ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
"Paintings by some of Canada's most venerated artists - among them Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Jean-Paul Lemieux and A.Y. Jackson - failed to find buyers Tuesday night at the Joyner Waddington's auction in Toronto."...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Paintings by William Kurelek and Tom Thomson exceeded expectations at Joyner Waddington's fall auction of important Canadian art. A large 1972 work by Kurelek, titled Balsam Avenue After Heavy Snowfall , showing the Toronto street where the Ukrainian-Canadian artist once lived, went for $241,400 – above the pre-sale estimate of $175,000 to $200,000. The auction continues today.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Paintings by some of Canada's most venerated artists – among them Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Jean-Paul Lemieux and A.Y. Jackson – failed to find buyers Tuesday night at the Joyner Waddington's auction in Toronto.Indeed, at press time, Joyner, one of the country's three largest fine-art auctioneers, was reporting the total value of its sale as just under $2-million, including premium – a considerable...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Six months ago, three tiny Tom Thomson sketches sold for over $1-million a piece. As the fall auction season kicks off, James Adams reports, there's a new million-dollar question out there
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... auction house held a second sale of fine Canadian art Wednesday evening, with works from Tom Thomson, A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr and Arthur Lismer. Carr's oil-on-canvas entitled ``Alert Bay Burial Ground" fetched $1.053 million.It was the third Emily Carr painting to ever go for more than $1 million.Thomson's oil on panel "Autumn Tapestry, went for $936,000. A smaller oil on panel from...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... sale, in association with Ritchies, also included works by Emily Carr, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Tom Thomson and Alex Colville and had an overall pre-sale estimate of $9.5 million to $13.5 million.Fall art sales earlier this month in the United States and London were hurt by sagging demand for high-end pieces.But Canada's arts community was in positive spirits after last week's Heffel auction...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
When Toronto's Ash Prakash bid $1.9-million on a Tom Thomson oil sketch last May, he did what he normally does after single-handedly boosting the value of a historic Canadian work - he tried to slip out the door.
