Books & Reference (Online Auction) Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Books & Reference (Online Auction) which concluded on August 17, 2021. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Canadian Art Magazines
105 magazines
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $1,920.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Fifteen International Photography Reference Books
fifteen books
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $480.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Collection of Marius Barbeau Books
four books
- “Totem Poles, Volume 1” (Marius Barbeau, Department of Resources and Development, National Museum of Canada, 1950);
- “Totem Poles, Volume 2” (Mairus Barbeau, Department of Resources and Development,National Museum of Canada, 1950);
- “Indian Days on the Western Prairies” (Marius Barbeau, National Museum of Canada, 1970);
- “Medicine Men on the North Pacific Coast” (Marius Barbeau, National Museum of Canada, 1958)
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Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Collection of Books on Edvard Munch
seven books
Full listing in catalogue details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Barker Fairley
book with two lithographs
Paul Duval, “Barker Fairley”, Marianne Friedland Gallery Limited, 1980; includes 2 untitled lithographs (each signed and numbered 170/300, each 11.5 ins x 11 ins (sheet size)); enclosed in front pages; in original case; each unframed
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Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Maritime Art: The Journal of the Maritime Art Association: A Canadian Magazine
twelve journals
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Eight Canadian Art Reference Books (Including Bush, Gagnon, Town, Cahen, among others)
eight books
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Canadian Art Books and Exhibition Catalogues
eight books and catalogues
- “Canadian War Memorials Paintings Exhibition - 1920” (Canadian War Records Office, Ottawa, 1920);
- “Catalogue of the Canadian Art Club Second Annual Exhibition” (Canadian Art Club, County of York, 1909);
- “Exposition d’Art Canadien” (Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1927);
- “Third Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting 1959” (The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1969);
- “Seventh Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting 1968” (The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1968);
-”From Women’s Eyes: Women Painters in Canada” (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 1975);
- “A Collector’s Choice of Canadian Art” (Bram Garber, Montreal, n.d.);
- “Peinture canadienne des années trente” (Charles C. Hill, National Gallery of Canada, 1975);
- “L’art du connaisseur” (Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, 1978)
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $360.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Fifteen Canadian Art Reference Books (Including Nakamura, Tousignant, Gaucher, Molinari, Juneau, Martin, among others)
fifteen books
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $300.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Five Canadian Artist Books (Including Milne, Morrisseau, Curnoe, Lemieux, Bobak)
five books
- “David Milne” (Ed. Ian Thom, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, 1991);
- “Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist” (Greg Hill, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2006);
- “Greg Curnoe” (Pierre Théberge, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1982);
- “Lemieux” (Guy Robert, translated by John David Allan, gage Publishing, Toronto, 1975);
- “Wildflowers of Canada: Impressions and Sketches of a Field Artist” (Molly Lamb Bobak, Pagurian Press Limited, Toronto, 1978) signed by the artist and numbered 30/250 on the title page and housed in the original slipcover;
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $288.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Five Books on the Group of Seven and Canadian Art
five books
- “A Border of Beauty: Arthur Lismer’s Pen and Pencil” (Marjorie Lismer Bridges, Red Rock Publishing, Toronto, 1977);
- “Group of Seven Drawings” (Paul Duval, Burns and MacEachern Limited, Toronto, 1965);
- “Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century” (Joan Murrau, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1999);
- “The Group of Seven” (Peter Mellen, McLelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1970); housed in original slipcase;
- “The Tangled Garden: The Art of J.E.H. MacDonald” (Paul Duval, Cerebrus Prentice- Hall, Scarborough, 1978);
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $276.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
ANDRÉ CHARLES BIÉLER
An Artist’s Life and Times
book with serigraph
- “Andre Bieler: An Artist’s Life and Times” (Frances K. Smith, Merritt Publishing Company, Ltd, Toronto/Vancouver, 1980);
- “Mon Voisin” (serigraph, signed, titled and numbered 162/225 in the lower margin, 13 x 10 ins. [sheet]) -unframed; all housed in the original slipcase
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $270.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Collection of Seven Canadian Artist Reference Books
seven publications
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $264.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Twelve Canadian Art Reference Books
twelve books
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $264.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Canadian Art Exhibition Catalogues and Books
twenty-three catalogues and books
Full catalogue listing in details
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Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $240.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
Previous Auctions
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- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auctions)
- 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
- 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
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