Past Auction Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold through past Cowley Abbott Canadian Art auctions or through the private sale process. Select an artwork for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
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
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
JAMES WILSON MORRICE
A Bridge in London (ca. 1913-15)
oil on board
“Studio / J.W. Morrice” stamp on the reverse
11 x 14 ins ( 27.9 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $50,000.00 - $70,000.00
Price Realized $192,000.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
KIM DORLAND
Alley
oil and acrylic on canvas mounted to board
signed, titled and dated 2006 on the reverse; signed, titled and dated 2006 along the upper edge; unframed
60 x 48 ins ( 152.4 x 121.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $31,200.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
ANTOINE SEBASTIAN PLAMONDON
Le flûtiste (The Flute Player)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1868 lower right
42.25 x 33.5 ins ( 107.3 x 85.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00
Price Realized $120,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE
Arc De Triomphe Wrapped (Project for Paris)(Schellman 144)
lithograph in colours with collage of broadcloth, thread, and city map with hand-colouring and charcoal editions mounted on board (as issued)
signed, numbered LP 12/20 and dated 1989 lower right; Printer: Landfall Press, Chicago; Publisher: Torsten Lilja, Stockholm
28 x 22 ins ( 71.1 x 55.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $16,000.00
Price Realized $22,800.00
Sale date: September 28th 2021
TOM THOMSON
Fallen Timber (Algonquin)
oil on canvas, laid down on paperboard
inscribed “Gordon Harkness” and signed and inscribed by Thoreau MacDonald on the reverse; catalogue raisonne number 1912.02
6 x 9.25 ins ( 15.2 x 23.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00
Price Realized $125,000.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Byng Inlet
oil on board
signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
12 x 15 ins ( 30.5 x 38.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $14,000.00 - $18,000.00
Price Realized $29,900.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
SOREL ETROG
Study for Hasidic Head
bronze
stamped signature and edition (3/7) on the base
13 x 11 x 10.5 ins ( 33 x 27.9 x 26.7 cms ) ( overall, including base )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $25,000.00
Price Realized $18,250.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 23, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 2, 2020
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 14, 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 (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 25, 2015
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2015
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 28, 2014
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 29, 2014
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