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The
top 10 Canadian
paintings
sold
at auction are :
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Landscape
painting sold for $ 825,000
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$
4,6 million: Paul Kane, Scene in
the Northwest - Portrait, sold Feb. 25, 2002
$
2,2 million:
Lawren Harris, Baffin Island, sold May 29,
2001
$ 1,6 million:
Jean-Paul Riopelle, untitled, sold May 05,
1989.
$ 1,3 million:
Jean-Paul Riopelle, Composition, sold June
27, 2002.
$ 960,000:
Lawren Harris, Lake Superior III, sold
June 1, 1999.
$ 925,000:
Emily Carr, War Canoes, Alert Bay, sold May
10, 2000.
$
798,000:
Jean-Paul Riopelle, untitled, sold Nov. 30,
1989.
$ 700,000: Jean-Paul
Riopelle, untitled, sold May 22, 1991.
$ 532,000: Jean-Paul
Riopelle, L'Autriche, sold June 29, 1989.
$ 525,000: Lawren
Harris, lake, North Labrador, sold May 24, 2000.
SOURCE:Made
in Canada: An Investor's Guide To The Canadian
Art Market, by Anthony R.Wesbridge
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A monumental northern landscape by Group of Seven
member Franklin Carmichael had never before been
offered for sale.
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Frood
Lake, Franklin Carmichael, 1939 |
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Painted
in 1939, Frood Lake had hung over
the artist's fireplace and stayed in the family
after the Carmichael's death in 1945. The price
of
$ 825, 000 was a new record for Carmichael (with
buyer's premium the price is $ 915,000)
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Lawren
Harris's
Snowfall sold for
$ 667,500
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Lawren
Harris's Snowfall, painted in 1920, was
sold for $ 667,500,
including the premium.
Snowfall,
Lawren Harris, 1920
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The top
10 Canadian paintings sold at auction are:
Landscape
painting sold for $ 825,000: Franklin
Carmichael's "Frood Lake",painted
in 1939, was hummered down for
$ 825, 000
$
4,6 million: Paul
Kane, Scene in the Northwest - Portrait, sold
Feb. 25, 2002
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