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Shadow of the Rainforest – Black Jaguar
The artist’s site gives the full title as Shadow of the Rainforest – Black Jaguar. A dealer lists it as Shadow Of The Rainforest.56
- Year
- Painted in 1992. No source read gives the year the print was released.5
- Edition
- About 9,000: a dealer lists it as “9 K” signed and numbered. A Premier Edition of 450 two-piece sets added an original lithograph.4
- Size
- 25⅝ × 32½ in, in the print notes on the artist’s site5
- Issue price
- [issue price of the paper edition not confirmed]
A fragment of rainforest canopy, with epiphytes, vines and a palm growing high in the trees; in the shadows is a black jaguar. Bateman writes that the destruction of biodiversity is the most serious crisis facing life on earth.5
What it sells for
Shadow of the Rainforest – Black Jaguar 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 Premier Edition is a set of two, limited to 450: the offset print and an original lithograph of 21½ × 12½ inches.4
A Canvas Anniversary Edition of 250 signed and numbered prints, 24 × 36 inches, came after the paper edition. One dealer gives its issue price as Canadian $1,995, about US $1,295.6
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 950.410811
This print on eBay now
See Shadow of the Rainforest – Black Jaguar by Robert Bateman in eBay’s Art category. Auctions are listed ending soonest first; many sellers also take a Best Offer.
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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: Shadow of the Rainforest. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).
- Shadow of the Rainforest - Black Jaguar. robertbateman.ca (the artist’s official site).
- Robert Bateman Presents "Shadow Of The Rainforest". Art & Nature (dealer, Kirkland, Quebec).
- 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: Siberian Tiger. Art Country Canada (dealer, Canmore, Alberta).
- Robert Bateman Presents "Midnight - Black Wolf". Art & Nature (dealer, Kirkland, Quebec).