Does the above painting ring a bell? "Lawren Harris"? "Canada's Group of Seven"? Well, it should, after our field trip to the AGO.
The Toronto Star reports that "Harris’s Bylot Island I, an oil-on-canvas Arctic landscape painted in the early 1930s, attracted a high bid of $2.4 million and sold for $2,808,000 after the 17 per cent buyer premium."
According to the report:
So, is your understanding of Canadian culture worth a million bucks?
Harris wasn’t the only Group of Seven painter who fared well.
An oil on canvas by Arthur Lismer titled The Sheep’s Nose, Bon Echo sold for $1,111,500. The 1922 work depicts a cliff in eastern Ontario’s Bon Echo Provincial Park. Another Lismer artwork that had a presale estimate of $25,000 sold for $117,000.
Three of Alexander Young Jackson’s works went for more than $200,000, and James Edward Hervey’s Rock and Maple 2 sold for $245,700 despite the fact its presale estimate had a maximum of $90,000.
Two works by Tom Thomson, who was friends with the Group of Seven members but died before the organization was founded, were up for sale but neither one was bought. Landscape with Snow/Northern Mist had a presale estimate starting at $400,000 and Early Morning, Georgian Bay had an estimate that began at $200,000.
Emily Carr, who also wasn’t in the group but knew its members well, had a number of items up for grabs.
Her painting Stumps, which depicts a B.C. forest, sold for $555,750. A painting of Carr and her sister, titled Emily and Lizzie, went for $468,000, as did her Young Arbutus.
Enjoy the Heffel's auction below:
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