Midnight – Black Wolf
- Medium
- Signed and numbered print on paper of an acrylic painting on Masonite; a dealer calls it a lithograph print465
- Issue price
- Canadian $485, or US $325, according to one dealer4
A lone, mature black wolf on an almost black background. Bateman writes that he wanted a mood of seriousness and respect, not threat, and compares the painting to playing a whole piano piece in half an octave of the bass.5
What it sells for
Midnight – Black Wolf rarely comes up for sale: the snapshot collected 13 November 2026 holds no sold listing for this title.
With so few sales of one title, the artist-level range is the better guide. Recent eBay sold listings for Robert Bateman ranged from $7 to $1,500, with a median of $125
- Low
- $7
- 25th percentile
- $60
- Median
- $125
- 75th percentile
- $250
- High
- $1,500
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How to identify it
The Premiere or Deluxe Edition is a set of two, limited to 950: the paper print and an original lithograph of 5¼ × 12½ inches. A dealer gives its issue price as Canadian $925, about US $625, in 1989.46
Giclée prints on canvas followed in 2003 as an Anniversary Edition: 550 at 30 × 40 inches and 99 at 36 × 48 inches, the size of the painting. A second dealer also lists 290 giclées on clayboard at 33 × 44 inches, with 49 artist’s proofs.46
Robert Bateman prints in general
The usual Bateman print is a reproduction of a painting. Auction houses catalog them as color offset lithographs, signed and numbered in pencil in the margin. One example of 1992 is recorded as numbered 283/4500, published by Mill Pond Press of Venice, Florida, with 76 artist’s proofs and a certificate of authenticity.2
Edition sizes vary enormously: from 950 to more than 40,000 among the prints on this site. The size is on the print itself; an auction house records a copy of Pride of Autumn – Canada Goose as numbered 263/15,294.789
Some prints were also sold as a Premier, Prestige or Deluxe Edition: a set of two, made up of the large print and a small original lithograph, each signed and numbered in a much smaller edition. For the four such sets on this site the edition is 450 or 950.101184
This print on eBay now
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Sources
- Unexpected Bateman: exhibition essay by Paul Crawford. Penticton Art Gallery.
- Fine Prints and Photography, lot 191: Robert Bateman, Winter Trackers – Coyote. Waddington’s (auction), 10 March 2015.
- Bev Doolittle: Limited Edition Prints, by Myrna Zanetell. Southwest Art Magazine, June 1997.
- Robert Bateman Presents "Midnight - Black Wolf". Art & Nature (dealer, Kirkland, Quebec).
- Midnight - Black Wolf. robertbateman.ca (the artist’s official site).
- Robert Bateman: Midnight - Black Wolf. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).
- Robert Bateman: Ready for the Hunt - Snowy Owl. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).
- Robert Bateman: The Air, the Forest & the Watch. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).
- Discovery Art, lot 332: Robert Bateman, Pride of Autumn – Canada Goose. Waddington’s (auction), 17 November 2022.
- Robert Bateman: Shadow of the Rainforest. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).
- Robert Bateman: Siberian Tiger. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).