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.
TIBOR NYILASI
House on Baldwin Street
woodblock print
signed, titled, dated ‘69 (identified as an error by the estate) and numbered 1/10 in the lower margin; signed by the artist’s spouse on a label on the reverse
12.25 x 15.25 ins ( 31.1 x 38.7 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $148.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
JEAN CONSTANTINEAU
Une vue de St-Irene par le Rang St Antoine
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1985 lower right; signed, titled and dated 1985 on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
ROBERT THOMSON
The House of Usher
copperplate etching
signed and numbered 40/100 in the lower margin
12.25 x 9 ins ( 31.1 x 22.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
GYRTH RUSSELL
Untitled (Estaminet)
etching
signed in the lower right margin
7.5 x 9.5 ins ( 19.1 x 24.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
OCTAVIUS WHITE
Canoeing in the Mountains
oil on board
signed lower left
18 x 28.25 ins ( 45.7 x 71.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
ERNEST SAWFORD DYE
Landscape with House
watercolour
signed lower right
5.5 x 7 ins ( 14 x 17.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $118.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
HENRY NAPARTUK
Eskimo and Walrus; Eskimo and Seal
pair of prints
- ”Eskimo and Walrus”-signed and titled in the lower margin
- “Eskimo and Seal” -signed and titled in the lower margin;
each unframed
6.25 x 9.25 ins ( 15.9 x 23.5 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $50.00 - $75.00
Price Realized $94.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
JOHN BEATTY NEWMAN
Model in Blue
oil on board
signed and dated 1990 lower left; unframed
20 x 16 ins ( 50.8 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $86.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
FREDERICK HORSMAN VARLEY
Doon, Ontario; Tree Pattern, Kootenay Lake, B.C.; Mists over Lyon, B.C.; Mountain Portage; Dead Tree, Garibaldi Park; The Lions, B.C.
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 $89.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
WALTER COUCILL
‘Golden Banners’ Markham
signed lower right, titled and dated 1976 in the lower left margin; unframed
6.5 x 10.5 ins ( 16.5 x 26.7 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
VIN RICKARD
Eagle, Charles Edenshaw Haida Argilite Plate 1880
colour lithograph
titled in the lower margin; unframed
33 x 26.5 ins ( 83.8 x 67.3 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $89.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
JIM NICOLL
Rooftop Detail; Figure Study
pair of drawings
“Rooftop Detail”- ink on paper; signed with artist’s stamp lower right (5 ins x 7.75 ins); “Figure Study”- graphite on paper; signed with artist’s stamp lower right (11 ins x 8.5 ins); both works unframed
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $50.00 - $75.00
Price Realized $35.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
GORDON RAYNER
Confessions
mixed media construction
signed, titled and dated 1983 on the reverse;
sold together with “Gordon Rayner Retrospective” (Joan Murray, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 1978) and two copies of “Gordon Rayner: Painted Wooden Cutouts and Polychrome Constructions” (Exhibition pamphlet, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, October 16 - November 10, 2010)
10.25 x 8.5 x 2.25 ins ( 26 x 21.6 x 5.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $375.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
ANTHONY MORSE URQUHART
Wall and Window
mixed media construction
signed, titled and dated 2005 on the reverse
8 x 12 x 2 ins ( 20.3 x 30.5 x 5.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $375.00
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
( Download PDF )
- 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
( Download PDF )
- 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
( Download PDF )
- 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
( Download PDF )
- 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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