November 2013 Online Sale Catalogue
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NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Opens: 07-Nov-2013 04:00:00 PM Estimated closing time: 30-Nov-2013 03:00:00 PM (with 3 minutes extension until no further bids received) Viewing: All works can be viewed on the Internet at www.heffel.com and at Heffel Gallery, 2247 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, or at Heffel Fine Art Auction House, 13 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto, ON, or at Gallerie Heffel, 1840 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada Note: Sale to be held through the Internet at www.heffel.com. Any estimates for this sale are in Canadian Dollars. Telephone and absentee bids accepted. Buyer's Premium 17% Heffel Fine Art Auction House Heffel Gallery Inc. Heffel Fine Art Auctioneers Galerie Heffel Québec Ltée. 2247 Granville Street 13 Hazelton Avenue 451 Daly Avenue 1840 rue Sherbrooke Ouest Vancouver, BC, V6H 3G1 Toronto, ON, M5R 2E1 Ottawa, ON, K1N 6E7 Montreal, QC, H3H 1E4 Phone: 00 1 604 732 6505 Phone: 00 1 416 961-6505 Phone: 00 1 613 230 6505 Phone: 00 1 514 939-6505 Mobile: 00 1 604 418 6505 Fax: 00 1 416 961-4245 Fax: 00 1 613 230 8884 Fax: 00 1 514 939-1100 Fax: 00 1 604 732 4245 Email: [email protected] NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 1 of 69 201 DAVID BIERK 1944 - 2002 Canadian Still Life, To Art and Life: Michelangelo and Gauguin mixed media initialed in each of the three panels and on verso signed, titled and dated 18 October 1994 27 1/2 x 65 3/4 inches 69.8 x 167 centimeters Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $20,000 CDN Estimate: $25,000 ~ $35,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto 202 ALFRED JOSEPH (A.J.) CASSON CGP CSPWC G7 POSA PRCA 1898 - 1992 Canadian Sundown, Madawaska River oil on board signed and on verso signed and titled 12 x 14 3/4 inches 30.5 x 37.5 centimeters Provenance: Roberts Gallery, Toronto Kastel Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Turks and Caicos Islands Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $11,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $16,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal 203 FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN AAM RCA 1871 - 1960 Canadian Cross Country Skiing in the Laurentians oil on canvas signed and dated 1932 20 x 25 3/4 inches 50.8 x 65.4 centimeters Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist By descent to the present Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $13,000 CDN Estimate: $14,000 ~ $18,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 2 of 69 204 FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN AAM RCA 1871 - 1960 Canadian On the Melbourne Road, Eastern Townships oil on canvas signed and dated 1929 and on verso titled on the gallery label 12 x 17 inches 30.5 x 43.2 centimeters Provenance: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal Private Collection, Toronto By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $12,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $15,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto 205 EMILY COONAN BHG 1885 - 1971 Canadian Quebec Landscape oil on canvas signed and on verso titled on a label 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters Provenance: Patricia Coonan, the Artist's sister Charlotte Tansey, Montreal A gift from Charlotte Tansey to the present Private Collection, Montreal, 1977 Exhibited: Literature: An early exponent of Canadian modernism, Emily Coonan first took art classes at Conseil des arts et manufactures, but her formative studies were later at the Art Association of Montreal. During this time, William Brymner became her teacher and, with his encouragement, Coonan and fellow artist Henrietta Mabel May traveled to France, Belgium and Holland in 1912. This trip allowed Coonan to see the work of the French Impressionists and greatly expanded her artistic horizons. She returned to France in 1920, enabled by a traveling grant awarded by the National Gallery of Canada. This trip proved to be significant, and subsequently her work began to indicate modernist sensibilities through increasingly simplified portraits and landscapes. Also in 1920, she became a member of the important Beaver Hall Group, and exhibited regularly at the Art Association of Montreal and the Royal Canadian Academy. Coonan frequently traveled to the Quebec countryside to paint en plein air, and this work illustrates her clear admiration of her surroundings. With its harmonious colour palette and simplified forms, Quebec Landscape is a charming work from this important female modernist. Starting Bid: $10,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $16,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 3 of 69 206 GREGORY RICHARD CURNOE 1936 - 1992 Canadian Doc Morton, Front Wheel serigraph on plexiglass signed, titled, editioned 11/65 and dated May 24 - July 4, 1980 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches 69.8 x 69.8 centimeters Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: Pierre Théberge, Greg Curnoe, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1980, reproduced page 190, catalogue #161and a related watercolour entitled High Flange Doc Morton Front Hub, DB Rim reproduced page 171, catalogue #121 Greg Curnoe was an avid cyclist, and his hand-built Mariposa bicycles were an important subject in his oeuvre. The title refers to Doc Morton, a member of the Canadian Olympic bicycle racing team circa 1920, also the owner of Lakeshore Cycles in Toronto, where he hand-built racing bicycles and modified CCM Flyers. Starting Bid: $11,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $16,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver 207 LAWREN STEWART HARRIS ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG 1885 - 1970 Canadian Laurentians oil on panel signed and on verso titled and inscribed "Laurentians sketching trip with J. MacD 1913/14, Thoreau MacDonald" 5 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches 14 x 22.5 centimeters Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. A. Crawford Kenny Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited: Literature: After he returned from Germany, Lawren Harris’s first Canadian sketching trip was to Quebec’s Laurentians in fall 1908, which resulted in his first major Canadian landscape canvas, Deserted Barn, Laurentians. In 1911 Harris met J.E.H. MacDonald, and in the fall of 1913, the soon-to-be fellow Group of Seven artists traveled to the Laurentians. Harris did a number of small panels on this trip, including Laurentians, verified by the verso inscription by MacDonald’s son, Thoreau - although it is uncertain whether this indicates the painting was once in Thoreau's possession. In some of Harris’s Laurentian scenes he used a select palette of warm and cool earth tones, and here he used primarily taupe, umber, brown and orange. The central haystacks, with their unusual forms, are a focal point, contrasted with long, fluid brush-strokes that give rhythm and flow to the surrounding cultivated land. In the hills behind, the oranges and golds of autumn smoulder through the trees. Harris makes the juxtaposition of rustic farmland and wild nature vital and fresh in this engaging rural scene. Starting Bid: $20,000 CDN Estimate: $20,000 ~ $30,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 4 of 69 208 RANDOLPH STANLEY HEWTON BHG CGP RCA 1888 - 1960 Canadian Murray Bay, View from Cap a l'Aigle oil on canvas signed and on verso titled and stamped with the Hewton Estate stamp and numbered 212 12 x 15 inches 30.5 x 38.1 centimeters Provenance: The Art Emporium, Vancouver Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $9,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $15,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto 209 EDWIN HEADLEY HOLGATE AAM BHG CGP CSGA G7 RCA 1892 - 1977 Canadian Old Barn oil on panel initialed and on verso titled 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches 21 x 26.7 centimeters Provenance: O.J. Firestone, Ottawa Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $10,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $15,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto 210 ALEXANDER YOUNG (A.Y.) JACKSON ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA 1882 - 1974 Canadian European Scene oil on board signed 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches 18.7 x 23.8 centimeters Provenance: Kastel Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $7,000 CDN Estimate: $8,000 ~ $10,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 5 of 69 211 ALEXANDER YOUNG (A.Y.) JACKSON ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA 1882 - 1974 Canadian Farm, Combermere, Ontario oil on board signed and on verso titled and dated 1961 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches 26.7 x 34.3 centimeters Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $11,000 CDN Estimate: $12,000 ~ $16,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal 212 ALEXANDER YOUNG (A.Y.) JACKSON ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA 1882 - 1974 Canadian Sailing Boats off the Shore oil on board signed and on verso inscribed "Varnish" in graphite and stamped The Paris American Art Co., 125 Boul du Montparnasse & 2, Rue Bonaparte, 2 Paris 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches 21.6 x 26.7 centimeters Provenance: Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $7,000 CDN Estimate: $8,000 ~ $12,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal 213 ALEXANDER YOUNG (A.Y.) JACKSON ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA 1882 - 1974 Canadian Settler's Home oil on board signed and on verso titled on the gallery label, inscribed by Naomi Jackson Groves: "Settler's Home, possibly Opeongo area, Ontario, painted early 1960s" and certified by Naomi Jackson Groves, 11 May 1986, NGC#2516 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches 26.7 x 34.3 centimeters Provenance: Galerie Valentin, Montreal Private Collection, USA Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $9,000 CDN Estimate: $10,000 ~ $15,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal NOVEMBER 2013 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 6 of 69 214 FRANK HANS (FRANZ) JOHNSTON ARCA CSPWC G7 OSA 1888 - 1949 Canadian Coldwell, Lake Superior mixed media on board signed, dated 1930 and inscribed "Toronto, Can" 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters Provenance: Private Collection, England Exhibited: Literature: On verso inscribed: "Pinxit Franz Johnston, Dederunt S.C.M.