Select Masterworks of Canadian and International Art Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold in our Select Masterworks of Canadian and International Art which concluded on May 29, 2025. Select an item for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL
Old Orchard, 1940
oil on board
signed and dated 1940 lower right; signed with insignia, dated 1940 and inscribed “16” and "Cat No. 9" on the reverse
30 x 36 in ( 76.2 x 91.4 cm )
Auction Estimate: $400,000.00 - $500,000.00
Price Realized $768,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
MARCELLE FERRON
Sans titre, 1964
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1964 lower left; dated 1964 to a gallery label on the reverse
45 x 57.25 in ( 114.3 x 145.4 cm )
Auction Estimate: $300,000.00 - $400,000.00
Price Realized $696,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
EMILY CARR
Fir Trees, circa 1935
oil on paper laid on board
stamped (twice) in the lower left corner; titled to two gallery labels, inscribed "46", "828C" and "V40" on the reverse
36 x 24 in ( 91.4 x 61 cm )
Auction Estimate: $275,000.00 - $375,000.00
Price Realized $576,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Northern Lake, 1922
oil on wood
signed lower left, signed, titled and inscribed “not for sale” with cross in circle on the reverse
10.5 x 13.75 in ( 26.7 x 34.9 cm )
Auction Estimate: $300,000.00 - $500,000.00
Price Realized $264,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
FRANCES ANNE HOPKINS
Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior, 1864
watercolour on paper on pressed paper board
signed with initials lower right; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
14.5 x 21.5 in ( 36.8 x 54.6 cm ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $240,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF
Bilking the Toll Gate, 1869
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1869 lower right
14.25 x 22.25 in ( 36.2 x 56.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00
Price Realized $192,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
ARTHUR LISMER
Light Breaking Through, Lake Superior, 1927
oil on board
signed and dated 1927 lower right; signed, titled and dated 1927 on a label on the reverse; titled and/or dated 1927 to gallery and exhibition labels on the reverse; inscribed "To André Biéler from A.L., June 1965" to a label on the reverse
12.75 x 16 in ( 32.4 x 40.6 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $180,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
PETER CLAPHAM SHEPPARD
The Bridge Builders, Construction, Bloor Street Viaduct, 1915
oil on canvas
signed lower right; estate stamp on reverse of framing and on crossbar
58 x 40 in ( 147.3 x 101.6 cm )
Auction Estimate: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00
Price Realized $180,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Vic Day, 1974
acrylic on canvas
signed, titled, dated “May 1974 Toronto” and inscribed “acrylic polymer W.B.” on the reverse; catalogue raisonné no. 3.7.1974.28
67.5 x 37 in ( 171.5 x 94 cm )
Auction Estimate: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00
Price Realized $156,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL
Port Coldwell, Lake Superior, 1928
oil on beaverboard
signed lower right; titled and dated 1928 in the artist's hand in graphite on the reverse
10 x 12 in ( 25.4 x 30.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $132,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD
Mt. Hungabee, from Odaray Bench, 1929
oil on board
signed and dated 1929 lower right; signed, titled and dated "Sept. 1929?" on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 in ( 21.6 x 26.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $132,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
YVES GAUCHER
Ocres, jaune et vert, 1974
oil on canvas
signed, titled "Ochres [sic], jaune et vert" and dated "January 1974" on the reverse; unframed
80 x 100 in ( 203.2 x 254 cm )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $50,000.00
Price Realized $120,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
ANDY WARHOL
Turtle (F&S II.360A), 1985
colour screenprint on lenox museum board
signed and numbered 248/250 lower right; titled and numbered on a label on the reverse. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York; published by CBS, Inc., Los Angeles, California
31.25 x 39 in ( 79.4 x 99.1 cm ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $114,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
NORVAL MORRISSEAU
Conversation with Our White Brother, 1980
acrylic on canvas
signed in syllabics lower right; titled twice and dated 1980 on the reverse
77 x 60 in ( 195.6 x 152.4 cm )
Auction Estimate: $50,000.00 - $60,000.00
Price Realized $108,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
DAVID BROWN MILNE
Green and Brown, Boston Corners, 1917
watercolour
signed and dated "June 9, 1917" at right edge; inscribed "Green & Brown" (by Patsy Milne) on the reverse; inscribed "EW #17 David Milne: Boston Corners: Purple and Green" (by Douglas Duncan) on the old mat attached to the reverse; catalogue raisonné no. 107.88
15.25 x 22.25 in ( 38.7 x 56.5 cm ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $102,000.00
Sale date: May 28th 2025
Previous Auctions
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- Select Masterworks of Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2025
- British & Continental Artworks (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 13, 2025
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 13, 2025
- The Chaki Collection: A Collector’s Dialogue (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 13, 2025
- Past and Present: International Art from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- The Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- In the Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Artwork from the Estate of Jaan Poldaas (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Abstract vs. Figural: Prints from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- A Modern Eye: Canadian Art from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Drawn to Places: Landscapes on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Holiday Sale (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Photography from the Collection of Salah Bachir (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: November 27, 2024
- 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
- 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
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