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ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
The Sharp-Tailed Grouse
colour silkscreen
unframed (matted)
11 x 12.5 ins ( 27.9 x 31.8 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Partridges
colour silkscreen
unframed (matted)
12.5 x 14 ins ( 31.8 x 35.6 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
TERENCE MICHAEL SHORTT
Shoveler Ducks
colour silkscreen
title printed on reverse of matting; unframed (matted)
12 x 13.25 ins ( 30.5 x 33.7 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
TERENCE MICHAEL SHORTT
Ring-Neck Ducks
colour silkscreen
title printed on reverse of matting; unframed (matted)
12 x 13.25 ins ( 30.5 x 33.7 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
TERENCE MICHAEL SHORTT
Bufflehead Ducks
colour silkscreen
title printed on reverse of matting; unframed (matted)
11.75 x 13.25 ins ( 29.8 x 33.7 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
TERENCE MICHAEL SHORTT
Pin Tail Ducks
colour silkscreen
signed and titled by A.J. Casson on reverse of the matting; unframed (matted)
12 x 13.25 ins ( 30.5 x 33.7 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Old St. Paul’s, Toronto
colour aquatint on christmas card
signed and titled in the lower margin
6.5 x 8 ins ( 16.5 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
This sale is now closed.
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Snow in Venice
colour etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
4.75 x 6.5 ins ( 12.1 x 16.5 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $225.00
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Old St. Stephen’s on Bellevue (Toronto)
colour etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
8.25 x 6.25 ins ( 21 x 15.9 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $225.00
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Old Briggs
colour etching and aquatint
signed and titled in the lower margin
4.75 x 3.75 ins ( 12.1 x 9.5 cms ) ( sight )
This sale is now closed.
NICHOLAS HORNYANSKY
Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square, Toronto
colour aquatint on christmas card
signed and titled in the lower margin
6.5 x 8 ins ( 16.5 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $225.00
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Floral Arrangement
colour silkscreen christmas card
signed lower right
6.75 x 8 ins ( 17.1 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $90.00
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Crocuses; Hyacinths
pair of colour silkscreens
7 x 6 ins ( 17.8 x 15.2 cms ) ( sight (each) )
Price Realized: $960.00
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Nasturtiums
colour silkscreen
titled on a label on the reverse
7.75 x 9.75 ins ( 19.7 x 24.8 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $480.00
PAUL GAUTHIER
Three Skiing Scenes
three colour serigraphs
- “Country Trailing”- signed in the lower margin, titled to a label on the reverse;
- “Downhill Racer”- signed in the lower margin, titled to a label on the reverse;
- “Powder Run”- signed and titled in the lower margin;
9.75 x 12.5 ins ( 24.8 x 31.8 cms ) ( each sight )
Price Realized: $1,800.00
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Seignorial Mill
colour photolithograph
signed, titled and numbered 6/25 in the lower margin; unframed
12 x 9 ins ( 30.5 x 22.9 cms ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
PAUL GAUTHIER
Morning Mist; Algonquin Lake
two colour silkscreens
- “Morning Mist”- signed and numbered 197/250 in the lower margin;
- “Algonquin Lake”- signed and numbered 196/250 in the lower margin
16.75 x 20.5 ins ( 42.5 x 52.1 cms ) ( each sight )
Price Realized: $390.00
EMILY CARR
1973 Calendar with Print Proofs
calendar with twenty-one colour print proofs
Various items include calendar, calendar proofs, prints and promotional brochures for upcoming publication entitled, “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”; all unframed
11 x 9.75 ins ( 27.9 x 24.8 cms ) ( largest sheet )
This sale is now closed.
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON
Pirate Ship on Canoe Lake
colour silkscreen
sold with Greeting Cards & Ephemera for Taylor Statten Camps, Canoe Lake
-Folder with Photo of “Chief” Taylor Statten (1882-1956);
-Greeting Card from Jane and Page Statten, features print of black bear by A.J. Casson entitled, “Lord of Sim’s Pit”;
-General Greeting Card from Taylor Statten Camps, features a print of Canoe Lake by Jack Eastaugh, a staff member of the Camps;
-General Greeting Card from Camp Ahmek & Camp Wapomeo, features a drawing on the outside of a Canada Goose by Thoreau MacDonald and a tipped in photograph on the inside by wildlife photographer, Dan Gibson;
-Reprinted 1950 Newspaper Article from the Toronto Telegram and three unused shipping labels from 1957;
-Large Greeting Card from Jane and Page Statten features a reproduction of an etching of Canoe Lake by Woodruff K. Akroyd;
all unframed
6 x 7.25 ins ( 15.2 x 18.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Price Realized: $720.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Great Moments in Canadian Sports
seventeen colour prints
prints from the collection of Prudential Financial Insurance;
1. The Bluenose (America Cup) – Artist, Franklin Arbuckle;
2. Sandy Hawley (horse racing) – Artist, Peter Swan;
3. Northern Dancer (horse racing) – Artist, Gabriel Csakany;
4. Barbara Ann Scott (figure skating – Artist, Don Anderson;
5. Karen Magnussen (figure skating) – Artist, Geoffrey Traunter;
6. Marilyn Bell (swimming) – Artist, Will Davies;
7. Nancy Greene (skiing) – Artist, Bob Berger;
8. Anne Heggtveit (skiing) – Artist, William Winter;
9. Lester Patrick (hockey) – Artist, Gerry Sevier;
10. Percy Williams (olympic runner) – Artist, Tom Hodgson;
11. Calgary Stampede (50th birthday) – Artist, Wes Chapman;
12. Jimmy McLarnin (boxing) – Artist, Walter Yarwood;
13. Jackie Parker (football) – Artist, Will Davies;
14. Jackie Parker (football) – Artist, Will Davies (2nd copy);
15. Lionel Conacher (football) – Artist, Tom McNeely;
16. Ferguson Jenkins (baseball) – Artist, André Archevêque;
17. Ernie, Sam, Arnold & Wes Richardson (curling) – Artist, Tom McNeely;
each unframed
16.5 x 12.75 ins ( 41.9 x 32.4 cms ) ( each sheet )
This sale is now closed.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Canterbury Cathedral; Ice Floes
two prints
-”Canterbury Cathedral”- mechanical print (titled in the margin; 6.5 ins x 4.5 ins (sight));
-”Ice Floes”- print of Doris McCarthy painting (9 ins x 14.75 ins); unframed
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Price Realized: $60.00
JOSEPH ERNEST SAMPSON
Veterans of the Sea (original colour palette)
sampson matthews silkscreen
printed title in the lower margin
sold with a B/W print of original colour palette sent to - and received by - the London Daily Telegraph (5.5 ins x 7.5 ins); unframed
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Price Realized: $600.00
JOSEPH ERNEST SAMPSON
Maligne Lake
colour silkscreen
unframed (matted)
11.5 x 13.25 ins ( 29.2 x 33.7 cms ) ( sheet )
Price Realized: $420.00
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