Hilton MacDonald Hassell
(1910 - 1980) RCA, OSA
Previously Sold Works
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
May Reflections (Speyside)
oil on board
signed lower left; titled twice on the reverse (once on the artist’s label)
18 x 22 ins ( 45.7 x 55.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,070.00
Sale date: June 14th 2017
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
May Reflections (Speyside)
oil on board
signed lower left; titled twice on the reverse (once on the artist’s label)
18 x 21.75 ins ( 45.7 x 55.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,160.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
La Ferme, Fliquet (Jersey Channel Isles)
acrylic on board
signed lower right; titled on an artist’s label on the reverse
10 x 16 ins ( 25.4 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: April 27th 2021
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
On Mary Lake Rd. S. Huntsville
acrylic on canvas board
signed lower left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
11.25 x 15.25 ins ( 28.6 x 38.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,140.00
Sale date: October 25th 2022
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Kicking Horse River (Near Field, B.C.)
acrylic on canvas board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
11.75 x 18 ins ( 29.8 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $1,035.00
Sale date: November 25th 2015
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Pines at Kilbear Point, Georgian Bay
acrylic on canvas board
signed lower right; titled on the artist’s label on the reverse
14 x 18 ins ( 35.6 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $920.00
Sale date: November 25th 2015
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Down by the Irish Sea (Skerries, Ireland)
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the artist’s label on the reverse
26 x 20 ins ( 66 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $805.00
Sale date: September 20th 2017
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Poplars and Rock, Montreal River, c.1960
oil on board
signed lower right; titled to artist label on the reverse
14 x 20 ins ( 35.6 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $826.00
Sale date: September 17th 2019
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Lobster-Boat Watch
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the artist label on the reverse
12 x 24 ins ( 30.5 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $826.00
Sale date: October 22nd 2019
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Spanish River
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; itled on the artist’s label on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: September 17th 2014
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Young Ballerinas
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the artist’s label on the reverse
30 x 18 ins ( 76.2 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $748.00
Sale date: September 20th 2017
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Low Tide, Parker’s Cove, N.S.
acrylic on board
signed lower right; titled twice on the reverse (once on the artist’s label)
14 x 18 ins ( 35.6 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $570.00
Sale date: December 13th 2022
HILTON MACDONALD HASSELL
Descending Sails
sampson matthews silkscreen
sold together with unframed Hilton Hassell articles, biography, and fifteen colour slides
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
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Hilton Hassell Biography
(1910 - 1980) RCA, OSA
Born in Lachine, Quebec, Hassell studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto under J. W. Beatty, J.E.H. MacDonald and F.H. Johnston; and under Hayward Veal at the Heatherley School of Art, London, England. He worked at Brigden’s Limited until 1955 when he turned to painting full-time. He also did work for other firms including art editing for MacLean’s Magazine.
Working in oil, watercolour and acrylic, his subjects include figures, portraits, landscape and coastal scenes. He traveled and painted in Spain, Ireland (1965), Sussex in England, Massachusetts, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Steveston, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic. His work was noted by the Port Credit Weekly as follows, “Many of the paintings… are the result of a trip to Ireland this spring… In Ireland… he found the farms, the bogs and the cosy, intimate seaports a source of inspiration… Hassell whose choice of subject is wide, obviously delights in water, sea coasts, shorelines, harbours and coves… In Newfoundland, the country reminds him in many ways of Ireland, he painted the flakes, the wooden-shelf-like platforms which the fishermen build to dry the fish in the sun.”
Hassell exhibited with the RCA between 1936-1966, the MMFA in 1960 and 1961, and at the Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's Newfoundland in 1965. His winter landscapes have been reproduced for Christmas cards. He lived in Port Credit, Ontario and was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979