Little Pictures (Online Auction) Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Little Pictures (Online Auction) which concluded on October 19, 2021. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
ROBERT FRANCIS MICHAEL MCINNIS
The Blue Chair
oil on board
signed lower middle right; signed, titled and dated “May 1977” on the reverse; titled and dated to a gallery label on the reverse
15.75 x 12.25 ins ( 40 x 31.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Turner Court (Hart House), Toronto
etching
signed and titled lower margin
5 x 4.5 ins ( 12.7 x 11.4 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
DORIS JEAN MCCARTHY
Elgin, Sept 1927
oil on card
signed, titled and dated “Sept 1927” on the reverse; Condition noted: craquelure, sold “as is” and not subject to return
8.25 x 10.25 ins ( 21 x 26 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $510.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
DONALD APPELBE SMITH
Sunlit Falls - Rousseau, Ont.; Sunset Near Yellow Point
two acrylics on board
“Sunset Falls - Rousseau, Ont.” - signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1986 on the reverse, 10 x 12.5 ins;
“Sunset Near Yellow Point, Vancouver Island” - signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1985 on the reverse, 12.25 x 14.25 ins
12.25 x 14.25 ins ( 31.1 x 36.2 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $480.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
MANLY EDWARD MACDONALD
Team of Horses; Standing Nude
two crayon drawings
“Team of Horses” (9.25 x 12.5 inches (sheet)); “Standing Nude” (14.75 x 10.75 inches (sheet)); both unframed
14.75 x 10.75 ins ( 37.5 x 27.3 cms ) ( largest sheet )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $480.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
JAMES LILLIE GRAHAM
Woodland Road Near Cap à l’Aigle
oil on board
signed and dated 1934 lower left; titled on the reverse
7.75 x 10 ins ( 19.7 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
FREDERICK BOURCHIER TAYLOR
The Bull Ring, Mijas (Malaga, Spain)
oil on masonite
signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed “VIII 63” (August 1963) on a label on the reverse
5.5 x 8 ins ( 14 x 20.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
ERIN LOREE
Melting Down
oil on panel
signed, titled, dated 2013 on the reverse; unframed
10 x 8 ins ( 25.4 x 20.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Floral Arrangement
colour silkscreen
unframed (matted)
10.75 x 9 ins ( 27.3 x 22.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $426.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
RUTH MARY ELIOT
Ontario Landscape
oil on board
unsigned; unframed
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Towers of the University, Toronto
colour aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
5.25 x 4.5 ins ( 13.3 x 11.4 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $366.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
ANDRÉAS CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED LAPINE
The Pines II, “Capt” Millars Cottage, Big Bay Point
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
16.25 x 12 ins ( 41.3 x 30.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $360.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
ERNEST CAVEN ATKINS
The Sandbanks
graphite drawing
signed and dated 1944 lower left
8.5 x 11.25 ins ( 21.6 x 28.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $360.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Hyacinths; Daffodils
pair of silkscreens
each unframed (matted)
7 x 6 ins ( 17.8 x 15.2 cms ) ( each sight )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $360.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- 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
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art (Catalogue Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 29, 2014
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