Summer Auction 2023 | Art & Objects
19 - 25 June 2023
Featuring artwork by important Canadian artists including Kent Monkman, Molly Lamb Bobak, and Maud Lewis, as well as a curated selection of fine watches, jewellery, carpets, silver, and design objects. Browse the full catalogue and register to bid.
Bidding
19-25 June 2023; soft close Sunday 25 June, 7 pm AT
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Viewing
Wednesday 21 June: 11-4
Thursday 22 June: 11-4
Friday 23 June: 11-4
Saturday 24 June: 10-1
Also by appointment.
Watch a tour.
Watch a tour of the Summer Auction highlights with curator Sarah Jones.
Auction Highlight: Maud Lewis
We are pleased to present an incredible collection of four Maud Lewis paintings in our Summer Auction.
All of these paintings were acquired directly from Lewis and have been in single family collections since the 1960s.
Images: Maud Lewis, Oxen and Red Cart and Spring Scene ($18,000-$25,000 each)
Auction Highlight: Kent Monkman
This auction features Emergence of a Legend, a series of five studio portraits by Cree artist, Kent Monkman.
In these faux daguerrotypes, Monkman appears as his alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief is portrayed in various guises - a hunter, a vaudeville performer, a trapper’s bride - as if appearing in one of George Catlin’s 19th-century tableaux vivants or travelling exhibitions. Monkman though, in this trickster form, subverts/inverts expectations and stereotypical images of Indigenous peoples, challenging the colonial gaze.
Images: Kent Monkman, The Emergence of a Legend, 2006, portfolio containing five chromogenic prints on metallic paper ($25,000-$35,000 for full series of five prints)
Kent Monkman created 25 editions of the Emergence of a Legend series, one of which is in the National Gallery of Canada collection.
Monkman is one of Canada’s most important and critically acclaimed contemporary artists. Working across genres and media, Monkman’s practice has and continues to challenge received notions of Indigeneity and historical impacts of colonialism.
Monkman has had major exhibitions in Canada and the U.S. and was recently selected to create two monumental paintings for the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Auction Highlight: Jewellery & Watches
Our Summer Auction includes a Patek Philippe 18K Gold and Diamond-Set Ellipse Watch ($10,000-$12,000) and an 18K Gold Collar Necklace ($12,000-$15,000), as well as a collection of other watches and fine jewellery items.
