BANNER PRICES ACHIEVED AT JOYNER FALL AUCTION OF IMPORTANT CANADIAN ART

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven achieved banner prices during the Joyner Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art on Tuesday evening.

Tom Thomson’s Winter Morning, an outstanding forest interior landscape painting, featuring a visually striking image on its front with fascinating notations and inscriptions on its reverse, sold for $973,000 (all prices include 18% Buyer’s Premium) in the standing-room only auction room. The painting, which was featured on the cover of the Fall auction catalogue, becomes one of the top ten highest prices ever achieved at auction for works by this iconic painter.

Mountain, Consolation Lake, a circa 1927 oil painting by Group of Seven founding member, Lawren Harris fetched $708,000, almost double the low-end of the work’s presale auction estimate. The painting (depicting Mt. Quadra in the Wemchemka Pass area of Banff National Park) once hung in the collection of Harris’ family, having been owned by Bess Harris, the artist’s second wife, before passing by descent through the family.

Franklin Carmichael’s Mill Houses, West River, represented a second significant consignment which was once part of the artist’s family’s private collection and also sold for $708,000. The northern Ontario industrial landscape is believed to be one of only four canvases which the artist produced presenting the human element within the Canadian landscape and becomes the second highest price ever paid for a work by the artist at auction. The 30 by 36 inch painting had been featured in multiple exhibitions at institutions across the country, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Sudbury, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Charles Pachter’s Dressage, featuring the artist’s Queen and Moose imagery, sold for $35,400, just shy of the auction record for the artist, set by Joyner last spring when The Painted Flag fetched $37,760 and is now part of the permanent collection of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg.

Spirited bidding was witnessed throughout the Tuesday night auction, with many works of art exceeding their auction estimates.

The second session of the Fall Canadian Art Auction will be held online, with bidding beginning at 10:00 am on Wednesday, November 25th (online previewing began on Tuesday, November 3rd).

Joyner Waddington’s Canadian Fine Art, a division of Waddington’s Auctioneers (Canada’s oldest fine art auction house – founded in 1850) is a leading firm for sales of fine Canadian Art. Over $60 million has been sold by Joyner Waddington’s since the merger of Joyner Fine Art and Waddington’s Auctioneers in the fall of 2002. Joyner Waddington’s is recognized for having achieved record prices for works by Important Canadian Artists, including multiple members of the Group of Seven.

For further information, please contact Rob Cowley or Lydia Medeiros at 416-504-5100 (toll-free at 877-504-5700, ext. 6178). Press kits including the auction catalogue are also available upon request.