Tag: art dealer

  • New Digs on Dundas: Ohler’s Fine Arts New Home

    30 years in Calgary, 6 years in Vancouver and now, later this spring, here on the second floor at Cowley Abbott on Dundas St. in Toronto, Peter Ohler will have a new home to meet with clients and show a selection of Top Quality Canadian Art available for Private Sale. Please feel free to contact Peter at [email protected] for more details or drop in to view his recent acquisitions.

    One of the recent acquisitions that will be on display, a wonderful 1927 David Milne oil.

    David Milne
    Under the Porch, Big Moose Lake,
    Adirondacks, N.Y. 13 September 1927
    Oil on canvas
    12×16 in.

    Milne inventory #207.98

    Provenance
    Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto c.1980
    Private Collection
    Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 1990
    Private Collection

    Exhibited
    Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Centenary
    Exhibition, 1982, no. 7

    The verandah of the staff house at the Glenmore Hotel on Big Moose Lake provided David Milne with a sheltered painting place on several occasions. Under the Porch as well as The Glenmore, Big Moose, and Hotel Across the Way were all painted from this location.

    During the five years between the spring of 1924 and 1929, Milne’s life was split between Big Moose Lake in the summers (where his time was largely absorbed by building a teahouse) and Lake Placid in the winters (where he and Patsy ran the teahouse at Ski-T, at the foot of the Intervale ski-jump). The construction schedule at Big Moose Lake and the responsibilities at the Lake Placid Club cut heavily into Milne’s painting time and, although he produced some outstanding paintings, his overall production fell sharply.

    David Milne Jr and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Toronto, 1998, cat. no. 207.98

  • Rob Speaks with the Global Morning Show regarding the Consignor Spring Auction

  • Two Works by Coveted Abstract Artist Jack Bush Set to Debut at Consignor Spring Auction

    Jack Bush, Pink on Red (1961)

    Consignor Canadian Fine Art Exclusively Acquires Corporate Contemporary Art for its Semi-Annual Spring Auction

    TORONTO (For Immediate Release – April 30, 2014) – Consignor Canadian Fine Art is debuting several exciting works of art that will hit the auction block for the first time including two signature canvases by Jack Bush, Pink on Red – Thrust (1961) and Summer Lake (1973); as well as works by fellow Canadian artists Yves Gaucher, Dorothy Knowles, Betty Goodwin, Rita Letendre, William Perehudoff and Harold Town, acquired from the corporate collection of Rothmans, Benson and Hedges Inc. Consignor.ca, Canada’s online art marketplace, will hold its upcoming semi- annual Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art, May 21 – 29, featuring more than 80 lots up for bid. Live previews will be held at its Toronto gallery starting May 1st.

    (more…)

  • New Canadian Auction House Will Blend Tradition And Innovation

    amconsignor pic

    just months after sotheby’s canada announced its departure from the world of canadian fine art auctions, a new tech-forward auction house has announced its plans to step-up and take some of the action.

    consignor canadian fine art, which will officially open its doors on august 1st, is a partnership between rob cowley (former vice president and chief auctioneer with joyner waddington’s canadian fine art), lydia abbott (former canadian fine art specialist with joyner waddington’s) and ryan mayberry (mayberry fine art).

    situated thoughtfully across from the art gallery of ontario at 326 dundas street west, consignor will offer a full range of both auction and appraisal services, leading towards its first semi-annual auction in november.

    (more…)

  • Consignor Canadian Fine Art Brings New Partnership Between Mayberry Fine Art and Auction Industry Veterans

    Consignor 20 inches width

    (Toronto – For Immediate Release) A new partnership between one of the country’s leading Canadian art galleries and two auction industry veterans brings a new presence to the Canadian auction landscape.

    Consignor Canadian Fine Art will officially open its doors on August 1st at 326 Dundas Street West (directly across the street from the Art Gallery of Ontario), moving the former Mayberry Fine Art division of Consignor.ca into a separate, full-time auction venture. The new company will be a partnership including Rob Cowley (former Vice President and Chief Auctioneer with Joyner Waddington’s Canadian Fine Art), Lydia Abbott (former Canadian Fine Art Specialist with Joyner Waddington’s and Office Director with Heffel Fine Art) and Ryan Mayberry (Partner at Mayberry Fine Art and Founder of Consignor.ca), who will act as principals.

    Consignor will offer a full range of auction and appraisal services, commencing with fall sales of Canadian art, including a November auction of Fine Canadian Art: an online auction which will feature works by important Canadian artists. The November sale (the first of semi-annual online auctions of premiere works by historical and post-war Canadian artists) will be accompanied by a full-colour and academic auction catalogue and extended live previews in the newly-renovated gallery space. The firm will also offer appraisal services, with documents written to International Society of Appraiser and USPAP standards (with both Cowley and Abbott being accredited members of the ISA).

    The partnership brings together the private sale and auction industries: Mayberry Fine Art, with galleries in Winnipeg, Toronto, and British Columbia, has over 40 years of experience in the Canadian art market and are best known for privately brokering sales of rare and important works of Canadian art as well as representing some of the nation’s top contemporary artists; and Rob Cowley and Lydia Abbott, with over twenty years of combined experience within the auction industry, both playing managerial and senior specialist roles with Joyner Waddington’s and Heffel’s.

    (more…)