROBERT KIPNISS MEZZOTINT
O'Gallerie
Mar. 21, 2026
First Shadows, Robert Kipniss Lithograph.
Est: $100 - $200
Artist(s): Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) Medium: Color lithograph. Signature(s): Pencil signed and numbered (108/250) in its lower margin. Paperwork/Provenance: Comes with a certificate of authenticity from Merrill Chase Galleries. Condition: The sheet has slipped slightly in its frame, and shows minor signs of toning. The frame's joints are separating. Measurement(s): 9" x 7" (sight), 16" x 14" (frame). In-house shipping is available. Please see our website regarding our in-house shipping procedures.
Direct Auction Galleries, Inc.
Mar. 21, 2026
Trees and Beyond, Lithograph by Robert Kipniss.
Est: $150 - $250
Artist(s): Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931). Medium: Lithograph. Signature(s): Pencil signed and numbered (138/150) in its lower margin. Paperwork/Provenance: Comes with a certificate of authenticity from Merrill Chase Galleries. Condition: Small imperfections to the lower and left margins. Joint separation and scuffs to the frame. Measurement(s): 15" x 18" (sight), 22 1/2" x 24 1/2" (frame). In-house shipping is available. Please see our website regarding our in-house shipping procedures.
Direct Auction Galleries, Inc.
Mar. 21, 2026
ROBERT KIPNISS (AMERICAN, B. 1931)
Est: $200 - $400
Robert Kipniss American, b. 1931 The Blue Stove Lithograph Signed in pencil lower right, numbered 17/120 lower left. Matted and framed.
Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers
Feb. 21, 2026
ROBERT KIPNISS (American b. 1931) "Early Light," 1974, 13 x 16 1/2 in. (33 x 41.9 cm.), Frame: 21 1/4 x 24 1/2 in. (54 x 62.2 cm.)
Est: $200 - $400
ROBERT KIPNISS (American b. 1931) "Early Light," 1974, lithograph on paper, signed lower right, "Kipniss," and numbered lower left, "AP VIII/XX."
Simpson Galleries, LLC
Feb. 15, 2026
ROBERT KIPNISS (AMERICAN, B. 1931), "LANDSCAPE HOUSE AND TREE," LATE 20TH CENTURY
Est: $100 - $200
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931), "Landscape House and Tree," Late 20th Century lithograph, signed in pencil "Kipniss" lower right and inscribed "Trial proof" lower left Dimensions: 16 in. x 17 in. (image); 23 3/4 in. x 24 1/2 in. (framed)
Locati LLC
Dec. 16, 2025
Robert Kipniss (b. 1931), "Morning Reflection"
Est: $300 - $500
Robert Kipniss (b. 1931) "Morning Reflection" Lithograph in dark green ink on paper Edition: 131/260 Signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: Kipniss
John Moran Auctioneers
Dec. 14, 2025
ROBERT KIPNISS (AMERICAN, B. 1931)
Est: $100 - $200
"Evening with White Porch" - Edition 2/150; 1996; Mezzotint; 9.75" x 7"; Signed "Kipniss" Lower Right; Framed (under glass).
James Cox Gallery
Dec. 13, 2025
Robert KIPNISS: Houses in Landscape - Print
Est: $150 - $250
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) framed and matted monochrome lithograph depicting a landscape with houses and trees, pencil signed lower right "Kipniss" and numbered lower left "7/100". Bearing Marion Art label to verso. [Sight: 16.75" H x 18.5" W; Frame: 24.25" H x 26" W]. Sheet buckling and toned, otherwise fine condition. Frame worn. Provenance: Macsteel International USA.
Roland Auctions NY
Dec. 03, 2025
KIPNISS, Robert (American, b. 1931). Shadowed Field, Rollin...
Est: $600 - $800
KIPNISS, Robert (American, b. 1931). Shadowed Field, Rolling Hills and Backyard II. Group of three prints. Lithographs on paper. Editions of 90, 250 and 250. Signed and numbered lower margin. Inscription on Shadowed Field, “To Donna and Jerry, Best Wishes, Robert Kipniss”. Rolling Hills has a COA from Merrill Chase Galleries. Not examined out of frame. Overall good condition. Largest 12 x 13”. Frame (glass) 21 ½ x 21”.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Nov. 12, 2025
Robert Kipniss 1973 orig litho Backyard III
Est: $200 - $400
Kipniss, Robert (American, born 1931), Backyard III, 1973, lithograph, 20 x 15 inches, pencil signed and numbered 17/20, framed measuring 28 x 23 inches,
Concept Art Gallery
Nov. 05, 2025
Robert Kipniss Lithograph SIGNED #46/260 [Trees]
Est: $75 - $150
Robert Kipniss (American, b.1931] lithograph pencil signed and numbered 46/260 below image. Image measures 14 x 11 in. Sheet measures 18 x 13 in. Print measures 18 x 13 in. in. for shipping purposes. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the conditions of aging. Photos may also act as a condition report. Please review all photos closely prior to bidding and ask further questions if so desired.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 02, 2025
Robert Kipniss (b.1931) Pencil Signed Lithograph, Barn and Trees, 152/260
Est: $200 - $400
Robert Kipniss (b. 1931) lithograph depicting a barn and trees in a landscape. Pencil signed and numbered 152/260. Image size approximately 15.5 x 19 inches.
Hughes Auctions
Oct. 29, 2025
Robert Kipniss, American (b. 1931), Balustrade, 1981, color lithograph, 22 3/4"H x 14"W (Sheet)
Est: $200 - $300
Robert Kipniss American, (b. 1931) Balustrade, 1981 color lithograph Pencil signed lower right, edition 81/120. Biography from the Archives of askART: Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms. Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In Kipniss' 1995 mezzotint*, Clear Vase and Landscape, with a foreground image of precisely leafy stalks, the vase holding them, nearly invisible in its transparency, suggests an almost Salvador Dali-like surrealist device. This central image dominates but seems to invite association with, and commentary from, the surrounding clumps and individual round-topped, yet cedar-like trees. His mezzzotint, For Stella," 1997, depicts a gently twisting, curving, pale and smoothly-barked foreground, leafless tree limb or trunk, like a female human body, suggesting weakness, fatigue, an inability to deal with the staccato background screen of textured bush that seems to uncomfortably impinge upon it. This print is arguably a metaphor for a delicate soul struggling to overcome the prickly difficulties of domineering life. The classic mezzotint process, invented in the middle of the 17th Century, is the reverse of most of the other print-making media, since the artist works from a black ground to increasingly lighter areas. The copper plate is first roughened by a "rocker," creating a burr over the entire surface (the more burr left intact, the more ink it holds, the darker the final finished print). The artist, Robert Kipniss, in this instance, gradually burnishes, smoothes down the burr in varying degrees to produce the gradations of lights and darks of the final design. The deepest darks in the final picture are those areas on the plate that have been little touched after the initial roughening. Mezzotint relies on shade and tone rather than outline for its effect, which fits the Kipniss style of atmospheric* masses of value. A recent oil painting by Robert Kipniss, Hillside Silhouettes, 2001, 40 x 29, is somewhat more complex in composition than many, with four cubically-constructed houses each set in their own zones, seemingly unrelated to one another, with receding hills and similarly isolated, increasingly misty trees beyond. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy of Design* in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998 Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 29, 2025
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) interior scene with chair and houseplant, lithograph 13"H x 14"W (sight), 22"H x 23"W (frame)
Est: $200 - $300
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) interior scene with chair and houseplant, lithograph Pencil signed lower right, artist's proof. Biography from the Archives of askART: Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms. Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In Kipniss' 1995 mezzotint*, Clear Vase and Landscape, with a foreground image of precisely leafy stalks, the vase holding them, nearly invisible in its transparency, suggests an almost Salvador Dali-like surrealist device. This central image dominates but seems to invite association with, and commentary from, the surrounding clumps and individual round-topped, yet cedar-like trees. His mezzzotint, For Stella," 1997, depicts a gently twisting, curving, pale and smoothly-barked foreground, leafless tree limb or trunk, like a female human body, suggesting weakness, fatigue, an inability to deal with the staccato background screen of textured bush that seems to uncomfortably impinge upon it. This print is arguably a metaphor for a delicate soul struggling to overcome the prickly difficulties of domineering life. The classic mezzotint process, invented in the middle of the 17th Century, is the reverse of most of the other print-making media, since the artist works from a black ground to increasingly lighter areas. The copper plate is first roughened by a "rocker," creating a burr over the entire surface (the more burr left intact, the more ink it holds, the darker the final finished print). The artist, Robert Kipniss, in this instance, gradually burnishes, smoothes down the burr in varying degrees to produce the gradations of lights and darks of the final design. The deepest darks in the final picture are those areas on the plate that have been little touched after the initial roughening. Mezzotint relies on shade and tone rather than outline for its effect, which fits the Kipniss style of atmospheric* masses of value. A recent oil painting by Robert Kipniss, Hillside Silhouettes, 2001, 40 x 29, is somewhat more complex in composition than many, with four cubically-constructed houses each set in their own zones, seemingly unrelated to one another, with receding hills and similarly isolated, increasingly misty trees beyond. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy of Design* in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998 Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 28, 2025
Robert Kipniss, Red Roof
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Robert Kipniss Red Roof oil on canvas 36 h x 34.125 w in (91 x 87 cm) Signed to lower right 'Kipniss'. Provenance: Merrill Chase Galleries, Chicago | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Oct. 23, 2025
ROBERT KIPNISS (New York, 1931-), Upward., Lithograph, 17.5" x 13.75". Framed 26.5" x 22".
Est: $250 - $350
ROBERT KIPNISS New York, 1931- Upward. Signed and numbered 13/175 in pencil lower margin.
Eldred's
Oct. 23, 2025
ROBERT KIPNISS (New York, 1931-), "Vase and Landscape" and "Two Windows"., Color mezzotints, 7.75" x 7". Framed 17.5" x 16".
Est: $500 - $700
ROBERT KIPNISS New York, 1931- "Vase and Landscape" and "Two Windows". Both one of 10 artist's proofs (aside from the edition of 75) with hand coloring by the artist. Both signed and inscribed "artist's proof" in pencil lower margin. Both with original bill of sale and certificates from Hexton Gallery, New York.
Eldred's
Oct. 19, 2025
Robert Kipniss (b. 1931) Signed A. P. Lithograph Window Sill
Est: $300 - $500
Signed A.P Lithograph by American painter and printmaker Robert Kipniss. Measuring: 24 by 25 inches overall, and 17 by 18 painting alone. Please see all images for condition. Size is measured and written on the back of the painting. The first size is the overall size, the second size is the image size. For detailed condition questions please email hello@curatedgallery.com. Domestic flat rate shipping with UPS or Fedex is set to $125 for this lot. Pick up at our 67 Guernsey street location is available 12-7pm for two weeks following the sale. Please call or email and let us know when you would like to pick up! Local delivery is also available around the area for large pieces or large orders. Flat rate delivery to NYC and Brooklyn available as well. Thank you and good luck.
Curated Gallery Auctions
Oct. 16, 2025
Robert Kipniss (American B.1931), "Field House", Depicting a small house beneath a dramatically bent tree, leaves blowing in the wind, in a stylized soft-focus, Oil on canvas, Signed lower right Kipness, 48" x 40", Pr...
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Robert Kipniss (American B.1931) "Field House" Depicting a small house beneath a dramatically bent tree, leaves blowing in the wind, in a stylized soft-focus Oil on canvas Signed lower right Kipness 48" x 40" Provenance: Far Gallery, Madison Ave, New York
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 05, 2025
ROBERT KIPNISS "Hillside with Porch and Moon" Signed Lithograph
Est: $100 - $200
Signed lower right corner, numbered 104/275. 18.5" H x 16.5" W x 1" D.
Rivich Auction
Sep. 28, 2025
Robert Kipniss (b.1931) Pencil Signed Lithograph 152/260
Est: $200 - $300
House or barn with trees. Condition: Very good. Some very mild discoloration. Tape adhesive residue on back top edge. Dimensions: Approximately 15.5 in H x 19 in W.
Hughes Auctions
Sep. 28, 2025
Robert Kipniss (b.1931) Pencil Signed Lithograph 8/260
Est: $200 - $300
Trees with field and barn in background. Condition: Very good. Some mild discoloration. Dimensions: Approximately 18 in H x 13 in W.
Hughes Auctions
Sep. 25, 2025
Kipniss, Robert (geb. 1931 in New York)
Est: €80 - €96
"Bare Trees" Lithographie auf Bütten. Ca. 35,3×25 cm. Sign., dat. 1970, betit. u. num. 14/90. Erworben bei: S.K.H. Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, (o.J.). Unter Glas gerahmt. (60450)
Leo Spik
Sep. 10, 2025
Robert Kipniss White Star Lithograph Signed
Est: $150 - $300
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), The White Star, late 20th century, lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 24/120 at lower margin, image size 15 x 13.25 inches, framed 24.75 x 22.75 inches.
Concept Art Gallery
Sep. 10, 2025
Robert Kipniss Reflections of a Pale Tree Lithograph Signed
Est: $200 - $400
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), Reflections of a Pale Tree, c. 1980, lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 24/120 at lower margin, image size 17.75 x 15.25 inches, framed 27.5 x 24.75 inches.
Concept Art Gallery
Sep. 10, 2025
Robert Kipniss Reflections of a Pale Tree Lithograph Signed
Est: $200 - $400
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), Reflections of a Pale Tree, c. 1980, color lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 44/120 at lower margin, image size 17.75 x 15.25 inches, framed 28.75 x 25.75 inches.
Concept Art Gallery
Sep. 10, 2025
Robert Kipniss House and Tree Lithograph Signed
Est: $150 - $300
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), House and Tree, late 20th century, lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 11/20 at lower margin, image size 16 x 17 inches, framed 26.25 inches square.
Concept Art Gallery
Aug. 15, 2025
Robert Kipniss, Untitled
Est: $300 - $500
Robert Kipniss Untitled mezzotint image: 19.5 h x 19.5 w in (50 x 50 cm) sheet: 24.75 h x 22.75 w in (63 x 58 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge 'Printer's Proof 3/3 Kipniss'. This work is printer's proof 3 of 3 apart from the edition of unknown size. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Aug. 13, 2025
ROBERT KIPNISS, SHED, LITHOGRAPH
Est: $550 - $750
Artist: Robert Kipniss, American (1931 - ) Title: Shed Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph, signed, numbered and titled in pencil Edition: AP IV/XV Image Size: 13 x 10 inches Size: 18.5 x 14.5 in. (46.99 x 36.83 cm) Description: Robert Kipness was an American painter and printmaker who's work focused on forms and a pronounced moodiness. This print is signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
RoGallery
Aug. 06, 2025
Robert Kipniss, American (b. 1931), Balustrade, 1981, color lithograph, 22 3/4"H x 15"W
Est: -
Robert Kipniss American, (b. 1931) Balustrade, 1981 color lithograph Pencil signed lower right, edition 80/120. Biography from the Archives of askART: Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms. Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In Kipniss' 1995 mezzotint*, Clear Vase and Landscape, with a foreground image of precisely leafy stalks, the vase holding them, nearly invisible in its transparency, suggests an almost Salvador Dali-like surrealist device. This central image dominates but seems to invite association with, and commentary from, the surrounding clumps and individual round-topped, yet cedar-like trees. His mezzzotint, For Stella," 1997, depicts a gently twisting, curving, pale and smoothly-barked foreground, leafless tree limb or trunk, like a female human body, suggesting weakness, fatigue, an inability to deal with the staccato background screen of textured bush that seems to uncomfortably impinge upon it. This print is arguably a metaphor for a delicate soul struggling to overcome the prickly difficulties of domineering life. The classic mezzotint process, invented in the middle of the 17th Century, is the reverse of most of the other print-making media, since the artist works from a black ground to increasingly lighter areas. The copper plate is first roughened by a "rocker," creating a burr over the entire surface (the more burr left intact, the more ink it holds, the darker the final finished print). The artist, Robert Kipniss, in this instance, gradually burnishes, smoothes down the burr in varying degrees to produce the gradations of lights and darks of the final design. The deepest darks in the final picture are those areas on the plate that have been little touched after the initial roughening. Mezzotint relies on shade and tone rather than outline for its effect, which fits the Kipniss style of atmospheric* masses of value. A recent oil painting by Robert Kipniss, Hillside Silhouettes, 2001, 40 x 29, is somewhat more complex in composition than many, with four cubically-constructed houses each set in their own zones, seemingly unrelated to one another, with receding hills and similarly isolated, increasingly misty trees beyond. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy of Design* in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998 Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work.
Ripley Auctions
Aug. 06, 2025
Robert Kipniss Stairway Lithograph Signed
Est: $100 - $200
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), Stairway, 1985, color lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 57/120 at lower margin, image size 11 x 10 inches, framed 22.75 x 21 inches.
Concept Art Gallery
Aug. 06, 2025
2 Robert Kipniss Lithographs Signed
Est: $100 - $200
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), 2 lithographs, late 20th century. FIRST: Yards and Saplings, color lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 57/120 at lower margin, image size 11 x 10 inches, framed 20.75 x 19.25 inches. SECOND: Tual, pencil signed and editioned 16/25 artist's proof at lower margin, image size 15 x 11.75 inches, framed 24.75 x 21 inches.
Concept Art Gallery
Aug. 06, 2025
2 Robert Kipniss Lithographs Signed
Est: $200 - $300
Kipniss, Robert (American, b. 1931), 2 lithographs, late 20th century. FIRST: Roadside, color lithograph, pencil signed and editioned 188/250 at lower margin, image size 15.5 x 11.75 inches, framed 24 x 20.25 inches. SECOND: Seclusion, pencil signed and editioned 111/120 at lower margin, image size 18 x 13.75 inches, framed 26.75 x 22.25 inches.
Concept Art Gallery