August Auction of Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction) Highlights

This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our August Auction of Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction) which concluded on August 11, 2020. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.

Artwork by Frederick Stanley Haines, End of ‘Kantok’ Island, Wanapetei Bay
FREDERICK STANLEY HAINES
End of ‘Kantok’ Island, Wanapetei Bay

oil on canvas board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )

Auction Estimate: $7,000.00$5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $4,720.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Edward Scrope Shrapnel, Moose and Hunter
EDWARD SCROPE SHRAPNEL
Moose and Hunter

oil on canvas
signed and dated 1910 lower right
23.25 x 15 ins ( 59.1 x 38.1 cms )

Auction Estimate: $7,000.00$5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $4,720.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by David Brown Milne, Painting Place (Hilltop)
DAVID BROWN MILNE
Painting Place (Hilltop)

drypoint etching, printed in colours
signed in the lower margin
6 x 8 ins ( 15.2 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )

Auction Estimate: $1,200.00$800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,124.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Allen Sapp, Two Boys Sledding
ALLEN SAPP
Two Boys Sledding

oil on canvas
signed lower right
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )

Auction Estimate: $1,500.00$1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,006.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by John (Jack) Martin, Church at Westhill
JOHN (JACK) MARTIN
Church at Westhill

oil on canvas board
signed, titled and dated 1930-31 on the reverse
10 x 11.5 ins ( 25.4 x 29.2 cms )

Auction Estimate: $700.00$500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $1,888.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Ralph Wallace Burton, Road Blocked in between East Templeton and Masson, Que.
RALPH WALLACE BURTON
Road Blocked in between East Templeton and Masson, Que.

oil on board
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated 1953 on the reverse
10.5 x 13.5 ins ( 26.7 x 34.3 cms )

Auction Estimate: $900.00$700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $1,770.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Henriette Fauteux-Massé, L’Appel
HENRIETTE FAUTEUX-MASSÉ
L’Appel

acrylic and oil on paper
signed lower right in the margin; titled and dated 1979 to a label on the reverse
13.25 x 9 ins ( 33.7 x 22.9 cms ) ( image )

Auction Estimate: $1,500.00$1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,652.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Paul Kelley, Young Girl on Blue Rug
PAUL KELLEY
Young Girl on Blue Rug

oil on board
signed lower left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )

Auction Estimate: $2,000.00$1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,652.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Liu  Gao Feng, Still Life on Chinese Table
LIU GAO FENG
Still Life on Chinese Table

oil on canvas
signed lower right
33.5 x 39 ins ( 85.1 x 99.1 cms )

Auction Estimate: $700.00$500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $1,652.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Henri Leopold Masson, Mother and Child
HENRI LEOPOLD MASSON
Mother and Child

oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated 1990 on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )

Auction Estimate: $1,000.00$800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $1,652.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Gordon McKinley Webber, Abstract Composition #2
GORDON MCKINLEY WEBBER
Abstract Composition #2

tempera and gum arabic on board
signed and dated 1956 lower right; signed, titled and dated on a label on the reverse; unframed
14.75 x 19.5 ins ( 37.5 x 49.5 cms )

Auction Estimate: $2,000.00$1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,180.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Bernice Fenwick Martin, Summer Landscape with House
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Summer Landscape with House

oil on board
signed lower right
8.5 x 10 ins ( 21.6 x 25.4 cms )

Auction Estimate: $900.00$700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $1,121.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Michael Thompson, Laetitia
MICHAEL THOMPSON
Laetitia

acrylic on board
signed and dated 1999 lower right; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
20 x 15 ins ( 50.8 x 38.1 cms )

Auction Estimate: $1,500.00$1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,062.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by Maurice Hall Haycock, Small Beaver Pond in Algonquin Park
MAURICE HALL HAYCOCK
Small Beaver Pond in Algonquin Park

oil on board
signed and dated 1967 lower left; dated “October 26, 1967” and inscribed “with A.Y. Jackson and Leo Mol” on the reverse
11 x 14 ins ( 27.9 x 35.6 cms )

Auction Estimate: $1,500.00$1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,062.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Artwork by  Books and Reference, 32 Canadian Art Reference Books and Materials
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
32 Canadian Art Reference Books and Materials

32 books and publications
-“Milne: Watercolours” (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, 1980);
-“David Milne 1882-1953” (travelling exhibition, 1967);
-“David B. Milne” (David P. Silcox, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, 1998);
-“Milne” (Alan Jarvis, The Gallery of Canadian Art: 3, 1962);
-“David Milne: City Streets and Northern Scenes” (Mira Godard Gallery, Calgary, 1981);
-”Photographs by Tom Thomson” (The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Bulletin 16/1970);
-”Lawren Harris: Paintings 1910-1948” (Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 1948);
-”Lawren Harris 1963” (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, 1963);
-”F.H. Varley: Paintings 1915-1954” (Art Gallery of Toronto, 1954);
-“Arthur Lismer: Watercolours” (Norah McCullough, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, 1987);
-”Arthur Lismer: Nova Scotia 1916-1919” (Gemey Kelly, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, 1982);
-”Arthur Lismer” (E.R. Hunter, The Granville Galleries, Halifax);
“Pungent Personalities: Arts & Letters Club Drawings by Arthur Lismer, 1922-43” (University of Toronto, Toronto, 2006);
-”A. Y. Jackson: Paintings 1902-1953” (Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1953);
-”The Queen Comes to New Brunswick: Paintings and Drawings by Molly Lamb Bobak” (Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, 1977-79);
-”Daniel Fowler in Canada: An Artist Afterall” (Dorothy M. Farr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 2006);
-”Fritz Brandtner 1896-1969” (A Retrospective Exhibition, travelling, 1971-2);
-”Fritz Brandtner: A Gift” (The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2003);
-“Hilton Hassell” (Kaspar Gallery, Toronto, 1981);
-”E.J. Hughes” (Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1967);
-”Clare Leighton” (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1992);
-”Richard Montpetit” (Gilles Archambault, Ciel d’images, Quebec, 1999);
-”Charles William Jeffreys 1869-1951” (Robert Stacey, travelling exhibition, 1976-77);
-”Fresh Water: A Journal of Great Lakes Marine History” (Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1991);
-”The National Gallery of Canada/The MacCallum-Jackman Donations” (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1969);
-”Important Exhibition of Canadian and European Masters” (Galerie Claude Lafitte, Montreal);
-”Artists of Distinction” (John A. Libby Fine Art, Toronto, 2011);
-”Hornyansky” (Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, 1978);
-”Art of the Grenfell Mission: The Robin Moore Collection” (Michael Donovan (pub.);
-”Lillian Freiman: Paintings and Drawings” (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 1978);
-”Etched in Stone: The Life and Prints of Ernst Neumann” (Brian I. Oickle, Montreal Print Collectors Society, 2004) - signed by the author in the title page;
-”Goodridge Roberts” (Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, 1984);
-”Henrietta Shore” (Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1986)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )

Auction Estimate: $175.00$125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $1,062.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020

Previous Auctions

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Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
 
Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
 
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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
 
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Sale Closed: December 13, 2022
 
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Sale Closed: December 13, 2022
 
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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
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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
 
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Sale Closed: December 15, 2020
 
Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
Sale Closed: December 3, 2020
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Sale Closed: November 17, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: September 29, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: September 24, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: August 11, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: June 23, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: June 2, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: April 14, 2020
 
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Sale Closed: January 28, 2020
 
Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
Sale Closed: November 19, 2019
 
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Sale Closed: May 29, 2018
 
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