December 2nd and 3rd, 2020, Heffel and Cowley Abbott respectively hosted their fall live auction sales. A week before the auctions, Toronto implemented new COVID restrictions effectively halting all in person viewings of the two auction houses’ preview shows. The sales were held virtually and bidding was restricted to phone, absentee and online. Despite these …
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What Sold at Art Toronto?
This year Art Toronto, under the leadership of Mia Nielson, held a digital fair from October 28 to November 8th. The fair brought together galleries from across the country on the Art Toronto platform. The online fair gave visitors a chance to browse the offering of the different galleries and attend online art talks hosted …
Press: Canadian Art Magazine
I was recently featured in Canadian Art magazine to give my take on the fall auction week! Interview on Canada’s Fall Auctions Montreal artist and art consultant Courtney Clinton, for one, believes that some works by Lawren Harris, A.J. Casson and Arthur Lismer—particularly those that veered away from classic forested landscapes—performed worse than expected at …