Predictable auction results confirm the advantages of private sales One of our distinguished colleagues, Chris Varley, recently distributed summary of his observations regarding a trio of auction sales including many with which we agree. I would also choose add a few comments of my own: Essentially what we are seeing...

CANADIAN ART ON CONSIGNMENT: THE NUMBERS, THE QUALITY AND 'THE MYSTERY BOX' Our fixed price art gallery business is supply driven making the challenge that of securing a supply of very high quality works of art to advise our clients to purchase. Unlike art auction houses where, according to the...

The year 2010 has represented a particularly exciting year highlighted both by sales of numerous extraordinary works of art of great quality, and the strides we have made to improve our ability to communicate with our friends and clients, with a view in mind to serving their interests better and...

It was a busy week for sure, looking at countless good, very good works of art for sale at auction and a limited number of excellent and popular works as well. The press releases resonate successes with announcements of “aggregates” (the total value of their sales) including their buyer’s premium....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...