April 18 Auction Results

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A very strong auction with some amazing results. A sincere thank you to everyone who participated, both bidders and consignors. We sold 98% of the 341 lots offered and the average price was 209% over the low end of the estimate. There was considerable bidding - over 10,000 bids with as many as 550+ clients active on the website at one time.

The top price was our cover piece, Ivan Eyre's Field Drop which sold for $140,400 against a pre-sale estimate of $25,000/40,000.  Fortunately, that was not the only work attracting numerous bidders. Two AY Jacksons had lots of interest, Ile de la Cite, Paris Pont Neuf from 1912 being the top price at $46,800 and the second, Springtime, Buckingham Que. from 1963 sold for $32,175. And in the Group of Seven vein, Arthur Lismer's - Little Dead Pine, Georgian Bay from 1947 sold for $32,175 and a Franz Johnston - Sullen Sunset sold for $11,700 versus $4,000/6,000. A charming little J.E.H. MacDonald titled Thornhill House from 1923 sold for $29,250 against an estimate of $15,000/25,000.

World record prices at auction were set for Ted Godwin’s Autumn's Gold selling for $38,025 against an estimate of $15,000/25,000 and for an oil painting by Walter J. Phillips [one of only two oils to show up at auction] sold for $35,100 against an estimate of $20,000/30,000 - which was still a long way from the record $130k price for of one of his watercolours and $80k for a print. The Jonathan Forrest painting High Wire from 2004 also set a new auction record of $8,190 versus $4,000/6,000. On the international side Roy Lichtenstein's silkscreen Mirror #5 sold for $12,870 versus $4,000/6,000; Pablo Picasso etching Le Cocu Magnifique sold for $3,802 against $500/600 and Jack King’s painting Untitled - Brood Mares sold for $21,060 versus $9,000/2,000.

Our next auction opens soon and closes May 15.
After that, we have a benefit for the Whyte Museum in Banff opening early June and closing June 13.