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MANLY EDWARD MACDONALD
Fishing Fleet, Gloucester
oil on canvas
signed lower left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
24 x 30 in ( 61 x 76.2 cm )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized: $4,080.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
WILLIAM HENRY CLAPP
Overhanging Streambank
oil on board
signed and dated (twice) 1937 lower left; titled on a label on the reverse; inscribed "C 6911 208" on the gallery label on the reverse
15 x 18 in ( 38.1 x 45.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized: $2,880.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
FREDERICK WILLIAM HUTCHISON
Road to Malbaie, P.Q.
oil on canvas
signed lower left; titled on the reverse
12.25 x 16.5 in ( 31.1 x 41.9 cm )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
WILFRED MOLSON BARNES
When Morning Comes
oil on board
signed lower left; titled on an exhibition label on the reverse
9.5 x 13.25 in ( 24.1 x 33.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized: $540.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
FARQUHAR MCGILLIVRAY STRACHAN KNOWLES
St. Catherine Bay, River St. Lawrence
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1884 lower left; signed and titled on the stretcher on the reverse
22 x 38.5 in ( 55.9 x 97.8 cm )
This sale is now closed.
HENRY SANDHAM
Second Architecture, Chateau Fort Bouillon
oil on card
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
8.5 x 6 in ( 21.6 x 15.2 cm )
This sale is now closed.
WILLIAM BRYMNER
Pastoral Landscape
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1889 lower right
10 x 13 in ( 25.4 x 33 cm )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00
Price Realized: $1,320.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
LIONEL MACDONALD STEPHENSON
Fort Garry
oil on board
initialled lower left, titled and dated 1869 lower right
11 x 16.5 in ( 27.9 x 41.9 cm )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized: $450.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER
Floral Still Life
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1891 lower right
16.5 x 9 in ( 41.9 x 22.9 cm )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized: $780.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
ALBERT JACQUES FRANCK
33 Markham Street
watercolour and ink
signed and dated 1968 lower right; titled to the artist and gallery labels on the reverse
7 x 5.5 in ( 17.8 x 14 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,140.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Temple Lodge
colour woodblock print
signed, titled and numbered 19/100 in the lower margin
11 x 7.25 in ( 27.9 x 18.4 cm ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized: $6,720.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
THOMAS FREDERICK HAIG CHATFIELD
Canadian Colour
acrylic on paper
signed lower left; titled and inscribed "Pine Lake, Gravenhurst" on the artist's label on the reverse
21 x 28 in ( 53.3 x 71.1 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized: $1,320.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
THOMAS FREDERICK HAIG CHATFIELD
Fall Mountain
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the gallery label on the reverse
16 x 20 in ( 40.6 x 50.8 cm )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,080.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
CARL FELLMAN SCHAEFER
Pinnacle Hill Woods, Waterloo County
watercolour
signed and dated "28.7.68" lower left; titled on the reverse; titled and dated July 28, 1968 to a gallery label on the reverse
14.5 x 21.5 in ( 36.8 x 54.6 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized: $900.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH
The Meeting of the Waters
watercolour
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
10 x 14.25 in ( 25.4 x 36.2 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,140.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
BERTHE DES CLAYES
Untitled, Stream in Winter
watercolour, oil and charcoal
signed lower left
8 x 11 in ( 20.3 x 27.9 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized: $360.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
ERNEST CAVEN ATKINS
Totem Poles
linocut
signed, titled, dated 1931 and numbered 11/26 in the lower margin; titled and dated 1931 to the exhibition label on the reverse
6.25 x 4.75 in ( 15.9 x 12.1 cm ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized: $600.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
MARGARET MCCLURE
Portrait of a Man
mixed media
initialed lower right
7.75 x 5.75 in ( 19.7 x 14.6 cm )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized: $240.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
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