Robert Wakeham Pilot
(1898 - 1967) PRCA
Previously Sold Works
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Meeting the Ferry at Quebec (circa 1924)
oil on canvas
signed lower right
18 x 24 ins ( 45.7 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $50,000.00
Price Realized $84,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Cottage with Cross, Newfoundland
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1938 lower left
18 x 24 ins ( 45.7 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $40,000.00
Price Realized $34,500.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
March Mist
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled in pencil to the stretcher
21 x 28 in ( 53.3 x 71.1 cm )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $28,800.00
Sale date: November 27th 2024
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Place d’Armes, Quebec
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1949 lower left
22 x 28.25 ins ( 55.9 x 71.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $25,960.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Village in Winter
oil on canvas
signed lower right
22 x 28 ins ( 55.9 x 71.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $25,000.00
Price Realized $20,700.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Parliament Hill, Overlooking the Rideau Canal
oil on canvas
signed lower right
22 x 28 ins ( 55.9 x 71.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $18,000.00 - $22,000.00
Price Realized $21,600.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Dufferin Terrace, Winter
oil on board
signed lower right; titled “Dufferin Terrace, Winter” and dated circa 1950 on a gallery label on the reverse
8 x 10.5 ins ( 20.3 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $21,600.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Quebec Winter
oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed and dated 1925 on the reverse
15.25 x 18 in ( 38.7 x 45.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $15,000.00 - $20,000.00
Price Realized $21,600.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Cabbies, Old Montreal
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated 1926 to a label on the reverse
6.25 x 8.75 in ( 15.9 x 22.2 cm )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00
Price Realized $20,400.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Autumn Landscape
oil on canvas
signed lower right
19 x 24 ins ( 48.3 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $17,700.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Winter Break Up, Montreal Harbour
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1950 on the reverse
19 x 24.25 ins ( 48.3 x 61.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00
Price Realized $15,600.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
October Snow, St. Agnès, Quebec
oil on canvas
signed and indistinctly dated lower left; titled and dated 1936 on the reverse
18.25 x 22 ins ( 46.4 x 55.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00
Price Realized $12,650.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Barbados, BWI
oil on board
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated 1959 on the reverse
12.5 x 16.75 ins ( 31.8 x 42.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $12,000.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
oil on board
signed and dated 1927 lower left
12.25 x 17 ins ( 31.1 x 43.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $10,800.00
Sale date: December 3rd 2020
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Sillery from the Battlefields, Quebec
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1948 lower right; titled on the stretcher
19 x 24.25 ins ( 48.3 x 61.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $9,000.00
Sale date: December 3rd 2020
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Robert Pilot Biography
(1898 - 1967) PRCA
Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Robert Pilot moved to Montreal in 1910 when his widowed mother married well-known Canadian artist Maurice Cullen. Pilot found he was attracted to the artistic life as he helped his stepfather with chores in the studio and began sketching. He studied figure drawing at the Royal Canadian Academy and learned landscape painting with Cullen. As a student at the Art Association of Montreal, he was recognized as a gifted pupil by instructor William Brymner, who offered instruction to the penniless young artist free of charge on the condition that he would pay the fees when he was able.
After serving overseas in WWI he returned to Montreal and was invited to participate in the first Group of Seven exhibition in 1920. For a time he concentrated on the etching medium, with the desire to develop his own style apart from that of his stepfather. He was given the opportunity to study in Paris with the help of a generous patron and travelled to Paris in 1920. There he studied at the Academie Julian and exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1922. On his return to Canada he was elected an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy. Exhibiting with the RCA gave him more visibility and some of his works were acquired by the National Gallery of Canada. After several successful exhibitions he travelled abroad painting in France, Spain, and North Africa. In addition to oil paintings and etchings he worked in pastel and completed several mural commissions in public buildings. More successful shows followed and he continued to paint, although he served his country once again in WW2. His Canadian impressionist painting style was shaped by his years in France, the influence of his stepfather, Maurice Cullen, and the work of J. W. Morrice, whom he greatly admired. He was elected president of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1952. Pilot died in 1967 and was honored with a retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1969.
