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.
JEAN-PHILIPPE DALLAIRE
Portrait of a Woman
oil on board
signed and dated 1938 lower right; signed, dated 1938 and inscribed “Ottawa, Ont. Canada” on the reverse
22 x 19 ins ( 55.9 x 48.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $23,000.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
WILLIAM KURELEK
Geese Flying South, Coniston, Ontario
mixed media on board
signed with monogram and dated 1966 lower right
12.5 x 24.25 ins ( 31.8 x 61.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $23,000.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
JAMES WILSON MORRICE
Study for “The Pond, West Indies” (circa 1916-1919)
watercolour
signed lower left; inscribed “In Trinidad” on the reverse of the card; inscribed “Trinidad, Pond with Palms and Two Figures” on the reverse of the framing; F.R. Heaton Estate No.128
12.75 x 8.5 ins ( 32.4 x 21.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $22,420.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
GERSHON ISKOWITZ
Violet - A
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1979 on the reverse
38 x 33 ins ( 96.5 x 83.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $21,850.00
Sale date: November 25th 2015
ANDY WARHOL
The Shadow
screenprint on lenox museum board
signed and numbered 9/200 in pencil lower right; stamped “Copyright Andy Warhol 1981, Publisher Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York” on the reverse; Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York
38 x 38 ins ( 96.5 x 96.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $35,000.00
Price Realized $18,530.00
Sale date: September 24th 2015
ARTHUR LISMER
Tumbled Rocks, Georgian Bay
oil on board
signed and dated 1946 lower centre; signed, titled and dated 1946 on a label on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $20,700.00
Sale date: November 25th 2015
TED HARRISON
Carcross
acrylic on board
signed and dated 1977 lower right; signed, titled, dated 1977 and inscribed “Whitehorse-Yukon” on a copy of a label affixed to the reverse
16.5 x 24 ins ( 41.9 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $20,700.00
Sale date: December 14th 2016
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
HAROLD BARLING TOWN
Tyranny of the Corner (Hypothesis Set)
oil and lucite on canvas
signed (twice), titled and dated 1962 (twice) on the reverse
81 x 74 ins ( 205.7 x 188 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $20,700.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
PETER CLAPHAM SHEPPARD
Painting Muskoka Rapids (Self Portrait)
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated 1932 with the artist’s estate stamp on the reverse
13 x 16 ins ( 33 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $20,400.00
Sale date: July 20th 2021
FREDERICK HORSMAN VARLEY
Mabou - Cape Breton
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; titled and Varley Inventory Number (441) stamped on the reverse
12 x 15 ins ( 30.5 x 38.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $19,550.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
MARC CHAGALL
Hyménée from Daphnis and Chloé (Cramer 46, Mourlot 349)
colour lithograph
signed and numbered 56/60 within the lower margin; Published by Tériade, Paris
21 x 29.5 ins ( 53.3 x 74.9 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $18,000.00
Price Realized $18,000.00
Sale date: June 24th 2021
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Sombre Day, Lake of Bays
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1979 on the reverse
12 x 15 ins ( 30.5 x 38.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $17,250.00
Sale date: March 8th 2017
Previous Auctions
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- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
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- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
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- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
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- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
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- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
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- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
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- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
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- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
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- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
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- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Holiday Sale (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
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- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
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- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: November 27, 2024
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- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
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- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
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- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
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- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
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- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
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- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
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- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
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- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
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- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
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- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
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- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
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- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Mousseau and Friends (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Grand Tour (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Works from the Estate of William Ronald (Part II) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Spring Live Auction (Session 1 & 2)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Group of Seven (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Works from the Estate of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Artwork of David Blackwood (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Modern Forms (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
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- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- La belle province (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Artwork for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Watercolours & Drawings (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- 20th Century Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
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- Sale Closed: December 12, 2023
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- Sale Closed: December 12, 2023
- An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: December 6, 2023
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- Sale Closed: December 6, 2023
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- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
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- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
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- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
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- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
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- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
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