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Lawren Harris Painting sells for $2.8M

Print Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:49 Written by The Canadian Press



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Bylot Island I by Lawren Harris sold for $2.8 million at the Heffel auction house. (Heffel.com)
Bylot Island I by Lawren Harris sold for $2.8 million at the Heffel auction house. (Heffel.com)
Fears over the European debt crisis did little to dissuade art connoisseurs at a Vancouver auction Wednesday, where works by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris sparked seven-figure bidding wars.

Harris's Bylot Island I, an oil-on-canvas Arctic landscape painted in the early 1930s, sold for $2.8 million after the 17 per cent buyer premium.

"An Arctic Lawren Harris is one of the rarest commodities in the Canadian art world," said David Heffel, president of the Heffel auction house that kicked off spring sales of fine Canadian art.

"Most of those reside in public institutions today, so for one to turn up in a private collection and come back into the market is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for bidders."

Those in the running for Bylot Island I certainly treated it as a rare find. Auction paddles shot up across the room in the Vancouver convention centre, as those attending the event in person battled with a phone bidder.

When the mystery caller was declared the winner, those in attendance couldn't help but applaud. The work fetched the fourth-highest price ever for a Canadian painting sold at auction.

Bylot Island I wasn't the only Harris artwork to break the million-dollar mark Wednesday. Arctic Sketch, an oil-on-board painted in 1930, sold for $1.521 million after the premium.

Harris's Winter painting went for $731,250, Mountain Sketch LXX sold for $497,250 andMount Temple, Mountain Sketch LII fetched $468,000.

Group leader

Harris was born in Brantford, Ont., in 1885 and was a leader in developing the influential group of seven Canadian landscape painters.

Bylot Island I was put on the auction block by an anonymous private collector who said proceeds will be donated to several charities throughout Canada. Several of the other Harris works were put up by the estate of Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, a Montreal collector who passed away last October.

Heffel auction house had a pre-sale estimate of $12 million to $15 million, before the buyer premium. Those numbers were easily surpassed — the total hammer price was just under $18.6 million and the price after premium was more than $21.7 million.

Harris wasn't the only Group of Seven painter who fared well Wednesday.

An oil-on-canvas by Arthur Lismer titled The Sheep's Nose, Bon Echo sold for $1,111,500. The 1922 work depicts a cliff in eastern Ontario's Bon Echo Provincial Park. Another Lismer artwork that had a pre-sale estimate of $25,000 sold for $117,000.

Three of A.Y. Jackson's works went for more than $200,000, and James Edward Hervey's Rock and Maple 2 sold for $245,700 despite the fact its pre-sale estimate was $90,000.

Works by Emily Carr, who wasn't formally in the Group of Seven but knew its members well, were also up for sale Wednesday.

Her paintingStumps, which depicts a B.C. forest, sold for $555,750. A painting of Carr and her sister, titled Emily and Lizzie, went for $468,000, as did her Young Arbutus.