The Heffel House Spring Auction will take place on May 25 in Toronto. The works, many of which are of museum quality, are on display free of charge from this Thursday, and until next Wednesday, at the premises of Heffel’s Montreal office. Among these, paintings by Emily Carr, Alex Colville, Lawren Stewart Harris, EJ Hughes, Jean Paul Riopelle and Jean Paul Lemieux.
Heffel predicts that the highlight of the sale could be the monumental june noon by Alex Colville. Originally acquired by the Langen family of Germany, famous for their private museum, the painting has been in that collection for over 50 years and has been exhibited in several museums and at the Venice Biennale in 1966 while Colville represented Canada. Sold at auction for the first time, the nude (the artist’s wife, Rhoda) is estimated between $1,500,000 and $2,500,000.
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june noon, 1963, Alexander Colville, acrylic polymer emulsion on panel, 76.2 x 76.2 cm. Estimate: 1.5 million-2.5 million.
By Emily Carr, Heffel will put her masterpiece up for sale Sitka Totem Pole painted in 1912 on his return from France. The painting has been kept by the same family since its acquisition from Emily Carr’s dealer, the renowned Max Stern of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal, and has only been exhibited once in the past century, when the retrospective Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Legend organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 2006.
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Abandoned Village, Rivers Inlet, BC, 1947, EJ Hughes, oil on canvas, 81.3 x 101.6 cm. Estimate 1.25 million-1.75 million.
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Sitka Totem Pole, 1912, Emily Carr, oil on canvas, 87.6 x 29.2 cm. Estimate: 1 million-1.5 million.
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Grande-Vallée Landscape, 1949, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, casein on panel, 91.4 x 121.9 cm. Estimate: $400,000-$600,000.
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Northern Picture, 1952, Lawren Stewart Harris, oil on canvas, 127.6 x 120 cm. Estimate: $450,000-$550,000.
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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from Reigning Queens, 1985, Andy Warhol, serigraph on Lenox museum panel, 100 x 80 cm. Estimate: $200,000-$300,000.
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Owl-carnival, 1973-1986, Jean Paul Riopelle, bronze sculpture, 29.8 x 29.5 x 16.5 cm. Estimate: $30,000-$50,000.
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samuel, 1963, Jean Paul Lemieux, oil on canvas, 86.4 x 57.8 cm. Estimate: $250,000-$350,000.
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Untitled, 1957, Jean Paul Riopelle, oil on canvas, 45.7 x 54.6 cm. Estimate: $150,000-$250,000.
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On the occasion of the centenary of Riopelle’s birth, the auction will sell four of his works, including a bronze sculpture, Owl-carnival. Three paintings by Jean Paul Lemieux will also be on sale, including the astonishing portrait samuelas well as the large Green-red serial system by Guido Molinari and the brilliant Grande-Vallée Landscape by Marc-Aurèle Fortin, a brightly colored painting representing Gaspé. The Heffel House forecasts global sales between 10 and 15 million.