Historical Canadian Art Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Historical Canadian Art which concluded on May 31, 2022. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
LUCIUS RICHARD O'BRIEN
Percé Rock, Gaspé, Quebec
watercolour
signed and dated 1882 lower left
13.5 x 20.5 ins ( 34.3 x 52.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $18,000.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
JOHN GOODWIN LYMAN
Window on the Sea (III)
oil on canvas board
signed upper right; titled on the gallery label on the reverse
14 x 18 ins ( 35.6 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $13,200.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE
House in the Hills / Hills & Trees
oil on board
signed lower right; a landscape of hills and trees on the reverse
16 x 18 ins ( 40.6 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $12,000.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE
Lower St. Lawrence, Métis
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
12 x 14 ins ( 30.5 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $10,800.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT
Les Éboulements from L’lsle-aux-Coudres
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, dated 1934 and titled on the reverse
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $9,600.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
ARTHUR LISMER
Rocks and Pine
ink on paper
signed and dated 1931 lower left
10 x 14 ins ( 25.4 x 35.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $9,600.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
PEGI NICOL MACLEOD
Portrait of a Boy
oil on board
signed lower left
10 x 8 ins ( 25.4 x 20.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $7,800.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
MARC-AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ
Incoming Tide, Gaspé, Quebec
oil on panel
signed lower right; titled and dated 1910 on the reverse and to the gallery label
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms ) ( support )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $7,200.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN
Through the Snowdrift
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1930 lower left; titled on a label on the reverse
18 x 22 ins ( 45.7 x 55.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $6,600.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Gerran’s Bay, Pender Harbour, BC
colour woodcut
signed, titled, dated, and numbered 44/100 in the margin
8.5 x 12 ins ( 21.6 x 30.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $6,120.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
NICHOLAS DE GRANDMAISON
Portrait of a Young Man
pastel on paper
signed lower right
12.75 x 9.5 ins ( 32.4 x 24.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $4,800.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
JOHN B. WILKINSON
Ice Cone at Montmorency Falls
watercolour
signed lower left
8 x 11.25 ins ( 20.3 x 28.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $4,320.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
PETER CLAPHAM SHEPPARD
Market Garden Activity, Humber River, Lambton, Ont
oil on board
signed lower left; three small graphite sketches of a still life on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $4,320.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
WILLIAM BRYMNER
Summer Landscape
oil on panel
signed lower left
9.5 x 13.25 ins ( 24.1 x 33.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $3,480.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
FREDERICK HORSMAN VARLEY
Forest (possibly near Ottawa)
pencil drawing
signed lower right
9.5 x 12 ins ( 24.1 x 30.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $3,480.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: November 27, 2024
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- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Works for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Canadian Abstraction (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)_
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Picasso & His Contemporaries (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Mousseau and Friends (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Grand Tour (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Works from the Estate of William Ronald (Part II) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Spring Live Auction (Session 1 & 2)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Group of Seven (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Works from the Estate of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Artwork of David Blackwood (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Modern Forms (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- International Prints, Multiples & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- La belle province (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Artwork for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Watercolours & Drawings (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- 20th Century Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- The Collection of Joe & Anita Robertson (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 12, 2023
- Bidding in a Winter Wonderland (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 12, 2023
- An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: December 6, 2023
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- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: December 6, 2023
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- Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Toronto: Represented and Abstracted (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Auction to Benefit NSCAD (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Artwork from a Private Collection (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
- Little Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
- Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- The Art of Europe (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
( Download PDF )
- 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
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