James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924). En pleine mer, 1903-04. Oil on canvas. 15 x 23 in (38.1 x 58.4 cm). SOLD. - “Whistler’s dead - Let’s get drunk”, said Morrice, as he burst into Edmond Dyonnet’s studio in Montreal, on a July day in 1903 (as told to D.W. Buchanan, who...

Our most recent acquisition is Arthur Lismer's painting, Lake O’Hara, Canadian Rockies, 1928. For purposes of composition, in order to capture the majesty of the peaks set against the sky, Lismer eliminated all but a sliver of the lake itself. Arthur Lismer himself contributed simply the title “Lake O’Hara, Canadian...

A unique, maritime-themed collection, for sale at Alan Klinkhofff Gallery

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...

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...