July Auction of Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction) Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our July Auction of Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction) which concluded on July 14, 2020. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
RODOLPHE DUGUAY
Le Benedicite; Le quêteux
pair of woodblock prints
each signed and titled within the margin of the plate; each unframed (affixed to supports)
7.5 x 8.5 ins ( 19.1 x 21.6 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $350.00 - $450.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
The Manoir Richelieu
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed (incised) lower right; titled on the reverse; unframed
4 x 5.75 ins ( 10.2 x 14.6 cms ) ( board )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
HERBERT RAINE
Houses on the Hill, Beaupré, P.Q.; Rivière Blanche, P.Q.; Near St. Joachim, P.Q.
3 etchings
“Houses on the Hill, Beaupré, P.Q.” (3 x 4.5 ins. [plate] signed and titled in the lower margin);
“Rivière Blanche, P.Q.” (3 x 4.75 ins. [plate] signed and titled in the lower margin);
“Near St. Joachim, P.Q.” (3.5 x 4.5 ins. [plate] signed and titled in the lower margin);
all three framed together
3.5 x 4.5 ins ( 8.9 x 11.4 cms ) ( plate size (largest) )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Untitled (Tree of Life)
ink on paper
signed and dated 1958 lower right
9 x 11 ins ( 22.9 x 27.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
CARL BEAM
The Way of the Cross
mixed media on paper
signed lower right; artist’s seal lower left; unframed
15 x 12 ins ( 38.1 x 30.5 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
CARL BEAM
Indian Residential Schools
mixed media on paper
signed lower right; artist’s seal lower left; unframed
11.5 x 15.5 ins ( 29.2 x 39.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $266.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
HENRY JOHN SIMPKINS
Market Scene
watercolour
signed lower right
19 x 26 ins ( 48.3 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $266.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
JOHN CARL HEYWOOD
Still Life with Glass Bottle and Guitar (A Study in Surfaces)
screenprint
signed, titled, dated 1999 and numbered 10/50 in pencil in the lower margin
27.5 x 35.5 ins ( 69.9 x 90.2 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Six Group of Seven Art Reference Books
six books
-“A.J. Casson: His Life and Works, A Tribute” (Paul Duval, Cerebrus/Prentice-Hall, Toronto, 1980), signed by A.J. Casson on the title page;
- “The Tangled Garden: The Art of J.E.H. MacDonald” (Paul Duval, Cerebrus/Prentice-Hall, Toronto, 1978);
- “Frederick H. Varley” (Peter Varley, Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1983), signed by the author;
- “F.H. Varley: Portraits into the Light” (Katerina Atanassova, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2007);
- “F.H. Varley: A Centennial Exhibition” (The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1981);
- “The Group of Seven in Western Canada” (Catharine M. Mastin (ed.), Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2002, 2008)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Picasso 347
two oblong folios
Contains 347 black and white illustrations by the artist. Random House/Maecenas Press, New York (1970); First Edition; folios contained within original clamshell box
17.5 x 12.5 ins ( 44.5 x 31.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
GRAHAM NOBLE NORWELL
Winter, Laurentians
watercolour
signed lower right
12.5 x 16 ins ( 31.8 x 40.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $250.00 - $350.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Two Books by Paul Duval
- “Canadian Impressionism” (McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1990) (signed by the author on the title page) (in original box)
- “Berryman Street Boy, Growing Up in Yorkville”, volume 238/760 (Von Lotz Publishing Inc.; Sommerville Publishing, 2000) (signed by the author on the title page)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $236.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
A Selection of Ten Canadian Art Reference Books
ten books
- “Landscape into Art” (Kenneth Clark, John Murray, London, 1949);
- “Old Manors, Old Houses” (Historic Monuments Commission of the Province of Quebec, L.A. Proulx, 1927);
- “L’Ile D’Orleans” (Historic Monuments Commission of the Province of Quebec, L.A. Proulx, 1928);
- “Sigmund Samuel Collection: Canadiana and Americana” (Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1948);
- “Art et non finito” (Guy Robert, Editions France-Amerique, Montreal, 1984, signed by the author on the title page);
- “100 Masters: Only in Canada” (Stephen Borys, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2013);
- “Caroline and Frank Armington” (Janet Braide and Nancy Parke-Taylor, Art Gallery of Peel, 1990);
- “150 Years of Art in Manitoba” (The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 1970);
- “The Face of Early Canada” (F. St. George Spendlove, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1958);
- “W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana” (Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1983)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $207.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
HERBERT RAINE
Notre Dame, Montreal, PQ
etching
signed and titled in the lower margin
8 x 8.75 ins ( 20.3 x 22.2 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $207.00
Sale date: July 14th 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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