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.
LAWRENCE ARTHUR COLLEY PANTON
Silver Stream
sampson matthews silkscreen
artist name, title and “Issued by the National Gallery of Canada” printed in the margin, signed within the plate; a Sampson Matthews label on the reverse; unframed
20.25 x 27 ins ( 51.4 x 68.6 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Sunlit Isle
lithograph
signed and numbered “218/300” in the lower margin; titled and dated to a label on the reverse
8.25 x 10.25 ins ( 21 x 26 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
BARKER FAIRLEY
Trees and Line of a Fence Post; House and Barn
two lithographs
each signed and numbered 15/60; each unframed (matted)
11.75 x 14.5 ins ( 29.8 x 36.8 cms ) ( each )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Eighteen Canadian Art Reference Books
eighteen books
- “People and Places of New Brunswick: Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak” (Gallery 78, Fredericton);
- “F. H. Varley: Paintings 1915-1954” (The Art Gallery of Toronto, traveling exhibition, 1954-55);
- “Jack Weldon Humphrey” (Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, 1999);
- “Kathleen Daly, George D. Pepper” (McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 1999);
- “Charles Lawrence Katz: Paintings and Works on Paper” (Duncannon Press, 2009);
- “Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero” (Joan Murray, Dundurn Press, Toronto and Oxford, 1998);
- “Northern Belle: The Life Story of Haliburton’s Ethel Curry” (Robert Popple, RTP Publications, 2003);
- “E. Grace Coombs Artist” (Lorne Pierce, Ryerson Press, 1949) - signed by the artist on the titlepage;
- “Souvenir Viewpoints: Watercolours by Franklin Arbuckle” (Megan Bice, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1996);
- “William Berczy: The Wollsey Family” (Jean Trudel, The National Gallery of Canada, 1976);
- “Quiet Harmony: The Art of Mary Hiester Reid” (Brian Foss and Janice Anderson,Art Gallery of Ontario, 2000;
- “A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston” (Roger Burford Mason, Dundurn Press, 1998);
- “William Berczy: Man of Enlightenment” (Katerina Atanassova, Varley Art Gallery, 2004); sold together with a cd-rom;
- “Printmaking in Canada: The Earliest Views and Portraits” (Mary Allodi, Royal Ontario Museum, 1980);
- “W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana: Paintings, Watercolours and Paintings” (W. Martha E. Cooke, Public Archives Canada, 1983);
- “Two Artists Time Forgot: Frances Jones (Bannerman) and Margaret Campbell MacPherson” (Mora Dianne O’Neill and Caroline Stone, The Rooms, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2006);
- “Paul Kane 1810-1871” (J. Russell Harper, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and The National Gallery of Canada, 1971);
- “When Winter was King: The Image of Winter in 19th Century Canada” (Edward Cavell and Dennis Reid, Altitude Publishing in Association with The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, 1988)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Thirteen Canadian Art Reference Books
thirteen books
- “L’Âge de Pierre la Lithographie Canadienne depuis ses débuts” (Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, 2000);
- “To the Totem Forests, Emily Carr Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages” (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1999);
- “Canadian Treasures 25 Artists Paintings Years” (Kitchener- Waterloo Art Gallery, 1981);
- “Forgotten Graces: Travel Sketchbooks of a Victorian Gentlewoman” (Carolyn Gossage, 2006);
- “Tom Roberts Perspectives on a Canadian Artist” (Celia Roberts, 2000);
- “Augustus Kenderdine” (Maeve Spain, 1986);
- “William G.R. Hind 1833-1889” (J. Russell Harper, 1976);
- “Murals from a Great Canadian Train” (Ian Thom, 1986);
- “Sculpteurs en art Populaire au Quebec” ( Adrien Levasseur, 2008);
- “The Artists’ Mecca Canadian Art and Mexico” (Christine Boyanoski, 1992);
- “Don Li-Leger Paintings” (Matt Petley-Jones, 2005);
- “A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston” (Roger Burford Mason, 1998);
- “Charles Comfort” (Margaret Gray, Margaret Rand, Lois Steen, 1976);
- “Exhibition of Prints in Honour of C. Krieghoff” (Isabel Barclay Dobell, 1972)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Fourteen Canadian Art colour lithographs
14 colour lithographs
issued by the National Gallery of Canada, each unframed
- “Spring Ice” (Tom Thomson);
- “Algoma Lake” (A. Y. Jackson, 2 copies);
- “September Gale” (Arthur Lismer);
- “Winter Landscape” (Cornelius Krieghoff);
- “Oxen Drinking” (Horatio Walker);
- “A Canadian Gunner” (Lilias Torrance Newton);
- “Northern River” (Tom Thomson, 2 copies);
- “The Solemn Land” (J.E.H. MacDonald);
- “The Beach, St. Kitt’s” (Franklin Brownell);
- “The Ferry, Quebec” (James W. Morrice);
- “Village in the Laurentian Mountains” (Clarence Gagnon);
- “The Flood Gate” (Homer Watson)
15 x 12.75 ins ( 38.1 x 32.4 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
GEORGE HENRY GRIFFIN
Bringing the Cows Home
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed lower right
8 x 6 ins ( 20.3 x 15.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL
The Dead Spruce; Bolton, Ontario; Evening; La Cloche No. 1; July Afternoon; Summer Day, Orillia
6 colour lithographs
each unframed
15 x 17.25 ins ( 38.1 x 43.8 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
PAUL-VANIER BEAULIEU
Boat Studies
graphite and ink
signed and dated “6-3-58” in the lower margin
12.5 x 10 ins ( 31.8 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $177.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
GRAHAM NOBLE NORWELL
Winter Landscape with Cabin
watercolour
signed lower right
7.75 x 12.25 ins ( 19.7 x 31.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
G. BLAIR LAING
Memoirs of an Art Dealer (Volumes 1& 2)
books
-“Memoirs of an Art Dealer” Vol. 1 & 2 (G. Blair Laing, McLelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1979 - signed by the author on the title page of Vol. 2); Volume 1 without the original dustjacket; Volume 2 within the original dustjacket
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
EUGENIA BERLIN
Landscape with Trees
mixed media on paper
signed lower left
11 x 8 ins ( 27.9 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $125.00 - $175.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Select Canadian Prints
- Sale Closed: April 18, 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
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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
- 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
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 23, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 2, 2020
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 14, 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 (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 25, 2015
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2015
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 28, 2014
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