Featuring works by Jean Paul Lemieux, Cornelius Krieghoff, Robert Pilot and others On Friday, September 28, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff will be opening an online exhibition of our latest releases of Important Canadian Art. This special exhibition and sale will be posted on klinkhoff.com at approximately 12pm, with select works on...

Summer saw heightened interest in post-war figurative, emphasis on historical validation Not that many years ago for us and likely for many of our colleagues as well, summer was traditionally a season spent planning and then waiting for clients to return in the fall. For a number of years back...

Did you see this written by Globe and Mail art writer James Adams describing the May 27, 2011 Joyner Waddington’s Canadian Art auction? “A hefty 35 per cent of its offerings - 89 lots - went unsold on Friday, and those that did sell more often than not went for...

Lawren Harris, 'North Shore, Lake Superior, Pic Island II', one of eight Lawren Harris landscapes offered in the Vancouver auction. Estimated at between $250,000-$350,000, it sold for a hammer price of $230,000.

Sam Borenstein's 'The Pink Bouquet', 13 August, 1960 was described by Walter Klinkhoff in his memoirs and was one of his more memorable and controversial sales. Over fifty years later we are pleased to offer it to a new generation of collectors.

Why it's worth the drive: This gallery is almost as iconic as the artists it represents. In business since 1950, it sells masterpieces from Group of Seven artists as well as Cornelius Krieghoff , Jean Paul Lemieux and Jean-Paul Riopelle .

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

First and foremost a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holiday Season to all of you. From three generations of Klinkhoffs active here in the Gallery plus our loyal and efficient support team including Johanne, Lynn & John, we thank you for your on going support and encouragement. In my...

A gallery founder’s sons pay homage to his memory, offering a rare, impressive look at Montreal’s past. BY DOROTA KOZINSKA - Special to the Gazette THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL Saturday, September 12, 1998 'Our todays and yesterdays are the blocks with which we build,' the poet Longfellow wrote. For Walter Klinkhoff,...

The story goes something like this: During a 1966 exhibition of his works, AY Jackson , the great Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven , who loved to talk about his work, stood next to one of his paintings surrounded by an adoring crowd, which was...

Montrealer Robertson deserved a better fate ANN DUNCAN - Gazette Art Critic THE GAZETTE Saturday, September 12, 1991 Montreal painter Sarah Robertson has all but fallen through the cracks of history. After all, it has been 40 years since she was accorder her only solo exhibition. Organized by the National...

Walter Klinkhoff, doyen of Montreal’s commercial art galleries, tells the story of a phone call from business tycoon E.P. Taylor: 'Can you remove the office portraits of my predecessors and replace them with good Canadian paintings? Nothing too expensive. I know horses and nothing about art, and you know everything...

Every year for almost two decades, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has organized an exhibition that earns its owners no money and costs thousands of dollars to mount. The tradition was began to develop interest in a Quebec painter who many otherwise have been overlooked. This year's exhibition, which continues until Sept....