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Heffel $14.1m Spring Sale Sets Jack Bush Record

May 31, 2018 by Marion Maneker

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Heffel’s Spring sale of Post-War and Contemporary art held last night totaled $14.1m with a new world record for Jack Hamilton Bush at $691k (above.) The lead lot of the sale was:

  • Paul-Émile Borduas, Figures schématiques, from 1956 sold for $3,601,250, shattering the previous record for the artist
  • Morning, Lake Superior by Group of Seven founder Lawren Harris (below)sold for  $1,141,250 ($100,000 – 150,000), nearly ten times its presale estimate. The small, but inspiring work is a preparatory sketch for a pivotal canvas by the artist, hanging in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Two significant works by Quebec-born Jean Paul Lemieux reached impressive heights in the Post-War & Contemporary Art session. Le Cavalier dans la neige sold for $841,250 (est. $700,000 – 900,000) and Le temps retrouvé – Kent House 1913 for $391,250 (est. $200,000 – 300,000)
  • Strawberry by Jack Bush set a new and impressive artist record and sold for $691,250 (est. $350,000 – 450,000)
  • A.J. Casson, a Group of Seven member, achieved $541,250 (est. $150,000 – 250,000) for Farmhouse Near Wingle
  • Tom Thomson’s Sketch for Lake in Algonquin Park was recently rediscovered by a woman from Alberta. After significant bidder participation, the painting, which relates to a significant canvas by the artist, sold for $481,250 (est. $125,000 – 175,000)
  • Robert Pilot’s superb Quebec City from Lévis sold for $337,250 and broke the artist record (est. $50,000 – 80,000)
  • Emily Carr’s Sophie Frank, a rare watercolour, sold for four times its presale estimate at $277,250 (est. $50,000 – 70,000)
  • An untitled acrylic on paper by Sam Francis sold for $169,250 (est. $25,000 – 35,000), The Friendly Well by Jack Butler Yeats sold for $229,250 (est. $100,000 – 150,000) and T1950-57 by Hans Hartung sold for $205,000 (est. $70,000 – 90,000)

Monet Sold in UK Attracts Bids from China and India but Winds Up in Canadian Museum

August 14, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Monet, Le Pont de Bois

What happens after the bidding war ends? Well, in the case of this Monet, the work ends up on loan to the buyer’s favorite museum. Now the game becomes guessing the buyer’s nationality because when it was sold at Sotheby’s in London this June, there were competing bids from a Chinese-speaking client, an Indian client and the Sotheby’s staffer who eventually won it.

The National Gallery of Canada has been loaned a multi-million dollar painting by beloved Impressionist painter Claude Monet. The moody Le Pont de bois, created in 1872, was given to the gallery on a long-term loan by an art lover who wishes to remain anonymous.

It becomes the sixth Monet at the National Gallery, which has the largest public collection of Monet’s works in Canada.

Le Pont de bois was just sold in June at Sotheby’s art auction in London for $9.6 million U.S. News reports don’t identify the buyer, but a bidding war boosted the price above original estimates of its worth of between $6.1-$9.2 million.

National Gallery Obtains Its Sixth Monet Painting (Ottawa Citizen)

Artists v. Dealers: Canadian Edition

March 1, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore is raising a legal defense fund by selling works donated by her peers. Belmore needs the money to defend a suit from her former dealer:

The dealer, Toronto-based Nadimi Gallery, alleged breach of contract after the artist attempted to end her relationship with the gallery in late 2006. The gallery has claimed $750,000 in compensation. […]

Belmore, who represented Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale and was recently featured in a major solo exhibit in Vancouver, is happy that artists rallied to her aid with the auction idea.

“Maybe, somehow, issues that are part of this situation will be brought to the forefront and some good will come out of it,” she said.

Belmore Supporters Auction Art in Her Defense (CBC News)

Canada Gooses Art Sales

December 6, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Sotheby’s sale of Canadian art last week, its first without Ritchie’s, was a strong showing with real excitement for several of the works:

harris-lakesup3-cp-sothLake Superior Sketch III, a dramatic Canadian Shield landscape shown above, painted by Group of Seven founder Lawren Harris in the mid-1920s, was sold at auction last night in Toronto by Sotheby’s Canada for $968,500. While not a record for a Harris oil sketch – that was set at $3.51-million one week ago by Heffel auctioneers, also in Toronto – the winning bid for Lake Superior Sketch III easily bested Sotheby’s $300,000 to $500,000 pre-sale estimate for the work.Continue Reading

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