Philip Henry Howard Surrey
(1910 - 1990) RCA, CAS, Order of Canada
Previously Sold Works
PHILLIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Near Loyola
pastel
signed lower left
12 x 18 ins ( 30.5 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $3,000.00
Sale date: September 24th 2015
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
The Letter
oil on board
signed upper right; signed and titled on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $2,950.00
Sale date: September 12th 2018
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Dans le train (Train Scene)
charcoal on paper
signed lower left
9 x 12 ins ( 22.9 x 30.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,652.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Evening, Atlanta Airport
coloured pastel on paper
signed, titled and dated “February 1976” in the lower margin; unframed
13 x 20 ins ( 33 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $1,610.00
Sale date: March 14th 2018
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Beach at L’Anse Mitan, Martinique
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated 1964 on a label on the reverse
6 x 8 ins ( 15.2 x 20.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,560.00
Sale date: June 24th 2021
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
The Jetty, Baie St-Paul
oil on masonite
signed lower left; titled and dated 1969 to a label on the reverse
8 x 11 ins ( 20.3 x 27.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Clouded Landscape
oil on board
signed lower left; Estate stamp on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,298.00
Sale date: June 13th 2018
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Petit étang près de Lac Malaga
oil on board
signed lower left; titled and dated 1977 to a label on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,180.00
Sale date: March 30th 2021
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Maurice (Rocket) Richard
charcoal, coloured pencil and watercolour
signed, titled and dated 1959 lower right; titled “Rocket” with estate stamp and inscribed with “4464 L(1)” on the reverse
8.75 x 11.5 ins ( 22.2 x 29.2 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,140.00
Sale date: September 27th 2022
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Against the Red
graphite and ink wash
signed lower left; titled on the reverse of the framing
8.75 x 6.75 ins ( 22.2 x 17.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $708.00
Sale date: June 5th 2019
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
La Chaussée Mouillée
colour serigraph
signed, titled, dated 1981 and numbered 3/250 in the lower margin
21 x 15.75 ins ( 53.3 x 40 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $354.00
Sale date: June 2nd 2020
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Sky Study, Shawbridge East
acrylic on board
signed lower right
8 x 11 ins ( 20.3 x 27.9 cms )
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Westmount Tennis Club
gouache and watercolour
signed lower left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
11.75 x 15.5 ins ( 29.8 x 39.4 cms ) ( sight )
PHILIP HENRY HOWARD SURREY
Le maxicoat
charcoal, watercolour and ink
signed lower left; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
15.5 x 23.5 ins ( 39.4 x 59.7 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: October 10th 2023
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Philip Surrey Biography
(1910 - 1990) RCA, CAS, Order of Canada
"Each individual is alone, cut off. Each wonders how others cope with life. A work of art is a particularly complex statement, valuable because packed with meaning... Like icebergs, four-fifths of our personalities lie below the surface; of the fifth that shows, only part can be expressed in conversation. The only effective outlet for all deeper feelings and thoughts is art." (Philip Surrey, c. 1949)
Philip Surrey, a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society, was a figurative painter with an enduring interest in human subjects within urban nightscapes. For most of his career, Surrey used Montreal as his stage, arranging lighting and figures - most often pedestrians - in compositions that revealed both the gregarious nature and the solitude of humanity. A friend and student of Frederick Varley, Surrey was also closely tied to many of the most important Montreal artists and writers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Philip Surrey began his art training in Winnipeg at age sixteen, when he took an apprenticeship at Brigdens commercial art firm. There, he met Fritz Brandtner. In the evenings, he took classes at the Winnipeg School of Art under LeMoine FitzGerald and George Overton. It was at this time that he started painting the streets and people of Winnipeg after dark, by the light of streetlamps and restaurants. He moved to Vancouver in 1929 and took a job as a commercial artist at Cleland-Kent Engraving. In night classes at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, he studied with Frederick Varley and Jock Macdonald. Surrey left Vancouver in 1936 and spent three months at New York's Art Students League, studying under Frank Vincent Dumond. The following year, he settled in Montreal and found work at the Standard newspaper. He continued to paint in evenings and on weekends and became immersed in the art scene, rekindling his friendship with Brandtner and befriending John Lyman, Goodridge Roberts, Jori Smith and Jean Palardy.
Philip Surrey was awarded the Centennial Medal (1967). He held an honorary doctorate form Concordia University (1981), and was a member of the Order of Canada (1982).
