Extraordinarily, little Saint-Norbert Street made news in the mid 1970s when Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau's urbanization plans called for the demolition of the precise block of houses Ernst Neumann had painted fully 23 years earlier. In many ways, the debate in the mid 1970s was in line with much of...

While our Toronto and Montreal galleries are unable to host visitors during the current lockdown, we continue to facilitate purchases and sales of fine art.

Peintre au tempérament solitaire, Jean Paul Lemieux doit sa notoriété au nouveau langage pictural, épuré et minimaliste, qu’il développe à partir de 1956, au retour d’une année sabbatique en France à titre de boursier de la Société royale du Canada (1954- 1955). C’est alors qu’il prend la mesure de son...

À l’été 1958, l’Université de Colombie-Britannique à Vancouver invite Jean Paul Lemieux à diriger une classe de peinture (Summer School Session). Le peintre et professeur à l’École des beaux-arts de Québec depuis une vingtaine d’années, quitte la Vieille Capitale en juin 1958. Vingt-quatre de ses tableaux récents le suivront à...

On behalf of our family and team, I would like to extend to you our gratitude for your support during this challenging year.

This presentation offers a vetted selection of fine art of quality, from various private collectors in Canada, the USA, and owned by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery. The highlights depend only upon your taste and budget. While the range in prices is vast, the constant is that each is a work of...

The last seven months have introduced challenges, as well as opportunities, neither we nor others could have anticipated

We are proud to announce a selection of recent sales.

It almost seems laughable that a populist comedy festival would have not just one, but two, iconic artists twirling in the strands of its DNA, but such is indeed the case with the Montreal-based, worldwide-influential Just For Laughs. One was the late Vittorio Fiorucci, a mischievous, rabble-rousing goblin of a...

The A.Y. Jackson “Sugar Shanty” painted near his brother Harry’s farm at St. Aubert in Quebec’s L’Islet is a particularly fine composition of the 1940s.

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery presents Claude Le Sauteur & the World of Laughter , an exhibition dedicated to Claude Le Sauteur’s historic collaboration with the world-renowned Just For Laughs Festival.

A.Y. Jackson ends his memoirs, A Painter's Country, with his move away from the famous Studio Building that Lawren Harris had built for the use of his artist friends in Toronto. A.Y. built a comfortable little house on a hill at Manotick, a few miles south of Ottawa, close to...

Our intentions here are to offer our ideas as to areas of study we think pertinent to a larger study of Philip Surrey, optimistically by a team of trained art historians. Our contribution is a personal one, written from the perspective of one who was acquainted with Philip Surrey, visited...

Reopening is perhaps a misnomer. Throughout the past several weeks, while the doors were closed, the portal at Klinkhoff.ca has remained open 24/7. Due to the investments in our digital platform and the support Jonathan, Craig and I offer from our home offices, it has never been easier for you...

I never met LAWREN HARRIS. His wife Bess had taken charge of his business affairs although all his paintings had been incorporated in a trust for the benefit of his sons from his first wife.

On May 7, 1920, the first exhibition of the Group of Seven opened at the Art Museum of Toronto (today the Art Gallery of Ontario). On May 7, 2020 we will celebrate the centenary with a dedicated presentation including for sale an outstanding selection of more than 30 paintings by...

In 1947, Fred Taylor was living on Oxenden, a street renamed as Aylmer, located not a great distance from Inspector St. Taylor was of a social and political consciousness. It is significant that in this work, he highlights three tiers of society; the working citizens, the power and influence of...

The title could be Impression, Dufferin Terrace, a fleeting moment captured at sunset. The Terrace, Québec City's outdoor salon, overlooks the basse-ville and the St. Lawrence river, with Lévis across, and Ile d'Orléans to the left. Morrice... Read more.

These important works, represented herein, represent a mature evolution of Lismer’s focus beginning some time after his return from west Africa in 1935. It is due to the generosity of Mom and Dad that Helen and I have three Lismer canvases in our home.

Morrice spent his whole working life in Paris, travelling endlessly to find new subjects. Hundreds of drawings and small sketches on wooden panels tell us what he saw, but not how he got there....Read more.