We have just paid to the former owner of the most handsome Albert H. Robinson painting illustrated on this newsletter what we believe is the highest price a collector has received for an oil sketch by Robinson. One traditionally would not expect a re-seller to brag about a purchase at...

Even the most casual admirer of William Kurelek paintings will have noticed his sensitivity to and understanding of 'issues' endured, and maybe even plaguing the various and numerous cultural groups of Canadians he met when he painted in different parts of the country.

Morrice loved to paint the beaches of the world. Before 1900, he used these beaches mostly as backdrops for various human activities: gathering oysters or kelp, drying sheets; more rarely for bathers specifically or people at leisure.

Of the Beaver Hall Group women who maintained their friendship for the better part of 30 years, [Sarah Robertson] was conceivably the least prolific, making fine paintings by her especially rare and precious for Beaver Hall Group collectors.

On May 20, 1964, just before departing for her summer retreat at Strawberry Hill, Nora Collyer wrote to Walter Klinkhoff: 'This is just to thank you for having the exhibition of my paintings, and to acknowledge the cheque for $683...'. The Nora Collyer exhibition at Klinkhoff ran from April 20...

It has been for us an exciting and gratifying fall season. We began with our 36th annual non-selling exhibition, this one a tribute to Paul Vanier Beaulieu , an important modern artist, active primarily from the end of World War II until his passing. This display of especially fine paintings,...

Frank Hennessey is an important , yet underrated artist of the Ottawa region of his generation. A full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts where he showed regularly in the RCA exhibitions at the Art Association of Montreal and The Art Gallery of Toronto , a member...

This intimate and intense watercolour offers a missing link for our understanding of how Emily Carr developed her imagery of First Nations culture. In 1993, when I compiled my catalogue of all her paintings and drawings of First Nations villages, I listed the sketch of this subject as ‘lost.’ I...

In a showing of enthusiasm that recalled the time when gallery vernissages brought hours-long line-ups and even the occasional shoving match, buyers, friends and supporters crammed into Galerie Walter Klinkhoff on Monday night to attend Laurie Campbell's inaugural exhibition and sale .

Late in the summer of 2009, while in the ancient imperial city of Fès, Morocco, I stood in a carpet shop staring at the dozens of Berber and Rabat carpets stacked and hanging all around me. I had gone to Morocco with the hope of bringing home a good quality,...

In Paris, Borduas was living in his studio where he had a mattress on the floor in the corner. He painted at that time enormous black and white abstractions and occasionally some of more manageable dimensions, which I bought. Obviously hard up for money, Borduas never tried to sell and...

From November 16 through 28, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff is pleased to be hosting an exhibition and sale of recent works by the newest addition to our line-up of contemporary Canadian artists, Laurie Cambell . The exhibition features an impressive selection of thought provoking and atmospheric oil paintings of Montreal, selected...

We are delighted and proud to be hosting our first solo exhibition for Laurie Campbell who we have known for several years but only recently begun showing her paintings. Although Laurie's painting place is a familiar one which has inspired any number of predecessors and contemporaries one must acknowledge that...

Percy Woodcock was one of the accomplished Canadian artists that Sir William Van Horne (called “the greatest of all Canada’s art collectors” (1)) engaged, offering complimentary transportation and some expenses. Van Horne 'inaugurated an unusual promotional scheme when he decided that the Canadian Pacific should scatter paintings of the Rockies...

From October 26 to November 7, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff is pleased to be hosting an exhibition and sale of recent works by the exciting contemporary Canadian artist Danielle Lanteigne . The exhibition features a dazzling and powerful series of colourful acrylic paintings, selected from the artist's studio. Danielle Lanteigne was...

Those of you who have read Reminiscences of an Art Dealer, published by my father in 1993, will recall his enthusiasm for the painterly ability of Sam Borenstein and his frustration at not being able to sell them as he would have wished, especially in his early days and at...

On September 26 our Paul Vanier Beaulieu retrospective ended after an exceptional two weeks. Almost 1500 people took advantage of this unique opportunity to see 40 privately held masterworks by this underestimated artist. Bolstered by positive reviews in La Presse , The Westmount Examiner , The Westmount Independent and The...

Klinkhoff Gallery retrospective BERNARD MENDELMAN THE SUBURBAN September, 2009 The work of Paul Vanier Beaulieu is on exhibit until Sept. 26 at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff on Sherbrooke Street W. With the show, the gallery continues its long tradition of holding an annual after-Labour Day retrospective for a major Canadian artist....

Whereas a commissioned portrait would imply certain restraints or inhibitions, insofar as Millette would have had neither the financial ability nor interest to commission her and more likely posed for her at the expense of the artist, Lilias Newton has accomplished for her own account a composition capturing the psychology...

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...