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.
VICTOR VASARELY
Gold Structure (from CTA 102)
colour serigraph
signed in pencil in the lower margin; titled to gallery label on the reverse
27.25 x 27.25 ins ( 69.2 x 69.2 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $944.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
TOM THOMSON
Joe Creek
silkscreen
Sampson Matthews; artist name, title and “Issued by the National Gallery of Canada” printed in the margin; a Sampson Matthews label on the reverse, unframed
19.75 x 27 ins ( 50.2 x 68.6 cms ) ( card )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $944.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
A.J. Casson: The Group of Seven Commemorative Anniversary Suite; Folio One: Oil Paintings
“The Client”; “Ice Hummocks”; “Thunderheads”; “North Channel”; “Mill Lake”; “Village Mosaic”; “Aftermath”; each signed with initials, titled and numbered AP 43/75 in pencil in the lower margin; housed in card portfolio box with cover page; all unframed
25.5 x 30 ins ( 64.8 x 76.2 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $944.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
DORIS JEAN MCCARTHY
Connamara Flock
watercolour
signed lower right; titled on gallery label on the reverse
4.75 x 6.75 ins ( 12.1 x 17.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $885.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
YOUSUF KARSH
Vincent Massey
gelatin silver print
signed and autographed by the sitter in black ink in the lower margin; with studio stamp on the reverse
16.75 x 13.5 ins ( 42.5 x 34.3 cms ) ( plate/sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $885.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
ANNE MEREDITH BARRY
Conception Bay Waterfall; Change Islands, Summer
two colour lithographs
“Conception Bay Waterfall” (signed, titled, dated 1992 lower right and numbered 16/20 in pencil in the lower margin, 19.5 x 27.25 inches); “Change Islands, Summer” (signed, titled, dated 1992 lower right and numbered 14/30 in pencil in the lower margin, 17.75 x 23.5 inches)
19.5 x 27.25 ins ( 49.5 x 69.2 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
JOYCE WIELAND
Film Strip Sketch, 1960s
ink on paper
signed lower right
7.5 x 8.25 ins ( 19.1 x 21 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
VICTOR VASARELY
Rubin (from Lapidaire)
colour serigraph
signed and numbered 103/150 in pencil in the lower margin; titled to gallery label on the reverse
32.5 x 29 ins ( 82.6 x 73.7 cms ) ( sheet sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
JOYCE WIELAND
Canada Libre
ink on paper
signed lower right; unframed
8.5 x 10.75 ins ( 21.6 x 27.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
DORIS JEAN MCCARTHY
Sailboats (Riding at St. Tropez)
watercolour and marker
signed lower right; dated “51224” (February 24, 1951) on the reverse; inscribed “Riding at St. Tropez” on the reverse of the original matting included with this lot; sketching in marker visible within the composition; unframed
15 x 22 ins ( 38.1 x 55.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
JOHN SCOTT
Standing Figure
ink on paper
35.75 x 24 ins ( 90.8 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $708.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
A Selection of Six Works
six etchings
Western University (signed and titled, 7 ins x 5.5 ins plate size); Lower Town, Quebec “No. 5” (signed, 8.25 ins x 6 ins plate size); Timber Line, Banff (signed, titled, dated 1924 and numbered 1/50, 7 ins x 6.25 ins); St. Anne de Beaupré (signed, titled and numbered 39/50, 11 ins x 8 ins); sold together with two additional signed, untitled etchings (3 ins x 3 ins; 4 ins x 5 ins)
10.75 x 8 ins ( 27.3 x 20.3 cms ) ( largest (subject) )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $708.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
Limehouse Hole
watercolour
signed lower right; titled lower left; inscribed “ Foggy Day on the Thames” top right
7 x 9.75 ins ( 17.8 x 24.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $708.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
ALBERT DUMOUCHEL
Les remparts d’Avila
etching
signed, titled, inscribed “epreuve d’etat no. 6” and dated 1961 in pencil in the lower margin
19.5 x 12.5 ins ( 49.5 x 31.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $708.00
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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