Exceptional Results
This page provides details of a selection of works of art which achieved exceptional results in our past auctions. Select an artwork below for further details. All posted results include Buyer's Premium.
EMILY CARR
The Totem of the Bear and the Moon
oil on canvas
signed “M. Emily Carr”, dated 1912 and inscribed “Kispiox” lower left
37 x 17.75 ins ( 94 x 45.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000,000.00 - $3,000,000.00
Price Realized $3,120,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
TOM THOMSON
Petawawa Gorges
oil on panel
Estate stamp lower right; Estate stamp and inscribed with title, dated “1916” and “M. Thomson” on the reverse
8.25 x 10.5 ins ( 21 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000,000.00 - $1,500,000.00
Price Realized $2,220,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Quiet Lake (Northern Painting 12), circa 1926-1928
oil on canvas
inscribed “Quiet Lake/Lawren Harris/Northern Painting XII 34 x 40” on a label on the reverse
34 x 40 ins ( 86.4 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000,000.00 - $3,000,000.00
Price Realized $2,160,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
EMILY CARR
Kitwancool, circa 1928
oil on canvas
signed lower right; inscribed “Kispiax” on the reverse
44 x 26.75 ins ( 111.8 x 67.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000,000.00 - $1,500,000.00
Price Realized $1,920,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
TOM THOMSON
Ragged Oaks, 1916
oil on panel
Estate stamp lower right; Estate stamp and inscribed “M. Thomson”, “134” and “23” on the reverse; inscribed with title, “Not for Sale” and “16” on a label on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000,000.00 - $1,500,000.00
Price Realized $1,800,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
TOM THOMSON
Evening, Pine Island
oil on panel
Estate stamp lower right; Estate stamp and inscribed with title and dated “1914” on the reverse
10.5 x 8.5 ins ( 26.7 x 21.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900,000.00 - $1,200,000.00
Price Realized $1,680,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
TOM THOMSON
Nocturne
oil on panel
estate stamp lower left; titled, dated 1916, estate stamp and inscribed “Beatrice” on the reverse; catalogue raisonné no. 1916.82
8.25 x 10.5 ins ( 21 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900,000.00 - $1,200,000.00
Price Realized $1,500,000.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
JAMES WILSON MORRICE
Neige, Canada (Snow, Canada) (circa 1905)
oil on canvas
signed lower right; inscribed “Neige, Canada” on the lower stretcher bar
18 x 25.75 ins ( 45.7 x 65.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400,000.00 - $600,000.00
Price Realized $1,260,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
MARCELLE FERRON
Sans titre
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1960 lower left; signed (twice) and dated 1960 on the reverse
74.75 x 98.5 ins ( 189.9 x 250.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $550,000.00 - $750,000.00
Price Realized $1,260,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
PAUL KANE
Ojibwa Camp in the Spider Islands
oil on canvas
18 x 29 ins ( 45.7 x 73.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900,000.00 - $1,200,000.00
Price Realized $1,080,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
North Shore, Lake Superior
oil on beaverboard
signed on the reverse
11.75 x 14.75 ins ( 29.8 x 37.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300,000.00 - $500,000.00
Price Realized $1,032,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Algoma (Algoma Sketch 48)
oil on panel
inscribed “Lawren Harris” and “Algoma Sketches XL VIII” by Doris Mills on a label on the reverse
10.5 x 14 ins ( 26.7 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400,000.00 - $600,000.00
Price Realized $977,500.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Tadenac, November
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled on the frame “Tadenac, November-Georgian Bay” and inscribed “Pickering College” (three times) and “Newmarket” on the stretcher, NJG Inventory No. 1710
40.25 x 38.25 ins ( 102.2 x 97.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400,000.00 - $600,000.00
Price Realized $936,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
ANDY WARHOL
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from Reigning Queens, 1985 (F&S II.334-337)
four colour silkscreens on lenox museum board
1. II.334, signed and numbered 27/40 lower right;
2. II.335, signed and numbered 21/40 lower right
3. II.336, signed and numbered 24/40 lower right
4. II.337, signed and numbered 19/40 lower right
each with the printer’s blindstamp and with the artist copyright ink stamp on the reverse.
Each printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Published by George C.P. Mulder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
39.4 x 31.5 ins ( 100.1 x 80 cms ) ( each )
Auction Estimate: $700,000.00 - $900,000.00
Price Realized $936,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Column on Browns
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1965 on the reverse
80 x 64 ins ( 203.2 x 162.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $250,000.00 - $350,000.00
Price Realized $870,000.00
Sale date: December 3rd 2020
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- The Art of Europe (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- Artwork from an Important Private Collection (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auctions)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Peaks to Prairies: Art of Western Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 28, 2023
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 28, 2023
- Canada & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 28, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Canadian Winter (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Books & Reference (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- From the Estate of William Ronald (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Holiday Charm (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 13, 2022
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 13, 2022
- An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: December 1, 2022
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- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: December 1, 2022
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- Canadian Group of Painters (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- Fall Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- Post-War & Contemporary Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- October Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- Little Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- La belle province (Art of Quebec) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 27, 2022
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 27, 2022
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 27, 2022
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- Prints & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- The Art of Barbara Mercer (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 19, 2022
- Cities & Towns (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 19, 2022
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 19, 2022
- Spring Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 28, 2022
- From the Estate of Robert Markle (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 28, 2022
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: June 15, 2022
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- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 31, 2022
- Post-War & Contemporary Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 31, 2022
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 19, 2022
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 19, 2022
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 19, 2022
- Inuit and First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 22, 2022
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 22, 2022
- Canada & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 1, 2022
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 1, 2022
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 1, 2022
- Post War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 1, 2022
- Canadian Winter (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 1, 2022
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 1, 2022
- Works on Paper, Books & Tapestries (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 14, 2021
- Holiday Charm (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 14, 2021
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 14, 2021
- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 30, 2021
- Fall Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 30, 2021
- Auction to Benefit the Art Gallery of Alberta (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 30, 2021
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2021
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- October Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 26, 2021
- Little Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 26, 2021
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 26, 2021
- Indigenous & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 28, 2021
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 28, 2021
- Art of Quebec: La belle province (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 28, 2021
- Prints of Sampson Matthews (& Related Work) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 17, 2021
- Books & Reference (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 17, 2021
- Canadian & International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 17, 2021
- People & Places (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 20, 2021
- Prints & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 20, 2021
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2021
- Spring Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2021
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2021
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: June 9, 2021
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- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 1, 2021
- From the Estate of William Ronald (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 1, 2021
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 27, 2021
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 27, 2021
- Canadian & International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 30, 2021
- Indigenous & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 30, 2021
- Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 23, 2021
- From the Archives of Sampson-Matthews Ltd. (& Related Material) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 23, 2021
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 2, 2021
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