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2 - 10 June 2010 (Online Auction)
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22 - 25 March 2010 (Online Auction)
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1 June 2010
A new world record for a painting by A.J. Casson was set during the Joyner Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art on Tuesday evening.
As anticipated, Street In Glen Willliams, a magnificent canvas by A.J. Casson, attracted spirited bidding amongst bidders in the auction room and fetched an astounding $542,800, setting a new auction record for a work of art by Casson. This large signature work by the celebrated Group of Seven artist was executed during the late 1930s, a pivotal period for Casson, and the excitement evidenced during the preview and the auction exemplifies this importance. Casson’s depiction of the Ontario town nestled within a frame of autumn foliage in Street In Glen Williams carried an auction estimate of $200,000-250,000, the highest pre-sale range ever attached to a work by Casson. The painting, which was featured on the cover of the Spring auction catalogue and was purchased by a western Canadian buyer, deservedly takes the coveted place of the highest price ever achieved at auction for works by this celebrated painter.
Additional highlights from
June 2010
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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30 November - 3 December 2009 (Online Auction)
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24 November 2009
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.
Additional highlights from
November 2009
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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21 - 24 September 2009 (Online Auction)
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27 May - June 4 2009 (Online Auction)
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26 May 2009
The Painted Flag, an iconic 1981 canvas by Toronto artist Charles Pachter sold for $37,760 (all prices include buyer's premium) during Joyner Canadian Fine Art's Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art, a new auction record for a work by the artist.
Additional highlights from May 2009
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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23—26 March 2009 (Online Auction)
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27—28 May 2008
Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven continued their dominance of prices in the Canadian Auction Market during Joyner Waddington’s Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art.
View From A Height, Algonquin Park, 1916, an 8 x 10 ins oil sketch by Tom Thomson sold for $1,207,500 on Tuesday evening (all prices include buyer’s premium). The price was the third highest ever recorded for the iconic painter who died under mysterious circumstances in 1917. Joyner Waddington’s was delighted with the result for the “compositional masterpiece”. “This incredible work by Thomson was admired by many during our auction previews and certainly deserves the result it achieved this evening, a price that exceeded the high end of our pre-sale auction estimate”, commented Rob Cowley, Director of Joyner Waddington’s.
The cover-piece for the Spring Auction, Leaves and Flowers by Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald generated spirited bidding in the auction gallery, finally hammering down at $126,500, more than twice its high-end auction estimate of $30,000-50,000. The 8 x 10 inch still life was painted in 1916, a pivotal year for the artist and Canadian Art in general. The painting was also reproduced in a 1965 article in MacLean’s magazine about MacDonald entitled “Hidden Treasures of a Shy Rebel”.
Additional highlights from May 2008
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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25—26 November 2008
A pair of very different winter scenes by Ukrainian-Canadian artist William Kurelek, were highlights of Joyner Waddington’s Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art. Balsam Avenue After Heavy Snowfall, a large oil painting by Kurelek depicting the aftermath of a winter storm generated heated bidding in the standing-room only auction gallery, finally selling for $241,400 (all prices include 15% Buyer’s Premium), exceeding its presale auction estimate of $175,000-200,000. The painting, which featured the artist himself and his small children as part of the subject, became only the fourth work by the artist to sell above the $200,000 mark. A second work by Kurelek, Lumberjacks Returning To Camp, sold for $57,500. The painting presents a line of lumberjacks returning to their camp while being watched by a large bear and her cubs in the foreground. Kurelek himself worked as a lumberjack at the age of 19.
Additional Highlights from November 2008
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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29—30 May 2007
The Group of Seven once again realized magnificent results with Sun Gleams Near Bic, a large canvas by A.Y. Jackson fetching $478,000, double its presale auction estimate. The standing-room only crowd erupted in applause as the lot, which was also featured on the auction catalogue's cover, was hammered down by Joyner Waddington's director and auctioneer Rob Cowley.
Additional Highlights from May 2007
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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20—21 November 2007
A magnificent panel painted by iconic artist, Tom Thomson, was the highlight of Joyner Waddington’s Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art, selling for $1,463,500 (including buyer’s premium). The price marks a new world record for the artist and is the only painting to exceed the million dollar mark thus far in the Fall Auction Season.
Spring Thaw, a rare oil on panel was painted by Thomson in the Spring of 1917, mere months before the artist’s mysterious death in Algonquin Park after disappearing on a canoe trip. The painting was a gift from Thomson to his sister, Minnie Thomson Henry. The 5 x 7 inch gem remained in the Thomson family until the early 1970s, when it was acquired by a private Ontario collector. The room broke into thunderous applause as Director and auctioneer, Robert Cowley, hammered down the tiny sketch in front of a standing-room only crowd.
Contemporary art continued the recent trend of fetching consistently strong prices, well in excess of the auction estimates. In particular, Arc-En-Ciel Rouge, a 1962 canvas by Jean McEwen, estimated at $30,000, realized a price of $97,750. The canvas was purchased by a west coast buyer.
This spectacular auction attracted collectors and dealers from across the country with works being bought by clients from every major Canadian city.
Additional Highlights from November 2007
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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30—31 May 2006
An 1886 work by George Reid depicting Toronto’s waterfront in the late Nineteenth Century as well as works by Kazuo Nakamura and Ronald Bloore shattered their respective auction records during the Joyner™ Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art. Also selling well beyond expectations were paintings by members of the Group of Seven.
Additional Highlights from May 2006
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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28—29 November 2006
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.
Additional Highlights from November 2006
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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25 November 1987
The Collection of the late Lawrence T. Porter of St. Andrew’s East, Quebec
Additional Highlights from November 1987
Canadian Fine Art Auction
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