Author: Cowley Abbott

  • Tonight! 🎉 It is finally time for our two-session Live Auction of Important Canadian Art!

    The Cowley Abbott team could not be more excited to present these artworks for sale this evening @globeandmailcentre. It has been a privilege to handle these works of art and share them with collectors, clients and art lovers.

    Join us tonight in-person at Toronto’s Globe & Mail Centre or livestream the two auction sessions from home.

    🔮 Live Auction of Important Canadian Art (Session 1) at 4:00 pm EST

    🔮 Live Auction of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2) at 7:00 pm EST

  • Tom Thomson “Petawawa Gorges”: Highlight of the Live Auction of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art

    Of the many regions of Canada painted by the artists associated with the Group of Seven, Algonquin Park remains most intimately associated with Tom Thomson. In this study, and in four others, Thomson has depicted the cliffs rising from the water, framing the narrow gorge. He must have painted them seated in his canoe in the middle of the river.

    Join Lydia as she discusses this important painting by Tom Thomson, included in Cowley Abbott’s Live Auction of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art on Thursday, December 1st at 7:00 pm.

    Further details about the artwork can be found here: https://cowleyabbott.ca/artwork/AW41776

  • Paul Kane “Ojibwa Camp in the Spider Islands”: Highlight of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art

    Rob Cowley discusses “Ojibwa Camp in the Spider Islands” by Paul Kane, a canvas which spent more than a century in the collection of the artist’s family.

    Join Rob as he chats about this rare artwork, making its auction debut with Cowley Abbott this fall. This painting is featured in the Auction of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art, the second session of the December 1st, 2022 Cowley Abbott Fall Live Auction.

    You can view details of Paul Kane’s “Ojibwa Camp in the Spider Islands” at this link: https://cowleyabbott.ca/artwork/AW41521

  • RenĂ© Marcil “Abstract #15”: Highlight of the Live Auction of Important Canadian Art

    One of the Quebec masters included in our Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art (Session 1) is RenĂ© Marcil. “Abstract #15″ is a modern geometric abstraction, influenced by what the artist witnessed while in Paris. Join Rob as he highlights this artwork, which we are delighted to be offering this auction season.


    Find further details about the artwork here: https://cowleyabbott.ca/artwork/AW40156

  • Two Fantastic Paintings by Laura Muntz are included in our Two-Session Live Auction of Important Canadian Art

    We have been entrusted with many fantastic artworks this fall auction season and two paintings by Laura Muntz have captured the attention of one of our specialists, Anna. 

    “A Little Girl”, originally in the collection of the artist, was exhibited in 1905 in New York at the National Academy of Design. This painting is engaging, not only for its warmth and naturalness of subject, but because Muntz chose to portray more of a country girl than a city girl, within a setting that indicates country life, with the watchful barnyard cat at the girl’s feet.

    Muntz was considered a trailblazer for women artists in Canada and painted this dazzling portrait in 1903. The striking figure in this work is modelled after the artist’s niece, Elizabeth. Echoes of this painting can be seen in the subject of “Oriental Poppies” of 1915, a canvas in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

    We hope you will join us on December 1st at Toronto’s Globe & Mail Centre when these artworks will make their debut at auction with Cowley Abbott.