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.
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: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
Mountain Peak
watercolour
unsigned; unframed
6.75 x 10 ins ( 17.1 x 25.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $94.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $75.00 - $125.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $75.00 - $125.00
Price Realized $59.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,124.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
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: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $752.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
Previous Auctions
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- Past and Present: International Art from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- The Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- In the Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Artwork from the Estate of Jaan Poldaas (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Abstract vs. Figural: Prints from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- A Modern Eye: Canadian Art from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Drawn to Places: Landscapes on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Holiday Sale (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Photography from the Collection of Salah Bachir (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: November 27, 2024
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Works for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Canadian Abstraction (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)_
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Picasso & His Contemporaries (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Mousseau and Friends (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Grand Tour (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Works from the Estate of William Ronald (Part II) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Spring Live Auction (Session 1 & 2)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Group of Seven (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Works from the Estate of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Artwork of David Blackwood (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Modern Forms (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- International Prints, Multiples & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- La belle province (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Artwork for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- 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
- 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
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