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Private Canadian Art Sales Show Strong Market

05.27.2010 Newsletters

Rarely have we seen the quality of buyer enthusiasm voraciously responding to purchase opportunities of trophy-quality paintings as we have seen leading up to summer. We have been aggressively pursuing owners and potential sellers of genuinely outstanding works of art, offering to buy outright for resale or to sell on consignment at what must [...]

Private Sale Pay-Off: This is smart business

03.04.2010 Learn more about selling art

We have just paid to the former owner of the most handsome Albert H. Robinson painting illustrated on this newsletter what we believe is the highest price a collector has received for an oil sketch by Robinson.  One traditionally would not expect a re-seller to brag about a purchase at such an elevated price and [...]

2009 Autumn Wrap Up

12.12.2009 Newsletters

It has been for us an exciting and gratifying fall season.  We began with our 36th annual non-selling exhibition, this one a tribute to Paul Vanier Beaulieu, an important modern artist, active primarily from the end of World War II until his passing.  This display of especially fine paintings, watercolours, and etchings provided sound visual [...]

Canadian Art sales and other fall musings

11.05.2009 Learn more about selling art

We are delighted and proud to be hosting our first solo exhibition for Laurie Campbell who we have known for several years but only recently begun showing her paintings. Although Laurie’s painting place is a familiar one which has inspired any number of predecessors and contemporaries one must acknowledge that she has her own [...]

Exceptional interest in Paul Vanier Beaulieu

10.02.2009 Newsletters

On September 26 our Paul Vanier Beaulieu retrospective ended after an exceptional two weeks. Almost 1500 people took advantage of this unique opportunity to see 40 privately held masterworks by this underestimated artist.
Bolstered by positive reviews in La Presse, The Westmount Examiner, The Westmount Independent and The Suburban, this, the 35th annual non-selling show [...]

Sell privately and avoid risk

07.29.2009 Learn more about selling art

“It’s very clear that the majority of sales in the art market are going to be less public”
- Neal Meltzer, art dealer and former head of Christie’s Contemporary Art
The summer gives one an opportunity to briefly reflect on what was a busy spring season before moving forward in preparation for what will be for us [...]

May 30 sale features rare paintings by Krieghoff, Coonan & Robinson

05.30.2009 Newsletters

Having just returned from attending three auction sales held over a period of less than one week when two of the three houses left their catalogue cover paintings unsold and the third, although not the cover picture, the lot anticipated to be the most costly offering, did not meet its reserve, I find a Canadian [...]

Krieghoff, Cullen, old masters key to astute buying

04.01.2009 Newsletters

“Business is blooming against all odds in the art market when the rest of the world economy shrinks.”
Souren Melikian, in The International Herald Tribune of March 20 2009, reported on the 239 art dealer supported Maastricht art fair, one which focuses primarily on Old Master pictures … ”Business is blooming against all odds in the [...]

Sculpture & Authenticity

03.01.2009 Newsletters

The application of this concept to unique works of art, paintings for instance, is self-evident and popularly accepted. When applied to works of art done in multiples, that is prints, photographs and sculpture for instance, “authenticity” is more ambiguous.
The fundamental issues are quality of supply and quantity of supply.  Firstly, if one accepts as authentic [...]

The fixed price advantage (continued)

12.20.2008 Learn more about selling art

First and foremost a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holiday Season to all of you. From three generations of Klinkhoffs active here in the Gallery plus our loyal and efficient support team including Johanne, Lynn & John, we thank you for your on going support and encouragement.
In my previous Newsletter I addressed you a [...]

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