Spring Live Auction - Session 2
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The second session of the Spring Live Auction presents artwork from three select important collections. Artwork benefitting the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq begin the session with fourteen works of art (Lots 101-114) being sold to benefit the gallery in establishing an endowment fund to support more diverse representation in the permanent collection, beginning with contemporary Canadian art. The session next features two artworks from the Collection of Art Windsor-Essex (115 & 116) to support AWE's new endowment fund, established to support the care and diversification of the collection at the AWE. Closing the session and season is Works from a Private Collection of Canadian Art (117-137), a selection of artwork which showcase celebrated Canadian artists, including masterwork by Lawren Harris, Clarence Gagnon, Cornelius Krieghoff and many others.
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper Park. Mountain Painting XII
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1924 lower right; numbered 190 upon the “Lawren Harris LSH Holdings Ltd.” stamp and numbered 5015 upon a National Gallery of Canada stamp on the reverse; inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and “Mountain Paintings XII” on a label affixed to the reverse
48 x 59.5 in ( 121.9 x 151.1 cm )
Auction Estimate: $2,000,000.00 - $3,000,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
PAUL KANE
Party of Indians in Two Canoes on Mountain Lake, circa 1855
oil on canvas
catalogue raisonné no. IV-281
18.75 x 29 in ( 47.6 x 73.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $600,000.00 - $800,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
CLARENCE ALPHONSE GAGNON
A Laurentian Homestead, 1923
oil on canvas
signed lower right, Lucile Rodier Gagnon inventory no. 175
29.25 x 37.5 in ( 74.3 x 95.3 cm )
Auction Estimate: $400,000.00 - $600,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF
The Settler’s Log House
oil on canvas
signed, dated 1859 and inscribed “Quebec” lower right
24 x 36 in ( 61 x 91.4 cm )
Auction Estimate: $300,000.00 - $400,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Coronet Mountain, Brazeau Glacier, 1924
oil on panel
signed twice, titled, inscribed “Not for Sale” (twice), “Bess Harris Collection”, “9” (circled), “78”, “one of 5 sketches made in one day in July 1925 or 6” with a cross in a circle in black ink on the reverse
10.75 x 13.75 in ( 27.3 x 34.9 cm )
Auction Estimate: $300,000.00 - $400,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
DAVID BROWN MILNE
The Black Chimney
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1932 upper left; catalogue raisonné no. 302.139
26.25 x 32.5 in ( 66.7 x 82.6 cm )
Auction Estimate: $200,000.00 - $300,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
DAVID BROWN MILNE
Bare Trees in Snow (New York)
oil on canvas
inscribed “David Milne: Bare Trees in Snow, New York 1914-15” and “Winnipeg Art Gallery” on the stretcher; catalogue raisonné no. 106.7
18.25 x 20.25 in ( 46.4 x 51.4 cm )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $250,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
The River, Baie-Saint-Paul
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1929 lower right; inscribed indistinctly on the stretcher
25 x 32 in ( 63.5 x 81.3 cm )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
PAUL KANE
Lodges Near Fort Vancouver, 1847
watercolour
titled lower centre, catalogue raisonné no. IV-397a
5.5 x 9.25 in ( 14 x 23.5 cm ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
ALBERT HENRY ROBINSON
Les Éboulements en haut
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled and dated "circa 1924" on the gallery labels on the reverse
22 x 26 in ( 55.9 x 66 cm )
Auction Estimate: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
WILLIAM KURELEK
Negrich Family Threshing Outfit
oil and graphite on masonite
signed with monogram and dated indistictly
17.75 x 30.5 in ( 45.1 x 77.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Eastern Arctic
oil on panel
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1930, inscribed “Artic” [sic], “Joe McCulley”, “owned by “H.V. Ross” and the Naomi Jackson Groves inventory number (”NJG 108”) on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 in ( 21.6 x 26.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
FRANK HANS JOHNSTON
Sun Song of Algoma
tempera on paper board
signed lower left; titled and dated circa 1920 on the gallery label on the reverse
40 x 30 in ( 101.6 x 76.2 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD
Lake O’Hara
oil on board
signed and dated 1925 lower left
8.5 x 10.5 in ( 21.6 x 26.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
MARC-AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ
Indian in the Wood (Indien à la chasse)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1907 lower left
25.75 x 18.5 in ( 65.4 x 47 cm )
Auction Estimate: $50,000.00 - $60,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
ETHEL SEATH
St. Sulpice Garden, 1930
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on a label on the reverse
16 x 12 in ( 40.6 x 30.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
LIONEL LEMOINE FITZGERALD
Untitled (Broken Tree in Landscape)
oil on canvas
signed lower left; inscribed “G56-29” on the reverse
14 x 17 in ( 35.6 x 43.2 cm )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $40,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
KENNETH CAMPBELL LOCHHEAD
Wide Inside (AC-33)
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated 1964 on the reverse
68 x 80 in ( 172.7 x 203.2 cm )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $35,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
MARIAN MILDRED DALE SCOTT
Staircase, circa 1940
double-sided oil on canvas
signed on the reverse
24 x 18 in ( 61 x 45.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
ARTHUR LISMER
Georgian Bay
watercolour on paper
signed and dated 1938 lower right
15.5 x 21.75 in ( 39.4 x 55.2 cm )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Sale Date: May 30th 2024
Spring Live Auction
Session 1
Important Canadian & International Art
Lots 1-98
Thursday, May 30th at 7:00 EDT
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Lots 101-137
Thursday, May 30th, following Session 1
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