Tag: Canadian Art

  • Rare Portrait by Landscape Painter Tom Thomson Up for Auction

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    Tom Thomson, Daydreaming

    TORONTO (For Immediate Release) – A rare 100-year-old portrait by Tom Thomson is going up for auction online.  Consignor Canadian Fine Art says Daydreaming is a portrait of artist Thoreau MacDonald, the son of Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald.  The auction house dates the work to sometime between 1913-1915, a few years before Thomson’s untimely death in 1917.  Consignor says “Daydreaming” represents a rare portrait by Thomson, who is best known for painting landscapes of northern Ontario. It estimates the work could fetch between $200,000 and $250,000.

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  • Questions To Consider When Valuing Your Artwork

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    Consignor regularly receives contact from clients, looking to receive guidance regarding the possible valuation of their artwork.  It is our pleasure to be of service in providing preliminary “verbal” auction estimates at no charge, based on the auction market for comparable works of art.  

    If you are interested in speaking with our specialists and engaging in this confidential and complimentary process, we recommend that you gather certain pertinent details regarding your artwork to assist our team in providing you with the highest (and most accurate) level of initial service.

    The following questions will help provide you with some direction through the preliminary steps in the valuation process with our firm.

     

    1. Who is the artist of your artwork?

    Examine the front and reverse sides of the artwork, looking for a signature from the artist and/or potentially a notation which might 

    be present on a gallery or exhibition label.  The identity of the artist is an important valuation factor for our specialists as it allows us 

    to compare the artwork directly with other works by the artist which have appeared at auction.

     

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  • Get to Know Lydia!

    IMG_2685As with most industry websites, the Consignor site includes a section which features our professional biographies, however we feel they can often miss some of the funny and interesting facts that really help you get to know someone.  We asked Lydia Abbott to complete the questionnaire below in order to provide some insight into her everyday life.

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  • How to Sign up for Mobile Notifications from Consignor

    outbidIn four easy steps, and less than one minute, you can learn how to sign up for mobile notifications at Consignor.ca.

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  • The Fall of the Gavel Replaced by the Tap of a Finger

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    I remember speaking with a prominent Canadian dealer who told me about about a client of his who had missed out on their dream Lawren Harris painting, some years earlier. The client now wanted to get their hands on a Tom Thomson they had been eyeing for a long time. The Thomson was spotted in an auction catalogue for a sale that was scheduled to take place a few weeks later, in a different Canadian city than the where the client and dealer were located. The dealer was scheduled to be on a cruise ship with his wife at the same time as the auction. Not wanting to disappoint the client, the dealer insisted that he could act over the phone as an absentee bidder, and all but promised the Thomson artwork to his client. Despite the very-modern ship, connected completely by wi-fi, the telephone situation was poor. Of the few phones that were available to the guests, most had long lines behind them. The dealer and the client missed out on the Tom Thomson painting that went for a steal at the live auction!