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.
KAKULU SAGGIAKTOK, ULAYU PINGWARTOK, EEGYVUDLUK POOTOOGOOK
Faces; Woman Sewing Kamiks; Young Bears at Play
three stonecuts
“Faces” (stonecut, signed, titled, dated 1976 and inscribed 7/50 in pencil in the lower margin, 22.5 x 33 inches sight); “Woman Sewing Kamiks” (stonecut, signed, titled, dated 1976 and numbered 27/50 in pencil in the lower margin, 24 x 31.75 inches sight); “Young Bears at Play” (stonecut; signed, titled, dated 1978 and numbered 39/50 in pencil in the lower margin, 11.75 x 33 inches sight)
24 x 31.75 ins ( 61 x 80.6 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $590.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
GORDON APPELBE SMITH
Winter Sea
colour silkscreen
signed, titled and inscribed “A/P” in the lower margin; unframed
13.5 x 14.75 ins ( 34.3 x 37.5 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $590.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
HERBERT SIDNEY PALMER
Seated Nude, Side Facing
pastel
signed, titled and dated on a Roberts Gallery label affixed to the reverse
11.25 x 8.5 ins ( 28.6 x 21.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $531.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
LILLIAN FREIMAN
Woman with Bonnet
pastel
signed lower right
14 x 13 ins ( 35.6 x 33 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $531.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
CLARENCE ALPHONSE GAGNON
Village in Winter
sampson-matthews silkscreen
condition noted: damage to image layer at lower edges of the artwork; unframed
19.5 x 28.5 ins ( 49.5 x 72.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $531.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
LOUIS MUHLSTOCK
Reclining Figure; Portrait of a Man
two charcoal drawings
“Reclining Figure” (charcoal on paper, signed lower left, sight 5.25 x 9.75 inches); “Portrait of a Man” (charcoal on paper, signed and dated 1943 to the right, sight 15 x 12.75 inches)
15 x 12.75 ins ( 38.1 x 32.4 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $525.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
BRUNO CÔTÉ
Baie de Fundy; Landscape with Trees; Landscape with Lake
three pencil sketches
“Baie de Fundy” (signed and titled in the lower margin, sight 5.25 x 6.25 inches); “Landscape with Trees” (signed and indistinctly titled in the lower margin, sight 3.75 x 7 inches); “Landscape with Lake” (signed lower right, sight 3.75 x 7 inches)
5.25 x 6.25 ins ( 13.3 x 15.9 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Early Snow; Mill House; Haliburton; Autumn Decorations
four colour serigraphs
each signed with initials, titled and numbered: “Early Snow” AP 37/60; “Mill House” AP 34/60; “Haliburton” AP 35/60; “Autumn Decorations” AP 38/60; each unframed
20 x 24 ins ( 50.8 x 61 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $450.00 - $550.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
STANLEY MOREL COSGROVE
Collection of Five Assorted Landscapes and a Still-Life
five colour lithographs
“Les Arbres” (colour lithograph, signed, dated 1993 and inscribed “EA 2/10” in pencil in the lower margin, 23.75 x 19.75 inches (sheet));
“Country Road” (colour lithograph, signed with initials, dated 1994, inscribed “EA 16/25” in pencil in the lower margin, 25 x 18.75 inches (sheet));
“Still-Life with Jug and Apple” (colour lithograph, signed with initials, dated 1994, inscribed “EA 16/25” in pencil in the lower margin, 18.75 x 25 inches (sheet);
“Les Arbres” (colour lithograph, signed with initials, dated 1994, inscribed “EA 17/25” in pencil in the lower margin, 18.75 x 25 inches (sheet));
“Copse of Trees” (colour lithograph, signed with initials, dated 1994, inscribed “EA 17/25” in pencil in the lower margin, 25 x 18.75 inches (sheet));
each unframed
25 x 18.75 ins ( 63.5 x 47.6 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Annables General Store; Village House; Sunshine After Rain
three colour serigraphs
each signed with initials, titled and numbered: “Annables General Store” AP 38/60; “Village Store” AP 37/60; “Sunshine After Rain” AP 36/60; each unframed
20 x 24 ins ( 50.8 x 61 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
JAMES WILSON MORRICE
The Ferry, Quebec
sampson-matthews silkscreen
artist name, title and “Issued by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa” printed in the margin; a Sampson Matthews label on the reverse
29.75 x 40.25 ins ( 75.6 x 102.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
ALEXANDRE BERCOVITCH
Newfoundland VII
watercolour and graphite on paper
signed lower right; titled on a label affixed to the reverse
7.5 x 9.5 ins ( 19.1 x 24.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $443.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
LEONARD HUTCHINSON
Van Wagner’s Beach
colour woodcut
signed and titled in the lower margin
10.5 x 8.25 ins ( 26.7 x 21 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $443.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
HERBERT RAINE
Bonsecours, Montreal, P.Q.
etching
signed and titled in the lower margin
8.25 x 6.25 ins ( 21 x 15.9 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $413.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- The Art of Europe (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- Artwork from an Important Private Collection (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auctions)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Peaks to Prairies: Art of Western Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- 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
( Download PDF )
- 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
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