ONLINE AUCTION | November. 8 12:00pm - November. 18 12:00pm

FALL 2024 FINE ART AUCTION

Buyer's Premium: 

22% (2% discount on buyer's premium for payments by cash, debit, bank draft or certified cheque)

Gardner Galleries is now in preparation for the fall session of important Canadian & international artwork, and have started accepting quality consignments. Please contact James Gardner (james@gardnergalleries.com or 519-439-3333), who is an accredited appraiser with the Canadian Association of Personal Property Appraisers specializing in Canadian fine art, for consignment related inquiries. Photographs by email are sufficient for valuation purposes.

Current highlights include a 30.5 x 38.1cm (12 x 15in) oil on board by Group of Seven member A.J. Casson, two major works by John Seerey-Lester, oil paintings by Joachim Gauthier, Edith Coombs, James Hergel, Hortense Gordon, Brian Jones, Edward Glen, Conrad Furey, Walter Gaudek, Floyd Kuptana, Dick Ferrier, Ross Huggins, Ronald Jackson, Andrew Plum, William Jaybez Muckley, Herb Ariss, Terry Tomalty, Hermanus Koekoek The Younger, Ralph Gagnon, Leonardo M. Nierman, etc.; an important 1885 watercolour by Laura Muntz Lyall, Paul-Vanier Beaulieu, Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald drawing, prints by Yoshida Hiroshi, James Audubon, William Kurelek, a major bronze sculpture after Auguste Rodin & more. This page will be updated regularly from now until the consignment deadline of Friday, October 18th.

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3801

ALFRED JOSEPH (A.J.) CASSON

Titled "Rock Study, Espanola", signed lower right, signed verso and dated 1962, oil on board, 30.5 x 38.1cm (12 x 15in); Provenance: Roberts Gallery, Toronto; Victoria Art Gallery, Toronto (1988 re

Starting Bid: $10000
3802

HIROSHI YOSHIDA

Original antique woodblock print in colours, "Rapids (Keiryu)", signed and titled to the lower margin, also signed and with the artist's two red seals lower left and imprinted script to the left ma

Starting Bid: $1000
3803

JAMES HERGEL

Titled "The Lookout Rock, Algoma", signed lower left, acrylic on artist board, 63.8 x 78.7cm (25 1/8 x 31in); Provenance: East Queen Gallery, Toronto, original price $6500.00; artist's stamp verso;

Starting Bid: $500
3804

JOHN SEEREY-LESTER

Titled "Cliff Hanger - Bobcat", signed lower right and dated (19)87, oil on canvas, 91.4cm x 1.22m (36 x 48in); housed in a costly custom frame, outside dimensions 1.17 x 1.47m (46 x 58in); Provena

Starting Bid: $10000
3805

JOHN SEEREY-LESTER

Titled "Night Moves - African Elephants", signed lower right and dated (19)88, oil on canvas, 54.6 x 67.3cm (21 1/2 x 26 1/2in); housed in a costly custom frame and framed to match the preceding lo

Starting Bid: $5000
3806

HENRY JOHN YEEND KING

"Untitled: English Rural Landscape with Figures and a Thatched Roof Cottage", signed lower right, oil on canvas, 24.8 x 40cm (9 3/4 x 15 3/4in) - Henry John Yeend King, British, 1855-1924

Starting Bid: $300
3807

CONRAD FUREY

Titled "Eclipse", no signature evident, oil on canvas circa 1980-1990, 40.6 x 50.8cm (16 x 20in); titled on the engraved nameplate; Provenance: private collection, Fonthill, Ontario; Conr

Starting Bid: $300
3808

JOACHIM GAUTHIER

Titled verso "Old Polish Farm, Purdy Lake, Combermere", signed lower left, dated 1968 verso, oil on board, 30.5 x 38.1cm (12 x 15in); Provenance: from a physician's private collection, Ontario; Joa

Starting Bid: $500
3809

MONUMENTAL 1912 POST-IMPRESSIONIST OIL

A large scale oil on canvas measuring 1.2 x 1.4m (47 1/4 x 55 1/4in), signed indistinctly lower left and dated 1912; the artist depicts an eerie street scene at dusk, with a moonlit tree's shadow r

Starting Bid: $300
3810

FLOYD KUPTANA

"Untitled: Multi-Colour Scene with Wolf, Fish and Igloo", signed upper right, acrylic on canvas, 58.4 x 38.1cm (23 x 15in); the canvas is mounted to a wood stretcher but unframed; Provena

Starting Bid: $500
3811

BRIAN JONES

Titled verso "Garden Facade", signed lower right and verso, oil on masonite board, 60.3 x 81.3cm (23 3/4 x 32in); Provenance: Harris Galleries Inc., London; Brian Jones was a Canadian art

Starting Bid: $300
3812

SALVADOR DALI

"The 4th Level: Accidia (La quatrieme corniche: Accidia; 1951-64)", from Dali's "Divine Comedy - Purgatory 18", pencil signed lower left, engraving print in colours, sight

Starting Bid: $100
3813

WALTER GAUDNEK

"Untitled: Abstract", signed lower left, oil on canvas, 35.6 x 50.8cm (14 x 20in); Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY; present private collection, London; Walter Gaudnek, Cz

Starting Bid: $100
3814

CHARLES E. HANNAFORD

"Untitled: Seascape View at Sunset", signed lower left, watercolour on paper, sight 27.9 x 45.7cm (11 x 18in); Charles E.

Starting Bid: $100
3815

JOSEPH FAFARD

Titled "Albert", pencil signed and dated 1988 to the lower margin, Lithograph in colors/wove paper editioned 35/100, image size 50.8 x 40.6cm (20 x 16in); Joseph Fafard, Canadian, 1942-20

Starting Bid: $100
3816

PAUL VESHEV

Titled "On the Grass", signed, titled and dated 1992 to the lower margin, mixed media on paper, 22.5 x 33cm (8 7/8 x 13in); Provenance: Edward Day Gallery, Kingston, original price $480.0

Starting Bid: $100
3817

ALFRED WALTER BAYS

Titled to the frame "The Haunted House", signed with initials lower left, oil on canvas, 40.6 s 30.5cm (16 x 12in); housed in an exquisite antique gilt frame, outside dimensions 67.3 x 57.2cm (26 1

Starting Bid: $300
3818

PITSEOLAK ASHOONA

Titled "Woman and Bird with Berries", signed, titled and dated 1974 to the lower margin, also signed in syllabics and with stamp upper right, stone cut print on paper editioned 10/50, sig

Starting Bid: $100
3819

ROMAN LOPEZ

A pair of original oil paintings on board depicting colourful scenes, signed lower left, one dated (19)86, each measure 40 x 50.2cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4in); unframed; Roman Lopez, 20th century Mexican

Starting Bid: $100
3820

19TH CENTURY BRITISH SCHOOL OIL

"Untitled: Rural Landscape on a Cloudy Day with Farmers Ploughing", no signature evident, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 80cm (20 x 31 1/2in); housed in a custom antique frame, outside dimensions

Starting Bid: $500
3821

EDWARD GLEN

Titled "Port of Algiers, North of Africa", signed lower left, dated 1928 verso, oil on panel, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in); Edward Randolph Glen, Canadian, 1887-1963

Starting Bid: $100
3822

JIANG BIBO

Titled "Strange World", pencil signed to the lower right margin and dated 1986, woodcut print on paper editioned 50/60, image size 34.9 x 45.1cm (13 3/4 x 17 3/4in); Jiang Bibo, Chinese,

Starting Bid: $100
3823

RAY A. STORBERG

Titled verso "Mid-Winter, Near Georgian Bay", signed lower right, oil on panel, 25.4 x 30.5cm (10 x 12in) - Ray A. Storberg, Canadian, 1908-1971

Starting Bid: $100
3824

BRUCE A. FRANK

Titled verso "River of No Return, Yellowstone River at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming", signed lower right and dated 2001, oil on canvas, 61 x 91.4cm (24 x 36in); Provenance: private collection

Starting Bid: $100
3825

TOM STONE

"Untitled: River Scene in Autumn", signed lower left, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in); professionally framed and matted at Brownstone Framing, Guelph; Thomas (Tom) Albert Stone, C

Starting Bid: $100
3826

E. NANCY STEVENS

Titled "Winter Sun", signed lower right, dated 1985 verso, acrylic on board, sight 58.4cm (23in) square; Provenance: Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto; Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Onta

Starting Bid: $500
3827

HELEN SANDERSON SEWELL

"Untitled: Northern Lake Scene", original oil on board, 22.9 x 29.8cm (9 x 11 3/4in); Provenance: private London collection, acquired by a direct descendant of the artist; Helen Sanderson Sewell, C

Starting Bid: $100
3828

ROY AUSTIN

Titled verso "Woolwich 43", signed lower right and verso, oil on canvas board, 35.6 x 45.7cm (14 x 18in) - Roy Austin, Canadian, 1910-1997; born in England and moving to Canada at one year of age,

Starting Bid: $100
3829

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

An original hand-coloured chromolithograph titled "White Headed Pigeon", Plate 280, No.

Starting Bid: $500
3830

RICKY SCHAEDE

Titled "Capacity for Love", signed lower left and dated 2015, acrylic on canvas, 96.5 x 61cm (38 x 24in); note the canvas is on a wood stretcher but unframed; gallery label verso with ori

Starting Bid: $100
3831

ROBERT JAMES CALLAGHAN

Titled "Alleyview Morning", signed lower left, also signed and dated (19)84 verso, oil on masonite, 30.5 x 50.8cm (12 x 20in); Provenance: this and the following lot are from the same Tor

Starting Bid: $100
3832

ROBERT JAMES CALLAGHAN

Titled "October Snow, Wardell Street (Toronto)", signed lower right, also signed and dated (19)83 verso, oil on masonite, 30.5 x 50.8cm (12 x 20in); framed to match the preceding lot; Rob

Starting Bid: $100
3833

LAURA MUNTZ LYALL

"Untitled: Young Girl Reading to Her Grandmother", signed lower right and dated 1885, watercolour on paper, sight 68.6 x 49.5cm (27 x 19 1/2in); Provenance: Waddingtons, Toronto; present

Starting Bid: $1000
3834

EDITH COOMBS

Titled verso "In the Bay", signed lower right and verso, oil on board, 50.8 x 61cm (20 x 24in) - Edith Grace Lawson Coombs, Canadian, 1890-1986; born in Hamilton, Ontario, she eventually

Starting Bid: $100
3835

DICK FERRIER

Titled "Evening Bark Lake", signed lower right and dated (19)78, oil on masonite board, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in); Provenance: Smith Galleries, Winnipeg; Richard (Dick) Ferrier, Canadian,

Starting Bid: $100
3836

AUGUSTO ESCOBEDO

A large scale abstract figural bronze sculpture on marble plinth (one corner chipped), overall height 47cm (18 1/2in); weight 36 lbs; Augusto Ortega Escobedo, Mexican/American, 1914-1995

Starting Bid: $300
3837

ROSS HUGGINS

Titled "St.

Starting Bid: $100
3838

ROSS HUGGINS

Titled "Late February Afternoon, Martintown, Ontario", signed lower right, also signed and dated 1980 verso, oil on board, 35.6 x 60.3cm (14 x 23 3/4in) - Ross Huggins, Canadian, 1916-199

Starting Bid: $100
3839

BRUCE STEINHOFF

Titled "Autumn Woods", oil on board, 22.9 x 27.9cm (9 x 11in); Provenance: The Fine Art Galleries, T. Eaton Co.

Starting Bid: $300
3840

YOSHITOSHI MORI

Original woodcut in colours depicting two workers dyeing fabric, pencil signed and dated (19)73 to the lower margin, editioned 42/70, sight 40.6 x 29.2cm (16 x 11 1/2in); professionally framed by K

Starting Bid: $100
3841

TED COLYER

Titled "End of Autumn", pencil signed and dated (19)81 to the lower margin, woodcut in colours editioned 3/100, image size diameter 41.9cm (16 1/2in); professionally framed by Kato of Jap

Starting Bid: $100
3842

WILLIAM KURELEK

Titled "First Snowfall", also known as "Catching Snowflakes, First Snowfall", pencil signed to the lower right margin, lithograph in colours circa 1974 editioned 53/300, sight 3

Starting Bid: $300
3843

RONALD JACKSON

Titled "Klanklut Bay, Northeast of Juneau", signed lower right, also signed verso with inventory number 2860, oil on board, 40.6 x 50.8cm (16 x 20in); Provenance: acquired directly from t

Starting Bid: $300
3844

TONI ONLEY

Titled "Franklin's Last Winter Camp", artist signed to the lower right margin, silkscreen in colours editioned 16/35, sight 30.5 x 41.3cm (12 x 16 1/4in); Provenance: Kenneth G.

Starting Bid: $100
3845

IMPORTANT ANDREW PLUM ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

A large scale acrylic on canvas titled verso "Printemps a Paris", signed lower left, also signed and dated 2010 verso, 1.02 x 1.27m (40 x 50in); note the canvas is affixed to a wood stret

Starting Bid: $500
3846

TRUDY DOYLE

Titled "Old Boathouse", signed lower right and verso, oil on masonite, 27.9 x 35.6cm (11 x 14in); artist biography verso; Provenance: Doyle's Art Gallery, Seely's Bay, Ontario, original 1984 receip

Starting Bid: $100
3847

TERRY TOMALTY

"Untitled: Quebec Country Road After Snowfall", signed lower left and dated (19)86, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in); artist inventory number verso T-1443; Terry Tomalty, Canadian,

Starting Bid: $100
3848

PAUL-VANIER BEAULIEU

Titled "Nature Morte au Vase a Fleurs", signed lower right and dated (19)57, watercolour on paper, sight 30.5 x 48.3cm (12 x 19in); Provenance: Galerie D'Art Michel Bigue, Saint-Sauv

Starting Bid: $200
3849

ALOIS ARNEGGER

Stunning oil on canvas depicting the Rax mountain range in Austria, signed lower left, 61 x 91.4cm (24 x 36in); Provenance: Waddingtons, Toronto; present Ontario private collection; Alois Arnegger,

Starting Bid: $300
3850

ROBERT MALCOLM LLOYD

Titled "A Breezy Day at Littlehampton" and signed lower right, watercolour on paper, sight 17.8 x 48.3cm (7 x 19in) - Robert Malcolm Lloyd, English, 1859-1907; a 19th century marine paint

Starting Bid: $100
3851

JOHN BRINE

Titled "The Thames at Hammersmith", signed lower left, oil on board, 22.9 x 40.6cm (9 x 16in); old gallery label verso; John Brine, British, 1920-1997; a well-known 20th century painter w

Starting Bid: $200
3852

BRUCE LE DAIN

Titled "Spring in Sargent Bay, Lake Memphremagog, Que.", signed lower left, also signed and dated 1977 verso, oil on masonite, 60.3 x 45.1cm (23 3/4 x 17 3/4in); Provenance: this and the

Starting Bid: $100
3853

BRUCE LE DAIN

Titled "Spring at Joachim, Que.", signed lower right, also signed and dated 1976 verso, oil on masonite, 35.6 x 50.8cm (14 x 20in) - Bruce Le Dain, Canadian, 1928-2000

Starting Bid: $100
3854

MAX WRIGHT

Titled "Oblivion 3", signed verso and dated 2005, mixed media with collage on board, 61 x 76.2cm (24 x 30in); Provenance: Canvas Gallery, Toronto, original price $900.00; present London c

Starting Bid: $100
3855

LANGLEY DONGES

Titled "Summer, Haliburton", signed lower right, oil on canvas board, 25.4 x 30.5cm (10 x 12in) - Langley Donges, Canadian, 1901-1992; a 20th century Toronto artist, Donges studied at the Ontario C

Starting Bid: $100
3856

JAN LE WITT

"Untitled: Abstract Study in Three Colours", signed lower left, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 38.1cm (12 x 15in) - Jan (Abraham) Le Witt, a Polish-born British abstract artist, graphic designer a

Starting Bid: $100
3857

AUGUSTE RODIN

An important large size bronze sculpture after August Rodin's "Bust of the Bronze Age", measuring 53cm (20 7/8in) high, width approximately 54.6cm (21 1/2in); posthumous bronze cast

Starting Bid: $10000
3858

WILLIAM JAYBEZ MUCKLEY

A lovely 19th century oil on canvas "Message to the Court", signed lower middle left and dated 1869, 73.7 x 61cm (29 x 24in); displayed in an exceptional period frame and believed to be original to

Starting Bid: $500
3859

HORTENSE GORDON

"Untitled: Abstract Study", signed lower left, oil on splitwood panel, 21 x 28.6cm (8 1/4 x 11 1/4in), mounted to a rustic 33 x 40.6cm (13 x 16in) frame; Provenance: private collection, C

Starting Bid: $500
3860

TONY URQUHART

"Untitled: Abstract Study", signed and dated (19)61 lower right, ink drawing on paper, sight 9.5 x 14cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/2in); Provenance: from the collection of John H.

Starting Bid: $100
3861

18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OIL

Believed to be English circa mid-1700's depicting a man of nobility, possibly a portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766, nicknamed "The Old Pretender"), appears unsigned,

Starting Bid: $100
3862

LIONEL LEMOINE FITZGERALD

Titled "Nude Study", signed with initials lower right, coloured pencil on paper, sight 55.2 x 40cm (21 3/4 x 15 3/4in); Provenance: from the collection of Edward Fitzgerald, son of the artist; Blai

Starting Bid: $100
3863

NICHOLAS BERTELSEN

"Untitled: Figural Abstract in Homage of Jean-Michel Basquiat", large mixed media on canvas measuring 1.22m x 76.2cm (48 x 30in); note the canvas is affixed to a wood stretcher but unfram

Starting Bid: $100
3864

HERMANUS KOEKOEK THE YOUNGER

Titled verso "On the Yssel (IJssel), Holland", signed "J.

Starting Bid: $1000
3865

AMERICAN SCHOOL

"Untitled: At Coney Island, New York", no signature evident, oil on board, 43.8 x 64.1cm (17 1/4 x 25 1/4in); from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Coney Islan

Starting Bid: $500
3866

HERB ARISS

Titled verso "Bismark and the Rise of Germany (Modern Legend Series)", signed and dated (19)73 lower right, charcoal with gouache highlights on paper, sight 61 x 94cm (24 x 37in); profess

Starting Bid: $100
3867

KARL KAUFMANN

"Untitled: View of Venice from the Shoreline", signed "C.V.

Starting Bid: $1000
3868

RALPH GAGNON

Large abstract oil on canvas, signed/dated 1959 and inscribed "Boston" lower right, also signed/titled and dated verso, canvas dimensions 1.14 x 1.07m (45 x 42in); Provenance: this and the followin

Starting Bid: $1000
3869

RALPH GAGNON

"Untitled: Green Abstract", unsigned, a large scale oil on canvas circa 1960 measuring 86.4cm x 1.14m (34 x 45in); note the canvas is affixed to a wood stretcher but unframed; some paint

Starting Bid: $500
3870

NORMAN R. BROWN

Titled "Morning Clouds", signed verso, oil on board, 40.6cm (16in) square; artist's studio label verso; Norman Richard Brown, Canadian, born 1958

Starting Bid: $100
3871

EXCEPTIONAL 19TH CENTURY OIL

Painted circa early 1800's in the school of Sir David Wilkie (Scottish, 1785-1843) depicting a tavern interior scene with British soldier attempting to recruit various men gathered around a table,

Starting Bid: $1000
3872

CLARENCE LOOMIS

Titled verso "Forest Stream", signed upper left and dated (19)47, oil on masonite, 61 x 76.2cm (24 x 30in) - Clarence Ainslie Loomis, a 20th century Canadian artist, 1917-1994; his works seldom app

Starting Bid: $100
3873

19TH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL

"Untitled: Beach Scene at Trouville, France", no signature evident, oil on panel, 20.3 x 40.6cm (8 x 16in) - an attractive work likely painted en plein air, and much in the style of Herma

Starting Bid: $100
3874

BRUCE LE DAIN

Titled "Eventide, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, Alberta", signed lower left middle, also signed and dated 1980 verso, oil on masonite, 30.5 x 45.7cm (12 x 18in); Provenance: Walter Klinkhoff Ga

Starting Bid: $100
3875

LEONARDO M. NIERMAN

Titled verso "Cosmic Wind", signed lower right, oil on board, 99.7 x 80cm (39 1/4 x 31 1/2in); also included with this lot is a gallery brochure from Nierman's 1973/1974 exhibition a

Starting Bid: $1000
3876

LEONARDO M. NIERMAN

Titled verso "Prisms", signed lower left, oil on board, 80 x 60.3cm (31 1/2 x 23 3/4in); Provenance: Merrill Chase Galleries, Chicago; from the same collection as the preceding lot; Leona

Starting Bid: $500