John Young Johnstone
(1887 - 1930) ARCA
Previously Sold Works
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Fishing Village, Bruges
oil on canvas
signed lower right
14 x 10.75 ins ( 35.6 x 27.3 cms )
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Village Scene, St. Joachim, Quebec
oil on board
signed lower right
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $4,484.00
Sale date: May 29th 2018
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Rural Homestead at Sunset
oil on board
signed and dated 1917 lower right
4.75 x 7 ins ( 12.1 x 17.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $4,012.00
Sale date: November 20th 2018
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
The Procession
oil on canvas
signed lower left
11 x 14 ins ( 27.9 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $7,800.00
Sale date: September 12th 2023
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Lake Luzerne
oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed, titled, dated “October 1913” and inscribed “Suisse” on the stretcher
19.75 x 25.5 ins ( 50.2 x 64.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $6,600.00
Sale date: March 1st 2022
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Country Villa
oil on board
signed lower left
4.5 x 5.5 ins ( 11.4 x 14 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $6,000.00
Sale date: March 1st 2022
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
The Road, Saint-Joachim, Quebec
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
13 x 19 ins ( 33 x 48.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $4,800.00
Sale date: September 12th 2023
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Beaupré, Quebec
oil on board
signed lower right
11.5 x 15.25 ins ( 29.2 x 38.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $3,600.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2022
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Nautical Scene
ink and watercolour on paper
signed lower right; titled on the gallery label on the reverse; unframed (matted)
9 x 14 ins ( 22.9 x 35.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $270.00
Sale date: February 28th 2023
JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE
Côte de Beaupré
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
5.5 x 7 ins ( 14 x 17.8 cms )
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John Johnstone Biography
(1887 - 1930) ARCA
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied at the Art Association of Montreal under William brymner, RCA, and in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under Pau, Casteluche, Simon, and Ménard. His style was rather beautiful being a simplified realism also with the influence of the Impressionists. He was most successful in his early thirties. He exhibited his paintings at the Montreal Spring Shows and with the Royal Canadian Academy. He was elected ARCA in 1920. Newton MacTavish included him amongst the very fine painters in Canada in 1925 and his painting “A Quebec Village” was reproduced in MacTavish's “The Fine Arts in Canada”. The National Gallery of Canada acquired four of his canvases. In 1930 he went to Havana, Cuba, and somehow became destitute and died there at the age of 43.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
