Post-War & Contemporary Canadian Art Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Post-War & Contemporary Canadian Art which concluded on May 30, 2023. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
WANDA KOOP
Untitled (Sealer), from the Interweave Series
acrylic on canvas
titled and dated 2008 on a gallery label on the stretcher on the reverse
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $10,200.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
TONY SCHERMAN
Trudeau (From the Black October Series)
oil and encaustic on canvas
signed, titled and dated 2011 on the reverse; unframed
84 x 84 ins ( 213.4 x 213.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $9,600.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
MICHAEL JAMES ALECK SNOW
Ducks Drawn Back, 1981
28 silkscreened images of waterfowl of North America, on transparent plexiglass panels suspended in a skylight; sold together with one framed commemorative poster (signed and dated 1981 upper right corner; 13 x 23 ins. sight)
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Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00
Price Realized $9,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
DAVID T. ALEXANDER
Colour, Colour and More Yellow
acrylic on canvas
signed and titled 2004 lower right; titled and dated in pencil on the reverse; titled and dated to a gallery label on the reverse
21.75 x 75 ins ( 55.2 x 190.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $8,520.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
JACK LEONARD SHADBOLT
Owls in a Northern Landscape
oil on paper, laid on board
signed and dated 1976 lower right
26 x 40 ins ( 66 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $7,200.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
KIM DORLAND
Untitled (Silver Lori)
oil on board
signed and dated 2008 on the reverse; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
12.5 x 9.25 x 2.5 ins ( 31.8 x 23.5 x 6.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $7,200.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
ARMAND VAILLANCOURT
Sculpture #7
metal and wood
15.5 x 11 x 9.5 ins ( 39.4 x 27.9 x 24.1 cms ) ( overall (including base) )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $6,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
DAVID BIERK
Eulogy for a Planet, After History
oil on canvas
initialed lower right; signed, artist’s stamp and dated “28 Nov. 2000” on the reverse; titled to a gallery label on the reverse; titled and dated 2000 to one other label on the reverse
68 x 55 ins ( 172.7 x 139.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $6,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
CLIVE D’OLIVEIRA
Colour Bars #6
acrylic on canvas
signed, titled and dated 2000; titled and dated on a gallery label on the reverse; unframed
56 x 77 ins ( 142.2 x 195.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00
Price Realized $6,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
GREGORY RICHARD CURNOE
Self-Portrait
watercolour
signed lower left and inscribed “Sept 6 & 7 1986 / Nov 11 1987 / Apr 20 1988 / June 27 1988” on the upper right edge
7 x 5 ins ( 17.8 x 12.7 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $5,400.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
RON MOPPETT
Night Studio: Match
oil on panel
signed and dated 1983 on the reverse; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
30 x 24 ins ( 76.2 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $4,800.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Jeté en l’air
serigraph in colours
signed, titled, dated 1976 and numbered 11/100 in the lower margin
29.5 x 40 ins ( 74.9 x 101.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $4,800.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
DORIS JEAN MCCARTHY
Adélie Penguins in the Antarctic
watercolour
signed lower right; titled and dated “910214” (February 14, 1991) on the reverse, titled “Penguins in the Antarctic” and dated 1991 on a gallery label on the backing on the reverse
13.5 x 21.75 ins ( 34.3 x 55.2 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $4,800.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- 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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- Artwork from an Important Private Collection (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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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
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