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.

Artwork by  Books and Reference, Seven Canadian Art Reference Books
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Seven Canadian Art Reference Books

seven books
- “Joe Norris: Painted Visions of Nova Scotia” (Bernard Riordon, Goose Lane Ed., Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2000);
- “The Cremation of Sam McGee” (Robert W. Service, Ted Harrison [illustrations], Kids Can Press, Toronto, 1986);
- “Wake of the Great Sealers: Prints and Drawings by David Blackwood” (Farley Mowat, McLelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1973);
- “J.W. Beatty 1869-1941” (Dorothy M. Farr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, 1981);
- “Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm” (Harold Town and David P. Silcox, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1977);
- “Canadian Water Colour Painting” (Paul Duval, Burns and MacEachern, Toronto, 1954 - signed by the author on the title page);
- “Portrait of a Period: A Collection of Notman Photographs: 1856-1915” (J. Russell; Harper and Stanley Triggs [ed.], McGill University Press, Montreal, 1967)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00$200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by  Books and Reference, Eight Canadian Art Reference Books
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Eight Canadian Art Reference Books

eight books
- “A Concise History of Canadian Painting: Second Ediiton” (Dennis Reid, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, 1988);
- “Breaking Barriers: Eric Brown and the National Gallery” (F. Maud Brown, The Society for Art Publications, 1964);
- “Passionate Spirits: A History of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. 1880-1980” (Rebecca Sisler, Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd., Toronto/Vancouver, 1980);
- “Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century” (Joan Murphy, Dundurn Press, Toronto and Oxford, 1999);- “Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942: Dreaming the Landscape” (Hélène Sicotte and Michèle Grandbois, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2006);- “Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000” (Anne Newlands, Firefly Books, Williowdale, 2000);- “The Development of Canadian Art” (R.H. Hubbard, Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1964);
- “The Great Adventure: 100 Years at The Arts & Letters Club” (Margaret McBurney, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, 2007)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00$200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by  Canadian School, Scenes of Victoria, British Columbia
CANADIAN SCHOOL
Scenes of Victoria, British Columbia

nine watercolours on paper
“Broom & Wild Roses, Victoria B.C.” (numbered “1” in the upper margin; sheet size - 4 ins x 2.5 ins)
“Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C.” (numbered indistinctly in the upper margin; sheet size - 3.25 ins x 2.75 ins)
“Mt. Baker from Oak Bay, Victoria, B.C.” (numbered “3” in the upper margin; sheet size - 3 ins x 3.5 ins)
“The Olympics from Victoria, B.C.” (numbered indistinctly in the upper margin; sheet size - 3.25 ins x 2.75 ins)
“The Olympics from Victoria, B.C.” (numbered “6” in the upper margin; sheet size - 4 ins x 2.75 ins)
“The Olympics from Victoria, B.C.” (sheet size - 3.5 ins x 2.75 ins)
“Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C.” (sheet size - 3 ins x 3.5 ins)
“Mt. Baker from Victoria, B.C.” (sheet size - 2.75 ins x 3.5 ins)
“The Olympics from Victoria, B.C.” (sheet size - 3.5 ins x 2.75 ins)

each signed with the initials “E.F.” in the lower right subject and titled in the lower margin; all unframed
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Auction Estimate: $150.00$100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by  Books and Reference, Eleven Inuit Art Reference Books
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Eleven Inuit Art Reference Books

eleven books
- “Povungnituk 1975” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1975);
- “Povungnituk 1976” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1976);
- “Povungnituk 1980” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1980);
- ”Arctic Quebec 1972” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1972);
- ”Arctic Quebec 1973” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1973);
- ”Arctic Quebec 1974” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1974);
- ”Inoucdjouac 1976” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Montreal, 1976);
- ”Canadian Eskimo Artifacts” (Canadian Arctic Producers, Ottawa, 1973);
- ”Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective” (Jean Blodgett and Marie Bouchard, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986);
- ”Kenojuak” (Jean Blodgett, Firefly Books, Toronto, 1985);
- ”Eskimo” (Edmund Carpenter, Frederick Varley and Robert Flaherty, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1959)

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Auction Estimate: $250.00$150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, Mountain Peak
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
Mountain Peak

watercolour
unsigned; unframed
6.75 x 10 ins ( 17.1 x 25.4 cms ) ( sheet )

Auction Estimate: $300.00$200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, Street Scene in Winter
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
Street Scene in Winter

watercolour, laid down on board
unsigned; unframed
9.75 x 8.25 ins ( 24.8 x 21 cms ) ( board )

Auction Estimate: $300.00$200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by  Books and Reference, Seven Inuit Art Reference Books
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Seven Inuit Art Reference Books

seven books
- “Images, Stone, B.C.: Thirty Centuries of Northwest Coast Indian Sculpture” (Wilson Duff, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1975) -signed by Doris de Pedery-Hunt on the first page;
- “1960 Povungnituk 1970” (La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau Québec, Levis, 1960);
- “Out of Tradition” (Abraham Anghik and David Ruben Piqtoukun, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 1989) -signed by the artists on the title page;
- “Eskimo Sculpture” (Jorgen Meldgaard, Methuen & Co., London, 1960);
- “Pitseolak: Pictures out of my Life” (Dorothy Eber, Oxford University Press, Toronto) -signed in syllabics by the artist on the first page;
- “Fire into Ice: Adventures in Glass Making” (James Houston, Tundra Books, Toronto, 1998);
- “The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture” (Harold Seidelman and James Turner, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver and Toronto, 1993)
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Auction Estimate: $250.00$150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by  Books and Reference, A Collection of Ten Art Books & Materials
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
A Collection of Ten Art Books & Materials

books and publications
- “William G. R. Hind: The Pictou Sketchbook, Le Carnet Pictou” (Catherine M. Mastin, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, 1990);
- “Charlevoix County, 1930” (Jori Smith, Penumbra Press, 1998);
- “E. J. Hughes: 1931-1982” (Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, 1983);
- “The Privileged Few: The Grange & its People in Nineteenth Century Toronto” (John Lownsbrough, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1980);
- “The Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C.”
- “Augustus John: The Marchesa Casati” (Art Gallery of Ontario Collection in Focus, Number Four, 1987);
- “Frances Anne Hopkins 1838-1919: Canadian Scenery” (Janet E. Clark and Robert Stacey, Thunderbay Art Gallery, Thunderbay, 1990);
- “Ozias Leduc: An Art of Love and Reverie” (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée du Québec, Montreal, 1996);
- “Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918” (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts/Somohy Art Publishers, Montreal, 2009);
- “The Mountains and the Sky” (Lorne E. Render, Glenbow-Alberta Institute, McClelland & Stewart West, 1974)
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Auction Estimate: $175.00$125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by  Books and Reference, Seven Indigenous Art Reference Books
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Seven Indigenous Art Reference Books

seven books
- “The Sacred Scrolls of the Southern Ojibway” (Selwyn Dewdney, University of Toronto Press, Toronto & Buffalo, 1975);
- “Tales from the Smokehouse” (Herbert T. Schwarz, illustrated by Daphne Odjig, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1974);
- “Images: Stone: B.C.” (Wilson Duff, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1975);
- “Rock Drawings of the MicMac Indians” (Marion Robertson, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, 1973);
- “Norval Morrisseau and the Emergence of the Image Makers” (Elizabeth McLuhan and Tom Hill, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1984);
- “Stones, Bones and Skin: Ritual and Shamanic Art” (ArtsCanada, Dec. 1973/ Jan. 1974);
- “The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First People” (Glenbow Museum, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1987)
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Auction Estimate: $250.00$150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $94.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Davidialuk Alasua Amittu, Winter Igloo
DAVIDIALUK ALASUA AMITTU
Winter Igloo

stonecut
inscribed “Davidialuk/Louise Quatsalik”, titled, dated 1978, numbered 32/40, inscribed “Povungnituk” and inscribed in syllabics in the lower margin
7.5 x 9.5 ins ( 19.1 x 24.1 cms ) ( sight )

Auction Estimate: $125.00$75.00 - $125.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Harold Barling Town, Design for Menue
HAROLD BARLING TOWN
Design for Menue

lithograph
signed and dated “4.3.57” upper left
9.75 x 6.25 ins ( 24.8 x 15.9 cms ) ( sight )

Auction Estimate: $125.00$75.00 - $125.00
Price Realized $59.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Yousuf Karsh, The Right Honourable Roland Michener and Norah Willis Michener
YOUSUF KARSH
The Right Honourable Roland Michener and Norah Willis Michener

gelatin silver print
signed by the artist and sitters in the lower margin
6.75 x 5 ins ( 17.1 x 12.7 cms ) ( plate size )

Auction Estimate: $700.00$500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Alex Cameron, Abstraction
ALEX CAMERON
Abstraction

watercolour
signed and dated “Dec. 1981” lower right
19.5 x 26.25 ins ( 49.5 x 66.7 cms )

Auction Estimate: $700.00$500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Jack Leonard Shadbolt, Blue Theme on Red
JACK LEONARD SHADBOLT
Blue Theme on Red

gouache on paper
signed and dated ‘61 lower right; titled and dated to the paper backing on the reverse
18.75 x 24.75 ins ( 47.6 x 62.9 cms ) ( sight )

Auction Estimate: $3,000.00$2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,124.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Artwork by Josef Albers, Variants 1967: IX
JOSEF ALBERS
Variants 1967: IX

colour silkscreen
numbered 264/300 within the lower left margin; titled, dated and numbered to a label on the reverse
8.75 x 13 ins ( 22.2 x 33 cms ) ( image )

Auction Estimate: $1,200.00$900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $752.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020

Previous Auctions

Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.

Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
 
En plein air (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
 
Watercolours & Drawings (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
 
Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
 
Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
 
20th Century Works on Paper (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
 
The Academy (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
 
Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
 
The Collection of Joe & Anita Robertson (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: December 12, 2023
 
Bidding in a Winter Wonderland (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: December 12, 2023
 
An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)
Sale Closed: December 6, 2023
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Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art (Session 1)
Sale Closed: December 6, 2023
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Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
 
British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
 
Toronto: Represented and Abstracted (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
 
Auction to Benefit NSCAD (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
 
Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
 
Artwork from a Private Collection (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
 
Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
 
Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
 
Little Pictures (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
 
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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An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (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
 

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