Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art (Live Auction) Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art (Live Auction) which concluded on May 25, 2017. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE
Crow With A Silver Spoon
colour serigraph
signed, dated 1972 and numbered 15/70 in the lower margin
18 x 18 ins ( 45.7 x 45.7 cms ) ( diameter )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $10,350.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Wolf in Winter
gouache on card
signed lower right
8.5 x 10.25 ins ( 21.6 x 26 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $9,775.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
MAXWELL BENNETT BATES
Northern Painting
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1960 lower right; titled on the stretcher
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $9,200.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
MARC-AURÈLE FORTIN
Paysage d’ete
oil on panel
signed lower left
6.25 x 9.25 ins ( 15.9 x 23.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $9,200.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
CHARLES FRASER COMFORT
Northern Silence
oil on canvas
signed lower right
20 x 26 ins ( 50.8 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $9,200.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
CLARENCE ALPHONSE GAGNON
Dover Mountains, Norway
oil on board
certified by Lucile Rodier Gagnon (no. 525) on a label the reverse
4.75 x 7 ins ( 12.1 x 17.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $8,625.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
FREDERICK WILLIAM HUTCHISON
Cutting the Mid Summer Hay
oil on canvas
17 x 101 ins ( 43.2 x 256.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $8,050.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
MAXWELL BENNETT BATES
House by the Sea
oil on board
signed and dated 1952 lower right
24 x 20 ins ( 61 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $8,050.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
MAUD LEWIS
Children Walking in the Snow
mixed media on beaver board
signed lower right
12 x 15.75 ins ( 30.5 x 40 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $8,050.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
HENRIETTA MABEL MAY
Shoreline Landscape / Farm Scene
double-sided oil on panel
signed lower left; an unsigned farm landscape on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $8,050.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
EDWARD JOHN HUGHES
Robson River
graphite
signed and dated 1955 lower right
15.75 x 13.5 ins ( 40 x 34.3 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $8,050.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
JEAN LEFÉBURE
La fille du briquetier
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1963 lower right; signed, titled and dated 1963 on the stretcher
31.75 x 39 ins ( 80.6 x 99.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $8,050.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
MAUD LEWIS
Winter Sleighing Scene
mixed media on masonite
signed lower right
12 x 15.75 ins ( 30.5 x 40 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $7,475.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- 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
- 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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