Works on Paper, Books & Tapestries Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Works on Paper, Books & Tapestries which concluded on December 14, 2021. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
NORMAN LALIBERTÉ
Untitled (Train)
mixed media tapestry
signed with appliqués lower right
Please note: a composite image is pictured for this lot
52 x 298 ins ( 132.1 x 756.9 cms ) ( overall )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $540.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
JACK CHAMBERS
Jack Chambers; Daffodils
book with serigraph
- “Jack Chambers” - signed and numbered “138” on the inside title page (Nancy Poole - numbered 138/300);
- “Daffodils” (colour serigraph, signed, dated 1977 and numbered 138/300 in the lower margin, 11.75 x 11.5 ins. [sheet]) unframed, housed in folder; all in the original slipcase
11.75 x 11.5 ins ( 29.8 x 29.2 cms ) ( print sheet size )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $540.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
MANLY EDWARD MACDONALD
Female Nude Portrait
coloured chalk
sold together with “Horses in Stream” - colour photolithographic reproduction (“Reproduced from the Private Collection of the Royal Bank of Canada”; sheet size 20.5 ins x 26 ins, rolled and within a mailing tube addressed to the artist - sold “as is” and not subject to return)
14.5 x 9 ins ( 36.8 x 22.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $250.00 - $350.00
Price Realized $516.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
SAMUEL HERBERT MAW
A Village in Winter; The Lagoon, Venice
two colour etchings
-“A Village in Winter” - etching; signed and titled indistinctly in the lower margin; plate size 3.25 ins x 3.25 ins
-”The Lagoon, Venice” - colour etching; signed, titled and inscribed “No. 23” in the lower margin; plate size 4 ins x 6 ins
4 x 6 ins ( 10.2 x 15.2 cms ) ( largest plate )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
HAROLD BARLING TOWN
Stretch Blue on Grey
colour serigraph
signed and dated 1971 lower left; numbered 85/99 lower right; unframed
40 x 28.5 ins ( 101.6 x 72.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
JEANNE LEBLANC RHEAUME
Les Collines de Norine
mixed media on paper laid down on card
signed and dated 1958 lower right; titled on the reverse
27 x 36 ins ( 68.6 x 91.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
BARRY MCCARTHY
Ship Masts
watercolour
signed and dated 1986 lower right
22.5 x 57 ins ( 57.2 x 144.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
ITZCHAK TARKAY
Cafe Scene
colour serigraph
signed lower right and numbered 244/350 lower left in the margin
20.5 x 27 ins ( 52.1 x 68.6 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Seventeen Canadian Art Reference Books
seventeen books
Full listing in cataloguing details
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
JEAN ALBERT MCEWEN
Le printemps
colour lithograph
signed, dated 1973 and numbered 75/75 in the lower margin; titled, dated and numbered to the gallery label on the reverse
30 x 22.25 ins ( 76.2 x 56.5 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
ERNEST CAVEN ATKINS
Still Life
watercolour
signed and dated 1953 lower right
13 x 19.5 ins ( 33 x 49.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
FREDERICK HAGAN
Religious Figure with Congregation; Model in Studio
two lithographs
- “Religious Figure with Congregation”- signed and numbered 9/44 in the lower margin (13 ins x 17 ins [sight]);
- “Model in Studio”- signed and numbered 9/44 in the lower margin (22 ins x 19 ins [sheet])
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
JOSEPH ERNEST SAMPSON
Veterans of the Sea
sampson matthews silkscreen
23.25 x 34.5 ins ( 59.1 x 87.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $390.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- 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
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 27, 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
- Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 14, 2020
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 23, 2020
- Canadian & International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 2, 2020
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 12, 2020
- Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 14, 2020
- Works on Paper, Prints & Books (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 18, 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
- Sale Closed: November 25, 2015
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2015
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 28, 2014
- Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: May 29, 2014
- Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 29, 2013
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