Sale of a Prominent Collection to Benefit the Art Gallery of Alberta Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Sale of a Prominent Collection to Benefit the Art Gallery of Alberta which concluded on November 30, 2021. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
FRANK HANS JOHNSTON
A Cook at the Miners’ Camp, Whitehorse
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; titled on a label on the reverse
20 x 30 ins ( 50.8 x 76.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $9,600.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
FRANK WILLIAM BRANGWYN
Unloading at a Dalmatian Port
oil on board
signed with monogram lower right; titled on the reverse
12 x 17.5 ins ( 30.5 x 44.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $5,520.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
JOHN WENTWORTH RUSSELL
The Plage at Le Touquet
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on a label on the reverse
12.75 x 16 ins ( 32.4 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $5,520.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
MARY ELLA DIGNAM
Sand Dunes
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the backing paper on the reverse
10.5 x 13.75 ins ( 26.7 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $3,840.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
PIERRE DE BELAY (ATTRIBUTED TO)
Charcoal Burners
oil on canvas
inscribed “de Belay - 1929” on the stretcher
17.5 x 21 ins ( 44.5 x 53.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,880.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
JOHANNES HENDRICUS JURRES
Roman Battle Scene
oil on canvas
signed lower left
14 x 28 ins ( 35.6 x 71.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,880.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
FRANK CHARLES HENNESSEY
At Mont St. Pierre, Gaspé
oil pastel
signed and dated 1936 lower left; signed and titled on the artist labels on the reverse
15.5 x 19.5 ins ( 39.4 x 49.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
JEAN-LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER
Soldier on his Horse
oil on panel
signed with monogram lower left
8.5 x 5.75 ins ( 21.6 x 14.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $2,400.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
JOHN CONSTABLE (AFTER)
Greenstead Mill
watercolour
5.75 x 8 ins ( 14.6 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $2,280.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
LAWRENCE ARTHUR COLLEY PANTON
Mountain Waterfalls
oil on canvas laid down on board
titled on the reverse
8.75 x 11 ins ( 22.2 x 27.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $2,160.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
HENRI DÉSIRÉ GAUQUIÉ
Vae victis / The Gladiator
bronze sculpture
incised signature and inscribed “Vae victis” and “Médaille d’Honneur” on the base
39 x 19 x 17 ins ( 99.1 x 48.3 x 43.2 cms ) ( overall )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
PELEG FRANKLIN BROWNELL
Sunlit Autumn Landscape
oil on canvas laid down on board
signed with initials lower right
8 x 9 ins ( 20.3 x 22.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,560.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
UNKNOWN ARTIST (DUTCH OR FLEMISH, 17TH/18TH C)
Landscape with Harbour View
oil on board
signed with initials (M.B.) lower right
10 x 15.5 ins ( 25.4 x 39.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER (FOLLOWER OF)
Untitled (View of the Thames)
watercolour
bears a monogram lower left
8.5 x 12 ins ( 21.6 x 30.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $1,140.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
LIONEL BICKNELL CONSTABLE (ATTRIBUTED TO)
A Cornfield - Storm Approaching
oil on panel
titled indistinctly on the reverse
8.25 x 11 ins ( 21 x 27.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $900.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- 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
( 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
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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
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