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.
LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN
Landscape, Spruce Pine Beetle Kill
acrylic on linen
signed and dated 2008 lower right; unframed
72.5 x 49.25 ins ( 184.2 x 125.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $35,000.00 - $45,000.00
Price Realized $78,000.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
KATHLEEN MOIR MORRIS
The Fruit Shop, Ottawa
oil on canvas
signed lower right
18.25 x 24 ins ( 46.4 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $62,150.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
MARC-AURÈLE FORTIN
Ste. Rose paysage
oil on board
signed on the reverse; dated 1939 on the gallery label on the reverse
21.5 x 23.5 ins ( 54.6 x 59.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $70,800.00
Sale date: November 20th 2018
FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL
Bracken, Lansing
oil on panel
signed and dated 1923 lower right; signed, titled and the Estate stamp on the reverse
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $69,000.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD
Daybreak (Modality Series)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1936 lower left; signed and titled on the reverse; signed, titled and inscribed “May Morning” on the stretcher
21.75 x 17.5 ins ( 55.2 x 44.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $69,000.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
KIM DORLAND
Green Tree Blue Tree
oil, acrylic and spray paint on wood panel
signed, titled and dated 2009 on the reverse
60 x 60 ins ( 152.4 x 152.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $66,000.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
DORIS JEAN MCCARTHY
Reflections in the Melt Water
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; dated “840722” (July 22, 1984) on the reverse
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $64,900.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Afterglow, Moose Lake
oil on canvas
signed lower right
24 x 30 ins ( 61 x 76.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $63,250.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
ANDY WARHOL
Howdy Doody (from the Myth Series) (F&S II.263)
colour screenprint with diamond dust on Lenox Museum Board
signed, numbered 124/200 and stamped with Andy Warhol copyright stamp 1981 on the reverse. Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York
38 x 38 ins ( 96.5 x 96.5 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $55,000.00 - $75,000.00
Price Realized $60,000.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Non Objective (Bluish)
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
41.5 x 23.25 ins ( 105.4 x 59.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $60,000.00
Sale date: December 3rd 2020
CHRISTIAN MARCEL BARBEAU
Rétine Ying Yang
acrylic on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1966 on the reverse
54 x 54 ins ( 137.2 x 137.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $60,000.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL
Study of Trees, Autumn (circa 1920-22)
oil on beaverboard
signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed “Sketch” and “OS39” with the artist estate stamp on the reverse
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $60,000.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
JEAN ALBERT MCEWEN
Tableaux sans paroles #3
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1973 on the reverse
40 x 40 ins ( 101.6 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00
Price Realized $59,000.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Five Colour Prints (1965 Portfolio)
complete set of five colour serigraphs
“Red Sash- New York 1962”, “Red Stripes- New York 1962”, “Red Orange Green- 1963”, “Nice Pink- 1965”, “Stripes to the Right- 1965”; each signed, dated 1965 and numbered 57/100, housed in the original portfolio
26 x 20.5 ins ( 66 x 52.1 cms ) ( each )
Auction Estimate: $15,000.00 - $20,000.00
Price Realized $57,500.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: June 15, 2022
- 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
- Artwork from a Canadian Private Collection (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 15, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 15, 2020
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: December 3, 2020
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- Canadian & International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 17, 2020
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 27, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 29, 2020
- Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 11, 2020
- Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 14, 2020
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 23, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 2, 2020
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 12, 2020
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 14, 2020
- Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 18, 2020
- From the Collection of Paul Duval (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2020
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2019
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2019
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 20, 2018
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 29, 2018
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 23, 2017
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 25, 2017
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2016
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 31, 2016
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 25, 2015
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2015
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 28, 2014
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 29, 2014
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 29, 2013
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