Paul Vanier Beaulieu was a Montreal native who spent the post-World War II years painting in Paris and rubbing shoulders with such luminaries as Picasso and master printer Georges Leblanc. His work was celebrated by his contemporaries, but as part of the European art movement he hasn’t had the recognition...

Paul Vanier Beaulieu's career as a young painter took shape at a time when a dynamic current of revitalization was sweeping Quebec's cultural scene. The movement ultimately fostered the advent of modernity in art owing to the initiatives of its main proponents: John Lyman, Alfred Pellan and Paul-Émile Borduas.

In appreciation of the painterly virtues of Après la tempête, it must be said that this pochade demonstrates Clarence Gagnon at the height of his artistic powers.

Paul Vanier Beaulieu is an important artist who for several years now we have been preparing to celebrate with a non-selling, loan exhibition. Although our gallery's professional appreciation of his work developed well after the artist had cemented fine professional art dealing relations with colleagues, the context of his paintings...

When Suzor-Coté returned to Arthabaska in June of 1894 after three years of art study in Paris it was clear that he was doing so as an artist truly accomplished in his field. In fact it is noteworthy that he was honoured with the acceptance of work to exhibit at...

I cannot recall an auction season when two salesrooms were unable to sell their catalogue cover picture! Certainly, an overview of the results of four auction sales of Canadian art held in May and June shows rather lackluster prices with some obvious exceptions that, although limited in number, were the...

On Saturday, August 1 Galerie Walter Klinkhoff will be hosting the latest in our series of Important Canadian Art sales. The exhibition will feature excellent paintings by important Canadian artists A.Y. Jackson , Randolph Hewton , Anne Savage , Frederick Hutchison , John Little , René Richard , John Fox...

Literature: The Art of Fred Ross, A Timeless Humanism by Tom Smart , published by Goose Lane Editions, 1993, illustrated on page 63. Highlight Fred Ross ' ''The Yellow Dress'' (reproduced in Tom Smart's The Art of Fred Ross, A Timeless Humanism, 1993 on pg. 63) is a painting of...

For all the estimable artistic talent that might have made him famous anywhere in the world, Fred Ross has held a deep connection to Saint John and its people. At 82, the work is still coming strong, and his love and admiration of the place, its people and a glass...

One Tuesday, June 2nd, Fred Ross was given the Order of New Brunswick. Fred Ross’ 'magnificent and mammoth new painting' ‘The Lady in Black’, recently purchased from Galerie Walter Klinkhoff by the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton was formally unveiled at a gala held at the Saint John Convention Center attended...

Having just returned from attending three auction sales held over a period of less than one week when two of the three houses left their catalogue cover paintings unsold and the third, although not the cover picture, the lot anticipated to be the most costly offering, did not meet its...

The Duck Pond encapsulates Emily Coonan’s remarkable skill at conveying the essence of her chosen subject through a distilled and distinctive visual vocabulary. Stemming from the epoch of her professional debut, and possibly exhibited in the 1910 Spring Exhibition at the Art Association of Montreal, it is a small, spontaneously...

Overwhelming enthusiasm for an outstanding selection of new paintings by Quebec City-based artist Claude A. Simard , R.C.A. resulted in a remarkable sell-out show. Simard’s paintings were essentially of five different themes: The garden, migrations, interior scenes, travel, and the winter. In an uncertain economic climate, the quality of available...

Claude A. Simard Galerie Walter Klinkhoff would like to remind you that our exhibition and sale of paintings by Claude Simard begins Monday, May 11. You are cordially invited to the vernissage which takes place at 7:30pm. The exhibition can be previewed here. The paintings are available for purchase prior...

Cornelius Krieghoff developed into the finest artist describing Quebec life of the mid 19th Century. Born in Holland in 1815, spending part of his youth in Bavaria, he sailed for North America in 1837 arriving in the United States where he joined the army.

Souren Melikian, in The International Herald Tribune of March 20 2009, reported on the 239 art dealer supported Maastricht art fair, one which focuses primarily on Old Master pictures ... ''Business is blooming against all odds in the art market when the rest of the world economy shrinks. As the...

Included in this exhibition will be an outstanding painting by Cornelius Krieghoff , 'Ste. Anne River, Early Winter, Quebec North Shore' ca. 1863. This painting, discovered in a private collection in England, has a sister painting in the Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the generous donation of the late...

The application of this concept to unique works of art, paintings for instance, is self-evident and popularly accepted. When applied to works of art done in multiples, that is prints, photographs and sculpture for instance, 'authenticity' is more ambiguous. The fundamental issues are quality of supply and quantity of supply.

This most handsome and important Fortin stylistically is of around 1924, years when the master painted these noble and imposing trees which are among the most representative of Fortin’s entire oeuvre.

This painting, Golden Autumn, Sillery from 1931, serves to honour both the 110th anniversary of the birth of Robert W. Pilot who at age 54 was to become President of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and Pilot’s admiration for the City of Quebec, this year celebrating the 400th...