In 1924, Lawren Harris travelled for the first time to the Rocky Mountains and in August and September of that year sketched in and around Jasper Park, accompanied by A.Y. Jackson. The subject of this handsome canvas of a peaceful cabin scene set in the midst of a stretch of...

This lovely little pochade of Dufferin Terrace painted in late June 1910 is both a quintessential James Wilson Morrice and an extremely rare summer Quebec subject by him. Although he spent all his professional life in Paris, Morrice often joined his family in Montreal for Christmas. However, soon after the...

We continue to be convinced that in most cases selling outstanding works of art by private treaty sales, that is with a fine art dealer gallery, you can minimize or even eliminate your financial risk. Just reviewing the results of three important auction sales that have taken place within the...

Rarely have we seen the quality of buyer enthusiasm voraciously responding to purchase opportunities of trophy-quality paintings as we have seen leading up to summer. We have been aggressively pursuing owners and potential sellers of genuinely outstanding works of art, offering to buy outright for resale or to sell on...

For over 60 years, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has specialized in the purchase and sale of fine art by important Canadian artists, including the following selection. To see a complete index, click here .

Finest work by the iconic impressionist currently on the market This jewel-like painting serves as testimony to Maurice Cullen 's admiration for the style of the French Impressionists whose painting he had studied while in France for the greater part from the end of 1888 until the early summer of...

Untitled - The Child 1945 is an outstanding, rare and important early canvas by Léon Bellefleur . We know that at this time Bellefleur was a regular visitor to the studio of Alfred Pellan , recently returned from France, and he was particularly enthralled by the fantastical quality of Pellan's...

Galerie Walter Klinkhoff will offer an exclusive sneak preview of our April 23 Exhibition & Sale of Important Canadian Art to Twitter followers tomorrow. Go to Twitter and follow klinkhoff_com for access to this exclusive preview! We also encourage you to follow us on Facebook , where we post other...

Canadian art is a relatively small but expanding field. New or experienced, buyers today are confronted with artwork in an great range of styles, sizes, colour and media from which to select. At this point, I think we are well served to distinguish between the two general market-types that exist...

Important paintings by Pegi Nicol MacLeod , Léon Bellefleur , A.J. Casson for sale Galerie Walter Klinkhoff announces our upcoming exhibition and sale of Important Canadian Art to take place on April 23. We are aggressively looking to include additional important works of art to either consign to us for...

I recently received the following email from Eric Klinkhoff, a director of Galerie Walter Kinkhoff : 'I am attaching a photograph of a painting John Little just completed. John turned 82 on February 20 and in my opinion this is the best work that he has done in several years....

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 .