JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE

(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, , 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%

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JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 1 of 11 301 FRÉDÉRIC BACK 1924 - Canadian Two Works

16 x 26 inches 40.6 x 66 centimeters

Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Please note: these works are unframed. Starting Bid: $1,500 CDN Estimate: $2,500 ~ $3,500 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

302 LÉON BELLEFLEUR QMG 1910 - 2007 Canadian Bourrasques de mars oil on canvas

signed and dated 1986 and on verso signed, titled and dated 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Léon Bellefleur studied at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal, and pursued a teaching career in the city for 25 years. In 1948 he signed the manifesto Prisme d’Yeux, formed in reponse to the more radical ideological approach of the Automatists, along with , , , and others. Through his association with Prisme d’Yeux, he came to be influenced by Surrealism and the work of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró. Bellefleur’s oeuvre is characterized by rich lyrical abstraction, and in his paintings, colour, movement and form dynamically combine. In 1954, Bellefleur traveled to Europe, setting up a studio in where he experimented with painting techniques, working with a spatula to create dimensional effects. In 1966 he returned to permanently. Bellefleur was given a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1968, and his works have been acquired by public collections such the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Starting Bid: $6,000 CDN Estimate: $8,000 ~ $10,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 2 of 11 303 PAUL-ÉMILE BORDUAS CAS QMG RCA 1905 - 1960 Canadian Sans titre mixed media on paper

signed 12 x 9 1/2 inches 30.5 x 24.1 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas: Biographie critique et analyse de l'oeuvre, 1978, the similar 1924 gouache on paper work entitled Les trois soeurs reproduced, unpaginated, #4, index of black and white works This work could be a study for or another version of the gouache painting entitled Les trois soeurs which is reproduced in François-Marc Gagnon's biography on Borduas. On verso, there is an unfinished pencil and watercolour study of leaves by the artist. The inscription on this study, written by a previous owner, translates from the french as "Precious souvenir from a young artist battling with life. Marguerite de Montigny Lafontaine, painter and sculptor, June 14, 1972." Starting Bid: $3,500 CDN Estimate: $4,500 ~ $6,500 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

304 SAMUEL BORENSTEIN CAS 1908 - 1969 Canadian French Countryside gouache on card

signed twice 15 x 30 inches 38.1 x 76.2 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited: Literature: It was Samuel Borenstein’s dream to travel to Paris to visit the city’s museums - most particularly to view the work of Vincent van Gogh and Chaim Soutine - and in 1939 he was able to accomplish it. Initially he lived in a small apartment in Meudon, a suburb of Paris, then spent six months in Brittany. Based in the village of Tréboul, he enjoyed the isolation, which enabled him to concentrate on his painting. Due to the impending threat of war, he returned to Canada at the end of that year. His exposure to the work he had seen in France, particularly Soutine’s explosive colour and chaotic compositions, was a liberating experience for Borenstein. His work became known for its energetic, expressionist style, and his subjects were most often vivid cityscapes and rural scenes, such as this dynamic painting. Starting Bid: $4,000 CDN Estimate: $5,000 ~ $7,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 3 of 11 305 YEHOUDA CHAKI 1938 - Canadian Landscape 1050 oil on canvas

signed and on verso titled 48 x 60 inches 121.9 x 152.4 centimeters

Provenance: Arras Gallery, New York Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Yehouda Chaki was born in Athens, and after living in Tel Aviv from 1945 to 1960, emigrated to Montreal in 1962. He studied at the Avni Academy in Tel Aviv, followed by the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1967 to 1989, Chaki was head of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Fine Arts at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. His work is in the permanent collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée D’art Contemporain de Montreal, the Fort Lauderdale Museum, Florida, Eretz Israel Museum, Musée de Toulon, France and the Museo de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prestigious corporate collections such as the Canadian Embassy in Argentina, the Canadian Consulate in New York, Coca-Cola Limited, Husky Oil and Gaz Metropolitain have acquired his work. Starting Bid: $8,000 CDN Estimate: $8,000 ~ $10,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

306 SERGE LEMOYNE 1941 - 1998 Canadian Sans titre (Maison series) acrylic on canvas

on verso signed and dated 1986 12 x 15 1/4 inches 30.5 x 38.7 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $3,000 CDN Estimate: $4,000 ~ $6,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 4 of 11 307 MARY FRANCES PRATT OC RCA 1935 - Canadian Orange on Tinfoil oil on canvas

signed and dated 1993 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 centimeters

Provenance: Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: Mary Pratt studied at Mount Allison School of Art with Alex Colville, and emerged in the 1960s in the Maritimes as a New Realist painter. Use of photography as a point of departure, a coolness of viewpoint and the depiction of subjects that were considered to be worthwhile of artistic regard simply because they existed, were characteristics of New Realism. Pratt's significance has been recognized in retrospective exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton and the London Regional Art Gallery. Her work is in numerous public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Pratt uses photography as a tool for studying the ephemeral qualities of light in her subjects, which are chosen from her immediate environment. Her method of painting is exacting - using small sable brushes and a fluid medium of turpentine and stand oil, she paints with small cross-hatched strokes which blend together into a smooth, flawless surface. Pratt depicts everyday objects in her still life tableaus with a vision devoid of irony and sentimentality, and although she uses the cool gaze of the camera, she infuses the work with an unmistakable sensuality. This is felt in Orange on Tinfoil in the juiciness of the pulp in the just-peeled fruit, the vibrant colour and the extraordinary beauty of the play of light on surfaces. Light scintillates in the sheen of the pulp and breaks into coloured shards in the reflective surface of the tinfoil. The orange, carefully displayed to reveal its beauty, enticing the viewer with its radiance, becomes something more than the everyday. Orange on Tinfoil is a superb painting that contains the essence of Pratt’s awareness of unique perceptual moments and her intense and sensual response to life. Starting Bid: $40,000 CDN Estimate: $40,000 ~ $60,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

308 DAVID SORENSEN 1937 - Canadian Two Works

18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 centimeters

Provenance: Waddington and Gorce Inc., Montreal Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Waddington and Gorce Inc., Montreal, Corner Series No. 2 exhibited Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, Intimité Lumineuse - Intimacy of Light, Retrospective 1959 - 2005, September 2005 - January 2006, Corner Series No. 2 exhibited Literature: Charles Bourget, Intimité Lumineuse - Intimacy of Light, Retrospective 1959 - 2005, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, 2005, Corner Series No. 2 reproduced page 62 Starting Bid: $4,000 CDN Estimate: $4,000 ~ $6,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 5 of 11 401 MAXWELL BENNETT BATES ASA CGP CSGA CSW RCA 1906 - 1980 Canadian Figure oil on canvas

signed and dated 1978 and on verso titled on the stretcher 20 x 16 inches 50.8 x 40.6 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $2,500 CDN Estimate: $3,000 ~ $5,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

402 MOLLY JOAN LAMB BOBAK BCSFA CGP CPE CSGA CSPWC RCA 1922 - Canadian Flowers oil on canvas

signed and on verso signed and titled 36 x 24 inches 91.4 x 61 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Molly Lamb Bobak graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1942, where her teacher and mentor was . She was the daughter of H. Mortimer Lamb, patron and amateur artist, and married well-known artist Bruno Bobak. During World War II, she was the only woman to be appointed an official war artist. After the war, she taught at the Vancouver School of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the University of British Columbia. Bobak painted landscapes and urban scenes with figures and flower still lifes, such as this spirited, colourful work. After spending four years in Europe on a Canada Council grant, on return to Canada she moved to Fredericton, where she taught at the University of New Brunswick Art Centre from 1960 to 1977. In 1993, the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina organized a major touring retrospective of her work. Starting Bid: $5,000 CDN Estimate: $6,000 ~ $8,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 6 of 11 403 VICTOR CICANSKY 1935 - Canadian Another Bumper Crop ceramic sculpture

signed and dated October 1987 19 x 18 x 11 inches 48.3 x 45.7 x 27.9 centimeters

Provenance: Collection of J. Ron Longstaffe, Vancouver Private Collection, BC Exhibited: Literature: Victor Cicansky’s involvement with the medium of ceramic began while studying in Regina with ceramic artist Jack Sues. Exciting innovations were occurring in the use of this medium - technically, such as adding other materials to the clay, and in style - such as in Funk, an eccentric movement that emerged in California in the 1960s from artists such as David Gilhooly. Cicansky spent two years of study at the University of California, graduating in 1970, and while there, formed connections with Gilhooly and others. Cicansky reinforces his clay with fiberglass, and the textured surfaces of his work contribute to its tactility. His sympathetic and nostalgic images derive from rural life on the prairies, such as this vigorous and humorous tableau of a couple displaying the bounty of their garden. Another Bumper Crop celebrates their practical connection with the earth and their pride in producing their own food. Cicansky has taught at the University of Regina for over 20 years, as well as at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of California at Davis and the Banff School of Fine Arts. His awards include the Victoria and Albert Award for Ceramic Sculpture and the California Kingsley Annual Award for Sculpture. Starting Bid: $5,000 CDN Estimate: $6,000 ~ $8,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

404 TED HARRISON OC SCA 1926 - Canadian Dawson City Character acrylic on canvas board

signed and dated June 1971 and on verso signed, titled and dated 19 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches 50.2 x 59.7 centimeters

Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $1,750 CDN Estimate: $3,500 ~ $4,500 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 7 of 11 405 TED HARRISON OC SCA 1926 - Canadian Purple Hills of Carcross, Yukon acrylic on canvas board

signed and dated 1974 and on verso signed, titled and dated 22 x 28 inches 55.9 x 71.1 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $2,500 CDN Estimate: $3,000 ~ $5,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

406 TED HARRISON OC SCA 1926 - Canadian Red Hydrant acrylic on canvas board

signed and dated 1973 and on verso signed, titled and dated 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches 34.3 x 44.4 centimeters

Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $1,500 CDN Estimate: $3,000 ~ $4,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 8 of 11 407 TONI (NORMAN) ONLEY BCSFA CPE CSPWC RCA 1928 - 2004 Canadian Sunrise, Kwonais Bay, Galiano Island, BC oil on canvas

signed and on verso titled and dated 1989 20 x 48 inches 50.8 x 121.9 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Island Exhibited: Literature: Roger Boulet, Toni Onley: A Silent Thunder, 1981, page 94 Originally from the Isle of Man, Toni Onley received training there from John Hobbs Nicholson, an English watercolour painter. Onley emigrated to Canada in 1948 and moved to BC in 1955, where he became well-known for capturing the essence of West Coast landscape. Onley flew his floatplane all over the BC Coast, and extensively explored the Gulf Islands. He would pull the plane up on a beach, get out his painting box, and paint Zen-like watercolours of the striking land and seascapes before him. The temperament of the atmosphere with its mists and clouds, and the ever-changing ambient light and its effect on form, were of great interest to Onley. He stated, “I played with the shapes of the logs evaporating into water and turning into sky, always trying to keep it as simple as possible.” Eastern aesthetics and philosophy were of great interest to Onley, and his awareness of this contributed to his ability to transmit a spiritual resonance present in the landscape through his work. In the studio, Onley would develop large works on canvas from the watercolours painted on location, such as this fine painting, with its rich colouration and transcendent light. Starting Bid: $6,000 CDN Estimate: $7,000 ~ $9,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

408 JACK LEONARD SHADBOLT BCSFA CGP CSPWC OC RCA 1909 - 1998 Canadian Long Water mixed media on paper laid down on cardboard

signed and dated 1983 and on verso titled 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches 64.8 x 74.9 centimeters

Provenance: Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, New Brunswick Exhibited: Literature: Starting Bid: $2,250 CDN Estimate: $4,000 ~ $6,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 9 of 11 409 GORDON APPELBE SMITH BCSFA CGP CPE OC RCA 1919 - Canadian Horizontal Red acrylic on canvas

on verso signed and titled 50 x 54 3/4 inches 127 x 139 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: In the late 1960s Gordon Smith was challenging his development as an artist, and reading books on colour theory by Johannes Itten and Joseph Albers. He was aware of Albers’s use of geometric forms and intense colours, as well as the hard-edge work being done at the time by BC painters such as Gary Lee-Nova, Roy Kiyooka and Reg Holmes. Smith’s subsequent hard-edge paintings such as Horizontal Red were a departure from his abstracted landscapes, and were richly coloured, as seen in this work’s vibrating red, blue, purple and orange stripes. Using crisp edges and smooth surfaces, Smith experimented with optical effects and expanded his colour sense. This was a vital exploratory period for Smith, and as well as producing a body of hard-edge paintings, he was involved in public commissions, such as a children’s playground at Montreal’s Expo ’67 for which he produced optical play walls. Arthur Erickson involved Smith in his design for the at Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan, for which Smith chose a colour scheme for slowly rotating transparent discs that were reflected in the mirrored surfaces of the building. Starting Bid: $5,000 CDN Estimate: $6,000 ~ $8,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

410 GORDON APPELBE SMITH BCSFA CGP CPE OC RCA 1919 - Canadian Untitled - Dark Pond Series acrylic on canvas

signed and on verso titled and dated 1996 49 3/4 x 45 inches 126.3 x 114.3 centimeters

Provenance: Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection Vancouver Exhibited: Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Gordon Smith, January 16 - February 12, 1997 Literature: Gordon Smith, one of Canada’s most prominent artists, is known for his paintings based on West Coast landscape. In 1995, Smith visited Giverny in France, the location of Claude Monet’s famous garden, which was the inspiration for Monet’s Waterlily paintings. This caused Smith to consider his own back yard pond with its reeds, grasses, flowers and lily pads backed by the surrounding forest, and he began his Pond series works - derived from nature but expressed through abstraction. Smith has always evolved, absorbing modernist approaches and distilling them into his own unique style. The paint on the canvas is as important as the subject, and the expressiveness of his brush-stroke reveals his emotive reaction to the source of his theme. Splashes of charged colours – blue, purple, yellow and red emerge from predominant black and white shapes, and Smith takes us into a world of reflections in motion, with both solid form and water blurring together. This fine painting from the Dark Pond series contains the delicate balance between the image and the properties of the paint surface itself that characterizes Smith’s best work. Included with this lot is an invitation for the 1997 Equinox Gallery exhibition, and a copy of the January 29, 1997 Vancouver Sun review of this show. Starting Bid: $7,000 CDN Estimate: $7,000 ~ $9,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

JUNE 2009 ONLINE SALE CATALOGUE Page: 10 of 11 411 GORDON APPELBE SMITH BCSFA CGP CPE OC RCA 1919 - Canadian Winter oil on canvas

signed and on verso titled and inscribed "W.A. Picture Loan" 24 x 30 inches 61 x 76.2 centimeters

Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Exhibited: Literature: The late 1950s and early 1960s were a time of solid accomplishment for Gordon Smith. In 1959 he won the Baxter Prize from the Ontario Society of Artists, and in 1960 he was chosen to represent Canada at the Sao Paulo Bienal. Also in this eventful year, a Canada Council fellowship enabled him to take a sabbatical from his teaching at the University of British Columbia to paint and travel to New York, England and Europe. No matter what degree of abstraction is present in Smith’s work, landscape is the point of departure. In Winter, Smith paints an abstracted urban scene with a strip of buildings on the horizon, and planes of blue for the sky and water. Buildings are suggested by outlines of fluid black lines. The colours of the buildings seep down as if they are reflections in the ocean into softly modulated planes of colour, which are predominantly blue and grey. Smith contrasts the more intense colours of the structures against the subtle and reflective atmospheres of sky and water in this lyrical work, evocatively departing from a specific locality into abstraction to emphasize colour, mood and light. Starting Bid: $6,000 CDN Estimate: $6,000 ~ $8,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

412 TAKAO TANABE 1926 - Canadian The Prairie acrylic on canvas

signed and on verso signed, titled and dated 1975 16 x 26 inches 40.6 x 66 centimeters

Provenance: Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited: Literature: Ian M. Thom et al, Takao Tanabe, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2005, essay by Nancy Tousley, page 79 Takao Tanabe began painting the prairie landscape in the early 1970s, in a departure from his abstract work of the 1960s. In 1972, he drove across the prairies from Winnipeg to Banff, where, in 1973 he became Head of the Art Program and Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre. He was keenly aware of the extraordinary light and big skies of the prairies, and particularly liked the flat, open landscape that was about 30 miles from his studio. A series of works, The Prairie Paintings, ensued, refined and thinly painted, using a technique that had the characteristics of Japanese sumi-e. He painted on unprimed canvas, and perfected an even application of colour that did not show brush-strokes. Tanabe reduced and simplified these landscapes to, as he stated, “look more naturalistic, more realistic, without being too realistic, and without being caught up in all the details of this and that.” The Prairie is a refined example of this series, illuminated by rays of light that strike the green fields at the horizon. Starting Bid: $3,500 CDN Estimate: $4,000 ~ $5,000 CDN Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

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