Books and Reference
Previously Sold Works
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Harold Town Reference Books
four books
- Kay Woods, “Harold Town: The First Exhibition of New Work, 1969-1973”, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 1973;
- Harold Town “Silent Stars/Sound Stars/Film Stars”, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto/Montreal, 1971;
- Harold Town “Enigmas”, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto/Montreal, 1964; signed by the artist and numbered 67/175; with Harold Town, “Untitled”, lithograph, signed, dated 1964 and numbered 67/175 in the lower margin, 12.75 x 14.5 ins [sheet];
- Harold Town and Irving Layton “Love Where the Nights are Long”, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1962; signed by Harold Town and Irving Layton and numbered 38/199 on the title page
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Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $510.00
Sale date: August 23rd 2022
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
The Lithographs of Chagall, Volumes I-III
three volumes with colour lithographs
- “Chagall: Lithographe” (Julien Cain, George Braziller, New York, 1960);
- “Chagall: Lithographe II: 1957-1962” (Fernand Mourlot, Boston Books and Art Shop, Boston, 1963);
- “Chagall: Lithographe III: 1962-1968” (Julien Cain, Boston Books and Art Shop, Boston, 1969)
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Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $510.00
Sale date: March 26th 2024
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
September Gale: A Study of Arthur Lismer (John A.B. McLeish); The Growth of Canadian Painting (Donald W. Buchanan); Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr (Clarke Irwin); Group of Seven Drawings (Paul Duval)
four books
“September Gale: A Study of Arthur Lismer” (John A.B. McLeish, J.M. Dent and Sons, Canada, 1955, signed by Arthur Lismer and presented in the original dust jacket); “The Growth of Canadian Painting (Donald W. Buchanan, Collins, London and Toronto, 1950); “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr” (Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd, Toronto/Vancouver, 1966, presented in the original dust jacket); “Group of Seven Drawings” (Paul Duval, Burns and MacEachern Limited, Toronto, 1965, presented in the original dust jacket)
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Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: December 12th 2018
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
A Painter’s Country (A.Y. Jackson); West by East (J.E.H. & Thoreau MacDonald); Country Hours (Locke); A Canadian Art Movement (F.B. Housser)
four books
“A Painter’s Country: the autobiography of A.Y. Jackson” (A.Y. Jackson, Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd, Canada, 1963, presented in the original dust jacket); “West by East & Other Poems by J.E.H. MacDonald” (J.E.H. MacDonald, with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1933, presented in the original dust jacket); “Country Hours” (Clarke Locke, illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1959, presented in the original dust jacket and book signed by the author); “A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven” (F.B. Housser, The MacMillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1974, presented in the original dust jacket)
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Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: December 12th 2018
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
A Selection of Robson & Ryerson Artist Books
six books
“J.E.H. MacDonald” (Albert H. Robson, 1946);
“Clarence Gagnon” (Albert H. Robson, 1945);
“Paul Kane” (Albert H. Robson, 1938);
“J.E.H. MacDonald” (Albert H. Robson, 1937);
“Cornelius Krieghoff” (Marius Barbeau, 1948);
“C.W. Jefferys” (William Colgate, 1948; signed by the artist on the frontispage);
“James Wilson Morrice” (Donald W. Buchanan, 1947);
“Henri Julien” (Marius Barbeau, 1941, signed by Paul Duval on the cover);
“Paddle and Palette: The Story of Tom Thomson” (Blodwen Davies, 1930);
“Côte: The Wood Carver” (Marius Barbeau, 1943);
“J.W. Beatty” (Dorothy Hoover, 1948);
“Maurice Cullen” (William R. Watson, 1931)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: January 28th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
A.J. Casson / A Tribute
book
M.B. Loates Publishing, 1980; signed by A.J. Casson and Paul Duval and numbered 102/150 in pencil on the title page; a signed and numbered 102/150 A.J. Casson lithograph is included (sheet 15.5 x 18.5 inches); housed in its original case
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Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: April 14th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Charles Pachter; The Ascent
book and serigraph
“Charles Pachter” (Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, McClelland & Stewart, 1992); signed by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter on the frontispiece;
sold together with “The Ascent” (serigraph on paper, signed, dated 1992 and numbered 27/150 in the lower margin, 11.5 x 9.5 ins); housed in folder; all in original slipcase
11.5 x 9.5 ins ( 29.2 x 24.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Emily Carr “Sister and I in Alaska”
book
Emily Carr “Sister and I in Alaska” (David A. SIlcox (ed.), Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, 2013); housed in slipcase
11.75 x 9.25 ins ( 29.8 x 23.5 cms ) ( overall (including case) )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $480.00
Sale date: June 1st 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Fifteen International Photography Reference Books
fifteen books
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $480.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Eight Canadian Art and Travel Reference Books
8 books
Full listing in cataloguing details
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Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $480.00
Sale date: January 31st 2023
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Lawren Harris (Harris & Colgove, eds); Lemieux (Robert); The Journals of Emily Carr (Irwin); The Canadian Art Graphic Art Year Book (1931)
four books
“Lawren Harris” [Bess Harris & R.G.P. Colgrove (eds.), Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1969], in the original slipcover; “Lemieux” (Guy Robert, Gage Publishing, Toronto, 1978), in the original dust jacket;, signed by the artist and author; “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr” (Clarke, Irwin & Company, Toronto/Vancouver, 1966, with twelve colour reproductions within the original slipcover), in the original slipcover, numbered 945/1000; “The Canadian Graphic Art Year Book: Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-One” (The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1931) with colour block print by T.W. McLean tipped inside (”Cathedral Mountain”, 5.75 ins x 4 ins)
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $431.00
Sale date: March 8th 2017
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
The Automatiste Revolution; Fernand Leduc de 1943 á 1985; Guido Molinari - The Black and White Paintings 1951-1961; Rita Letendre - The Montreal Years - 1953-1963
four books
The Automatiste Revolution, Montréal, 1941-1960 (Roald Nasgaard & Ray Ellenwood; Douglas & McIntyre/Varley-McKay Art Foundation of Markham, 2009); Fernand Leduc de 1943 á 1985 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres, 1985); Guido Molinari 1951-1961 - The Black and White Paintings (Vancouver Art Gallery, 1989); Rita Letendre - The Montréal Years 1953-1963 (Concordia Art Gallery, 1989)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $443.00
Sale date: July 18th 2018
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Artist Reference Books
six books
“Clarence A. Gagnon” (Albert H. Robson, 1938);
“Côté: The Wood Carver” (Marius Barbeau, 1943);
“James Wilson Morrice” (Donald W. Buchanan, 1947) - 2 copies;
“Maurice Cullen” (William R. Watson, 1931);
“J.E.H. MacDonald” (E.R. Hunter, 1940)
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $443.00
Sale date: January 28th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Eight Canadian Art Reference Books
eight books
- “A. Y. Jackson: The Arctic 1927” (Naomi Jackson Groves, Penumbra Press, Moonbeam, Ontario, 1982);
- “F. H. Varley” (The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, 1981);
- “Thoreau MacDonald: A Catalogue of Design and Illustration” (Margaret E. Edison, University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 1973);
- “The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation” (Charles C. Hill, National Gallery of Canada, McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1995);
- “The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters” (Evelyn Walters, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2005) -signed by the author on the title page;
- “Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm” (Harold Town and David P. Silcox, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1977) -signed by the authors on the first page;
- “Lawren Harris” (Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1969);
- “A. J. Casson/His Life & Works/A Tribute” (Paul Duval, Cerebrus/Prentice-Hall, Toronto, 1980) -signed by the artist on the title page
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: December 15th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Nineteen Indigenous Art Reference Publications
nineteen books
Full listing within cataloguing details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
