Auction Catalogue
November Auction of Canadian & International Art (Online Auction)
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MANLY EDWARD MACDONALD
Horses and Carriage; Pair of Figure Studies
two pencil sketches
- “Horses and Carriage” - signed lower right (6.25 x 7.25 ins. [sight]);
- “Pair of Figure Studies” (4.5 x 2.5 ins. [sight - each])
6.25 x 7.25 ins ( 15.9 x 18.4 cms ) ( largest (sight) )
Price Realized: $390.00
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Ten Art Reference Books
ten books
- “Edmund Morris ‘Kyaiyii’ 1871-1913” (Geoffrey Simmins and Michael Parke-Taylor, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 1984);
- “Canadian Artists of the Second World War” (Joan Murray, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 1981);
- “Canadian Artists and Airmen 1940-45” (Jerrold Morris, The Morris Gallery, Toronto);
- “F. H. Varley” (The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, 1981);
- “Rodin Bronzes: From the Collection of B. Gerald Cantor” (The American Federation of Arts, New York, 1969);
- “Albert Franck: Keeper of the Lanes” (Harold Town, McLelland and Stewart Limited, 1974);
- “Lucius R. O’Brien: Visions of Victorian Canada” (Dennis Reid, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1990);
- “Industrial Images” (Rosemary Donegan, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1987);
- “The Canadian Art Club 1907-1915” (Robert J. Lamb, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1988);
- “F. H. Varley: Portraits into the Light” (Katerina Atanassova, Dundern Press, Toronto, 2007)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Price Realized: $120.00
BOOKS AND REFERENCE
Seven Canadian Art Reference Books
seven books
- “Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries” (Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens, Goose Lane Editions and McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 2017);
- “A Vital Force: The Canadian Group of Painters” (Agnes Etherington Art Centre and The Robert McKaughlin Gallery, 2013) - signed by the authors on the title page;
- “Colville” (David Burnett, Art Gallery of Ontario, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1983);
- “Alex Colville: Paintings, Prints and Processes 1983-1994” (Philip Fry, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1994);
- “Goodridge Roberts 1904-1974” (Sandra Paikowsky, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 1998);
- “Arthur Dominique Rozaire: Poet with a Brush” (George Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, 1998);
- “Kurelek’s Canada” (Canadian Heritage Library, Pagurian Press Limited, Toronto, 1975)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Price Realized: $120.00
DORA DE PEDERY-HUNT
The Metro Toronto Zoo
bronze
signed and dated 1972 at the right edge
3.75 x 3.75 x .25 ins ( 9.5 x 9.5 x .6 cms ) ( overall )
Price Realized: $330.00
KENNETH DANBY
The Dreamer
lithograph
signed, dated 1972 and numbered 58/100 in the lower margin
20 x 15.5 ins ( 50.8 x 39.4 cms )
Price Realized: $900.00
KENOJUAK ASHEVAK
Bright Owl
colour etching
inscribed with the artist’s name (in Roman and Syllabics), title, date (1967) and edition (48/50)
6 x 7.75 ins ( 15.2 x 19.7 cms ) ( plate size )
Price Realized: $570.00
FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN
Oxen Hauling Logs in the Townships
coloured crayon drawing
signed lower right; titled and dated “circa 1926” on a gallery label on the reverse
4 x 6 ins ( 10.2 x 15.2 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $780.00
CARL BEAM
Self-portrait at the ocean of our great unlimited stupidness
mixed media on paper
signed lower right; artist’s seal lower left; unframed
15.25 x 11.75 ins ( 38.7 x 29.8 cms )
Price Realized: $300.00
CARL BEAM
Strange Confluence in Space
mixed media on paper
signed lower right; artist’s seal lower left; dated 1977 on the reverse; unframed
15.25 x 12 ins ( 38.7 x 30.5 cms )
Price Realized: $270.00
CARL BEAM
Portrait of Anongonse Migwans Beams, my daughter, as a shooting star
mixed media on paper
signed lower right; artist’s seal lower left; unframed
15.25 x 12 ins ( 38.7 x 30.5 cms )
Price Realized: $240.00
GRANT KENNETH MACDONALD
Woman in White with Arches
egg tempera on panel
signed and dated 1968 lower right; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
12 x 10 ins ( 30.5 x 25.4 cms )
Price Realized: $390.00
RITA LETENDRE
Sliding Speed
serigraph
signed, titled, dated 1967 and numbered 2/20 at the lower right
13.75 x 18.75 ins ( 34.9 x 47.6 cms ) ( sheet )
Price Realized: $1,560.00
WILLIAM ARTHUR WINTER
Fish for Dinner
watercolour and graphite on paper
signed lower right
16 x 22 ins ( 40.6 x 55.9 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized: $330.00
GEORGE HENRY GRIFFIN
Summer Landscape
oil on board
artist stamp on the reverse
11.5 x 14.5 ins ( 29.2 x 36.8 cms )
Price Realized: $600.00
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