Historical Canadian Art Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Historical Canadian Art which concluded on July 25, 2023. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Ste Marthe, Gaspé
pencil on paper
signed lower right; titled and dated “April 1953” lower left; with a pencil sketch of a shoreline landscape on the reverse
8.75 x 11 ins ( 22.2 x 27.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $8,400.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE
Spring (Laurentians)
oil on board
signed, initialed and titled on the reverse; titled and dated c. 1939 to a gallery label on the reverse
12 x 14 ins ( 30.5 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $6,600.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
HOMER RANSFORD WATSON
Landscape with Sheep
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1882 lower left
18.5 x 26.5 ins ( 47 x 67.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $6,000.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
JOHN A. HAMMOND
Old Barn, Sackville, N.B.
oil on panel
signed lower right; signed and titled on paper attached to the reverse, titled on a gallery label on the reverse
23 x 29 ins ( 58.4 x 73.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $5,040.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
REGINA SEIDEN
Rue St. Honoré, Paris
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on a label on the reverse; inscribed “acheté en 1924” on the reverse
13 x 9 ins ( 33 x 22.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $5,040.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN
Johnnie Courteau (The Fighter)
oil on canvas laid down on board
signed and dated 1900 lower middle left; titled to two labels on the reverse
26 x 18 ins ( 66 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $4,200.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
GEORGE AGNEW REID
Old Woman by the Fireplace
oil on canvas
titled and dated c. 1890 to a gallery label on the reverse; titled to a second gallery label on the reverse
16 x 13.5 ins ( 40.6 x 34.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $4,200.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
HOMER RANSFORD WATSON
Evening Near Doon
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1886 lower right; titled and dated to a label on the reverse
18.25 x 15 ins ( 46.4 x 38.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $3,840.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
A Child in a Garden
watercolour
signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
19.75 x 12.75 ins ( 50.2 x 32.4 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $3,360.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN
Nocturne with Woman on the Shore
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1904 lower right
13 x 18 ins ( 33 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $3,000.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
LUCIUS RICHARD O'BRIEN
Untitled (Boats on the River Bank)
watercolour
signed and dated 1893 lower right
15.5 x 23.25 ins ( 39.4 x 59.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
JOHN A. HAMMOND
Landscape with Cattle, N.B.
oil on canvas board
signed and dated 1928 lower right; titled on a gallery label and artist estate stamp on the reverse
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,920.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
GEORGE PAGINTON
Gloucester
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; titled and dated 1935 on the reverse
14.5 x 18 ins ( 36.8 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,920.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER
The Road to Mandalay
watercolour on paper mounted to card
signed and dated 1879 lower right
5.75 x 11.75 ins ( 14.6 x 29.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $1,560.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
Mountain Landscape
oil on divided board
signed lower right
8 x 3.25 ins ( 20.3 x 8.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,560.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
Previous Auctions
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- 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
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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
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