A 19th Century painting depicting the immediate aftermath of a Habitant Sleigh Accident and small works by the Group of Seven were among the highlights of Joyner Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art. The two-day auction attracted fierce competition between bidders both in the packed auction gallery as well as international bidders, participating by telephone.

CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF
RUN OFF THE ROAD IN A BLIZZARD, oil on canvas, signed
12 ins x 18 ins; 30 cms x 45 cms
Auction Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Price Realized: $309,900.00

Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ford III
Private Collection, Detroit, Michigan

Literature:
J. Russell Harper, Krieghoff, Toronto, 1979, no. 72, reproduced.
Dennis Reid, Krieghoff / Images of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1999, page 242, no. 128, colour plate, for a similar subject (The Thomson Collection)

According to Harper, the mid-nineteenth century traveller in lower Canada faced many risks. A "serious hazard for winter travellers were the blizzards". Harper, referring to this particular painting, writes that, this "...blizzard painting is punctuated with oaths: the driver has been upset by a brash fellow in a hurry who forced him off the track into the ditch."

JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD, O.S.A., R.C.A.
IN ALGOMA, oil on board, signed
8 1/2 ins x 10 1/2 ins; 21.25 cms x 26.25 cms
Auction Estimate $25,000 - 30,000
Price Realized: $253,000.00

Literature:
Paul Duval, The Tangled Garden, The Art of J. E. H. MacDonald, Scarborough, 1978, page 89.

Duval, writing about MacDonald's Algoma trips, states that in the "small, on-the-spot oil sketches created during his three trips, we already find the astonishing impact Algoma had upon him as an artist. Precisely observed and brilliantly drawn with a free, loaded brush, these little panels reveal a new creative confidence and technical assurance. MacDonald painted mostly on millboard panels, a bookbinder's board from Brown Brothers in Toronto. His son prepared those for him with a coat of shellac."

LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
ALGOMA SKETCH CXI, oil on panel
10 1/2 ins x 13 1/2 ins; 26.25 cms x 33.75 cms
Auction Estimate $80,000 - 100,000
Price Realized: $161,000.00

Provenance:
Acquired from the artist

DAVID BROWN MILNE
ROCK IN THE BAY, oil on canvas, signed and dated '35
12 ins x 14 ins; 30 cms x 35 cms
Auction Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Price Realized: $86,250.00

Provenance:
The Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey (1935)
L.B. Pearson, London, England (circa 1937)
Morris Gallery, Toronto (1962)
M. Davis, Toronto (1962)
Purchased by the present owner (1964)

Literature:
David B. Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonne of The Paintings, Volume 2: 1929-1953, Toronto, 1998, page 603, no.304.24, reproduced.

The subject is the bay west of Milne's Cabin.

FRANK HANS JOHNSTON, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
THE BAY, oil on board, signed, also entitled "Sunny Day" and "Lake of the Woods" on the backing
13 1/4 ins x 10 1/4 ins; 33.13 cms x 25.63 cms
Auction Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Price Realized: $82,800.00

Exhibited:
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, 1926