February Auction of Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction) Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our February Auction of Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction) which concluded on February 18, 2020. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Two Works: Design for Christmas Card; Timber Line
gouache; etching
“Design for Christmas Card” - gouache, signed lower left, titled on label on the reverse, 5.75 x 5.25 ins (Exhibited: Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Seventh Annual Exhibition, Toronto, 1930)
Sold together with: “Timber Line” - etching, signed, titled and numbered “no 18” in the lower margin, 11.5 x 8.25 ins sheet size, unframed
11.5 x 8.25 ins ( 29.2 x 21 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
GEORGES ROUAULT
Harlequin and Dog
colour screenprint
unframed
26 x 17 ins ( 66 x 43.2 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
9 Volumes on Printmaking
9 books
“lithographies gravures, livres” by Galerie Maeght Lelong, 1985; “Catalogue des Lithographies et Eaux-fortes originals” edited by Maeght, 1971; “Florilege des Amours de Ronsard par Henri Matisse”, by Albert Skira, 1948; “Kathe Kollwitz Grafik Teckningar Skulpturer,” by Käthe Kollwitz, 1967; “Franz Marc: 1880-1916” by Mark Rosenthal, 1980; “The Print in Germany 1880-1933,” Frances Carey and Anthony Griffiths, 1984; “Edouard Manet Graphic Works a Definitive Catalogue Raisonne,” by Jean C. Harris,1970; “Kathe Kollwitz”- exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, 1962; “Kathe Kollwitz: Drawings” by Herbert Bittner, New Yor, 1959
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Selection of 22 Books and Pamphlets on Canadian Art
“Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm” signed by the authors on the title page - (Harold Town and David P. Silcox, McLelland and Stewart, 1977); “Edward S. Curtis: Above the Medicine Line” (Rodger D. Touchie, Heritage House Publishing, 2010); “History in their Blood: Nicholas de Grandmaison” (Hugh A. Dempsey, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1982); “People of the Willow: The Padlimiut Tribe of the Caribou Eskimo” (Winifred Petchey Marsh, Anglican Book Centre, 1983); “Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822” (edited by C. Stuart Houston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994); “Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit” (exhibition catalogue, Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984); “Paul Kane: 1810-1871” (exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, 1971); “Eskimo Sculpture” (Jorgen Meldgaard, London Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960); “The Drawings of Jasper Johns” (exhibition pamphlet for Hayward Gallery and South Bank Centre London, 1990); “Northwest Coast Gallery” (ROM pamphlet, 1976); 14 pamphlets on Inuit artists (Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. - Nouveya Ipellie, Pangnirtung, Clyde River, Mark Uqayuittaq, Igloolik, Davie Atchealak, Marie Kuunnuaq, George Arluk, Elisapee Ishuluktak, Mark Uqayuittaq, Gjoa Haven, Matthew Aqiggaaq, Holman, Sanikiluaq Belcher Islands)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
HENRY JOHN SIMPKINS
Summer Landscape with House
watercolour
signed and dated lower left, unframed
10.75 x 14.75 ins ( 27.3 x 37.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
Village Scene
watercolour on board
unsigned; unframed
7.25 x 10.5 ins ( 18.4 x 26.7 cms ) ( board )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
FRANK MILTON ARMINGTON
Meditation
etching
signed, dated 1913 and inscribed “Special print for my dear Carrie from Frank” in pencil in the lower margin; signed, titled and dated within the print top left; with Janet Braide and Nancy Parke-Taylor, “Caroline and Frank Armington: Canadian painter-etchers in Paris”, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario, 1990.
9.25 x 7 ins ( 23.5 x 17.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
FRANK MILTON ARMINGTON
La Pluie, Place de la Concorde, Paris
etching
signed, titled and dated 1924 in the plate
8.25 x 11.25 ins ( 21 x 28.6 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
DORIS JEAN MCCARTHY
Three books devoted to the artist and her work
three books
“Celebrating Life: The Art of Doris McCarthy” (The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Canada, 2002 - reprint of the 1999 publication); “Doris McCarthy: Feast of Incarnation Paintings 1929-1989” (the Gallery/Stratford, 1991); “Doris McCarthy: The View from Here” (Art Gallery of Mississauga, 1999)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $50.00 - $75.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
DONALD APPELBE SMITH
Farm, Winter
watercolour
signed and dated 1961 lower left
9 x 11.5 ins ( 22.9 x 29.2 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
MATHIAS MULEME
The Flutist
colour etching
signed, titled and dated 1995 in the lower margin
11.5 x 3.5 ins ( 29.2 x 8.9 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $25.00 - $35.00
Price Realized $86.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
MAURICE ESTÈVE
Estève, Peintures 1935-1947, Galerie Louis Carré
poster
exhibition poster printed by Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris, unframed
30.5 x 20.5 ins ( 77.5 x 52.1 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $83.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Collection of Canadian Art Reference Materials
five catalogues/books
“Catalogue of the Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of The Ontario Society of Artists, 1922”; “Painters of Quebec” (Marius Barbeau, Canadian Art Series, Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1945); “The Rebel Princess, Watercolour by HRH The Princess Louise” (The Bermuda National Gallery, Bermuda, January 24-April 11, 1998); “Nicholas Hornyansky Retrospective 1926-1965”; “Côté The Wood Carver” (Marius Barbeau, Canadian Art Series, Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1943)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $71.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
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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