Canadian Paintings

S. HARROWING - 'Baie St. Paul, Que.' - Fine Mid Century Canadian Impressionist landscape oil painting on Masonite panel - signed lower right - t...

TRACY ROOT - "Working Class" - Fine acrylic urban portrait painting on panel - brushed aluminum frame - signed and dated lower right - titled verso with exhibition note - Canada - ci...

'Simply Fabulous Transformation' - exceptional mid-century cartoon style illustration art - gouache over graphite/colored pencil - signed (unidentified artist/maker) - unframed - Can...

HELI LILLES (1939-1995) - Mid-Century Modernist original oil painting on card/panel - extraordinary quality and composition - signed lower left - untitled - unframed - mounted with m...

Raymond Milton Schell (1936-2014) - "Softly Falls the Evening" - Canadian school fine art landscape acrylic painting on linen canvas mounted to Birch ply - exacting detail throughout...

Vintage Impressionist style watercolor painting - unsigned - untitled - unframed - original 'Eaton's - Toronto' label verso - Canada - mid 20th century. Excellent vintage conditio...

Wilhelmina 'Mina' Alexander (1871-1961) - 'Along the Shore Lake Ontario' - Impressionist landscape oil painting on canvas (mounted to panel) - antique original giltwood frame with gl...

DERRILL ALLAN RAUSCH (1938-2007) - Untitled - British Columbia coastal landscape oil painting on Masonite panel - original gilded finish wood frame, beige linen liner and gilt edged ...

Raymond Milton Schell (1936-2014) - "Early One Morning" - Canadian school fine art landscape acrylic painting on linen canvas mounted to Birch ply - exacting detail throughout from t...

Laura Wellard - 'Cacophony' - mid century Expressionist oil painting on panel - signed lower right - titled and dated on back paper - unframed - Canada -...

Lorne H. Bouchard R.C.A. (1913 - 1978) - 'The Ice Bridge - Laurentians' - Important Canadian Impressionist "plein air" landscape oil painting on...

Inge Franz-Claussen is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1939. Inge Claussen was born in Hamburg Germany, where she spent her chi...

A stunning large and original Contemporary textured painting by Sophia Paleotheodoros in blue, white, burnish gold, yellow, red, black. Sophia ...

Contemporary Canadian mixed media collage painting on paper - untitled - initialed and dated on the back board - acid free matte - Canada - 2013. Excellent condition - no loss - no damage - no restoration - minor scuffs to the matte board - unframed. Size of Painting...

Sheila Denaburg - Contemporary Expressionist style double sided mixed media painting on paper - extraordinary quality and composition - untitled - unframed - signed - Canada - circa ...

Joanne Heath-Menger- 'Afternoon Tea' - Vintage watercolor painting over graphite on paper - signed lower right - signed and titled verso - gallery/catalog number verso W/C 121-4 - fi...

Vintage watercolor and sepia painting on watercolor paper - indistinctly signed verso - dated in pencil on the back - vintage double matte with beveled edges - Canada - circa 1975. ...

Charming decorative large scale acrylic painting by noted Canadian artist Stephen Kaye. The paints depicts stylized birds in branches, on an abstract textured paint surface. Signed l...

Original Diana Creasey-Funk in black wood float-frame.

Oil on canvas signed B H Stone. Depicting a Canadian winter landscape encased in a carved frame. Dimensions Height 25 inches Width 29.5 inches Depth ...

A fantastic Vintage Contemporary original painting. A chic work by the Canadian artist Sylvan Roberge. A monumental work in encaustic paint and pigmented beeswax. Part of his Glamour...

Ink on Paper of Nudes "Réflexion dans un Mirror" by Boris Vansier With Original Sticker Gallery Agnès Lefort Boris Vansier spent his youth in Geneva and left for the United States in 1946, settling first in New York where he took classes at Adelphi University then in Los Angeles where he attended the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute. In 1948, after a brief return to Switzerland, Vansier moved to Montreal where he met gallerist Henry Kleemann, who offered him his first exhibition at the Kleemann Gallery in New York. In 1954, he left Canada to settle in France, first in Cannes until 1956, then in Paris during the 1960s where he befriended New Realist artists including Arman, David Lan-Bar, Raymond Hains...

Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin. Published by Yale University Press for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog. Published...

Powerful original landscape by Canadian artist Guy Roy having marvelous impasto and color palette. Signed lower left. Canvas measures 30 x 36 Matted and framed with gilded molding a...

This original acrylic painting on artist board was done by well known Canadian artist James Henderson Boyd in 1965 in the period Mid-Century Modern style. This abstract painting is d...

Colorful still life painting by artist Jane Kewin, Ottawa, Canada. Yellow, blue, red, pink. Turquoise colors. Created in 1991. Giltwood frame.

“Marrakech Souk” is an original, one of a kind, blue, yellow, red, white, black, contemporary, acrylic on canvas, abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

Jolly Rider is an original, one-of-a-kind, acrylic on canvas contemporary Fanciful Inuit painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Floyd...

Title: Ecriture Liee (Linked Writing) Artist: Jean-Daniel Rohrer (Swiss Canadian, 1960-). Media: Mixed media on Canvas (collage, stencil, chalk and oil on canvas). Year: 2007 Siz...

This original painting was done by the Canadian artist, Manly E. MacDonald in circa 1960 in his semi-impressionistic style. The painting is done on canvas artist's board and is a Can...

Modern abstract, oil on canvas painting, titled “Les Poissons 1/The Fish 1” by Michelle Hénault, a conceptual fine artist. Signed on front bottom right, also, signed, dated and titled on back, measuring approximate 24" H x 18" W x 1.5” D. Gallery wrapped, finished sides; circa dated 2014. Michelle Hénault is a Conceptual Fine Artist, born in Lachute, Quebec, living and working in Montreal since 1991. She completed a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at UQAM in 1998. After exploring sculpture...

"#9 Chinese Acrobats" - confetti of colors - Acrylic, oil, metal leaf and paint on canvas, signed lower right back and dated '89 - Framed dimensions: 31 in x 25 in.

Decorative silver painting by William Kozar, 2008, Canada.

“Venus Sunrise” is an original, one of a kind, purple, yellow, white, black, blue, contemporary, acrylic on canvas, abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

“Rooster” is an original, one of a kind, red, yellow, white, black, blue, contemporary, acrylic on canvas, abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this uni...

Very large oil on canvas, ancient tableau, Jaguar by Kindrie Grove, Canadian Artist. Large oil painting that depicts a Mayan Jaguar. Made in 2002. The ar...

Artist: Rolph Scarletti (Canadian, 1889 – 1984) Object: Modernist Abstract Composition Period: Ca. 1950’s Medium: Guache on paper, framed Dimensions (unframed): Height: 9-1/3” Width: 12” Dimensions (framed): Height: 22-3/4”” Width: 25-3/4” Rolph Scarlett (Canadian, 1889 – 1984) was a consummate explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting. Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him while steadfastly aware that he was on his own path and his alone, Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist of the eras in which he lived. Exposed very early on to the work of Paul Klee through a chance meeting in Europe with the artist himself, Scarlett took up abstraction with a fervor that never diminished during his long and impressive career. To create something that had never existed before: this was Scarlett’s great cause. And that is what is most obvious when you look at Scarlett’s work—you have never seen anything quite like it. Scarlett was Canadian-born, came of age in the Midwest, and spent few important years in Hollywood, where he designed stage sets. His work from this early period echoes Klee’s use of color, his confidence in naïve, primitive forms, and his blend of abstraction and figuration. In its flat spatial qualities it prefigures the Indian Space painting of the 1940s by a decade. He moved to New York in 1933 and eventually found his first great patron at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, directed by Baroness Hilla Rebay and art patron Solomon R. Guggenheim. Guggenheim would collect over 60 works by Scarlett for his collection, more than any other artist outside of Vasily Kandinsky and Rudolf Bauer. As a frequent exhibitor and lecturer at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (MNOP), Scarlett honed his sensitive feel for bodies in space and capitalized on his trademark use of bright, vivacious colors into accomplished, perfectly harmonized geometric works. However, Scarlett soon morphed these hard-edged forms into a nuanced expressionistic abstraction which, at its best, seems to be populated by dancing forms that animate the canvases. Along this way he was advised by Rudolf Bauer, the German expatriate and one of the originators of non-objective painting in the teens. Bauer had the idea for the Museum, and Rebay, his champion, had found in Solomon Guggenheim a patron for manifesting it. When Bauer emigrated just before World War II, he wanted to meet Scarlett. The two became friends, and Bauer advised Scarlett on his work over the course of many years. Even in a 1979 interview, Scarlett began to tear up as he recalled his first meeting with Bauer, a man whose work he "worshipped," describing that, "It was a touching moment for me, I’ll tell you." Scarlett and Rebay also had a close, important relationship, one in which he bore the brunt of her sometimes condescending, if motherly, critiques and admonitions with tolerance and gratefulness. Eventually, though, he had to push back. In a letter from 1951 he writes, "I have noticed with growing amazement that during the past three years you have accepted less and less of my work—and, that same work, which you rejected has been accepted and shown in the best and largest shows all over this country." This period—the late 1940s to the early 1950s—did in fact correspond to Scarlett’s most critical success, and to a return to the fanciful forms and characters of his pre-war work. At the same time, he found his own rhythm and complexity using a drip style similar to, though denser and more opaque than, the one made famous by Jackson Pollock, who had worked for many years at the MNOP and with whom he shared common influences. In 1949 he had a very well received solo show in 1949 at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery, reviewed very favorably in The New York Times: "The impression made by these paintings is one of originality and strength." He was also included in a juried show "American Painting Today" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950 and in the Whitney Annual of 1951. The curator for the Whitney show in fact bypassed a selection of Scarlett’s careful geometrics in favor of a new "lyrical" drip painting—one which he describes as having had "a helluva good time" making. Rebay articulated her loss of control over Scarlett very keenly in one of her last official letters to him: "So your way ended in the horrid jungle it is in now; even a Mr. Pollock’s smearage was not bad enough for you to have a try at; and betraying yourself, you betrayed art and my faith in you, and my present disgrace by my failure to foresee such an outrageous possibility—since you even paint objectively now." Yet, despite the fact that he was moving in his own direction when the change in leadership took place at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting and Rebay was forced out as director, Scarlett was hit hard. He understood this change rightly as a betrayal by the establishment. Scarlett was a unique individual and soul, and was affected personally and philosophically by the idea that the movement with which Scarlett had aligned his talents seemed to disappear overnight, and his life’s work rendered valueless. Without the Museum’s support, Scarlett decided eventually to move to the artists’ community of Shady, New York, just outside of Woodstock. He had occasional shows throughout the years, but mostly settled down to regional obscurity. He began making jewelry, which had been his first trade, and it was following a show of his jewelry in 1975 at the Jaro Gallery, that he was rediscovered by Samuel Esses, and his wife Sandy. Samuel Esses was a successful businessman and an avid collector. He always sought out that which was unusual and, like Scarlett, was ahead of his time in many ways. For example, in 1979, Sam became enthralled with the early graffiti appearing on the New York subway trains. With the sole goal of preserving these groundbreaking yet short lived works of art he was inspired to create "The Esses Studio," a painting warehouse and workshop for graffiti artists to work in a studio, collaborate, and paint on canvas. The biggest names of graffiti writing participated—Futura, Crash, Dondi, Zephyr, and Daze to name a few. The project was well received and provided critical validation at an important time for this alternative form of abstraction to be recognized by the established art world. The success of the "Esses Studio" helped fuel an alternative fire that would propel gallerists and curators to acknowledge other street artists and provide a foundation of acceptance for the early careers of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is not a stretch to say that what Esses saw in the graffiti art of the 1970s was very similar to what he saw in 1950s-era Scarletts—something raw, honest, and melding many twentieth century influences into one unique form. Inspired by the importance of the collection and the passion of the collector, Weinstein Gallery...

“Nebula” is an original, one of a kind, blue, yellow, orange, purple, red, pink, cream, white, black, contemporary, acrylic on canvas abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

Richly colored, signed and dated, abstract figurative, acrylic-on-paper artwork by listed, Quebecois Expressionist painter, Gisele Leclerc (1931-2019). Her work appears in the presti...

A large and funky modern painting by Istvan Lendvay, a Canadian artist from Hungary (1929-2016). Istvan was born in 1929 in a small village in the count...

Very large oil on canvas, Oasis, African Zebras by Kindrie Grove, Canadian Artist. Large oil painting that depicts a group of zebras drinking peacefully...

“Louisiana Blues” is an original, one-of-a-kind, blue, black, white, hues of yellow, contemporary, acrylic on canvas abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

Modern abstract, mixed-media paintings; titled “Saddened By the Distance” by Maria Astadjov, a conceptual fine artist; two panels of mixed-media on Alum...

“Diwali Festival of Lights” is an original, one-of-a-kind, blue, green, orange, yellow, red, gray, pink, cream, white, black, contemporary, acrylic on canvas abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

“Calypso” is an original, one of a kind, blue, yellow, green, cream, white, black, contemporary, acrylic on canvas abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

(1901-1967). Oil on canvas; 20" x 24". Very prominent Canadian painter. His works are included in most exhibitions of 20th century Canadian art with dozens of examples in permanent c...

Adam Sherriff Scott was born in Perth, Scotland and began his art education in 1903 at the Edinburgh School of Art. He was awarded the Allen-Fraser Scholarship to continue his studies for four years at the Allen-Fraser institute, which was a finishing school for talented young artists, and studied under George Harcourt A.R.A. After this, he continued his studies at the Slade School under Henry Tonks as well as at the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. In 1912, he moved to Canada. He worked for an American who commissioned him to paint large scenes of the Canadian West to sell to real estate agents. Scott moved to Montreal in 1915 He became a member of the Beaver Hall...

“Waiting Another Day” is an original, one-of-a-kind, red, yellow, white, black, green, contemporary, acrylic on wood panel abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

“Printemps Paris” is an original, one of a kind, pink, yellow, green, black, cream, contemporary, acrylic on canvas abstract still life painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

“Spring’s Slowly Returning” is an original, one of a kind, orange, yellow, green, blue, red, cream, white, black, contemporary, mixed-media on canvas abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

“Winter Vortex” is an original, one of a kind, white, yellow, black, gray, red, blue contemporary, acrylic on canvas abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmony to create this unique, contemporary work of art by Andrew...

“Castillos de Helado” (Ice Cream castles) is an original, one of a kind abstract painting. Pink, blue, yellow, white, black, purple, contemporary, mixed media on wood panel, abstract...

“Sea Sprites” is an original, one-of-a-kind, pink, purple, orange, gray, white, blue, yellow, contemporary, acrylic on canvas, abstract painting. Vibrant pops of color work in harmon...

“Por Una Cabeza Amor” is an original, one of a kind painting. Red, blue, green, black, yellow, gray, contemporary, acrylic on wood panel still life painting. Vibrant pops of color wo...

Modern abstract, oil on canvas painting; titled “Le Grand Bleu” by Michelle Hénault, a conceptual fine artist. Signed on front bottom right, also, signed...

Robert Gary Miller "Pauline" ( Indigenous Canadian 1950-) 1990 signed and numbered 7/10 artist proof lithograph. Framed and matted. See our other items for more R.G. Miller paintings. Actual size- 22.5" H x 18.5" W, framed size- 33.38 H x 28.75 W About the Artist Robert Gary Miller-Lahiaaks was born in 1950 on the six nations...

This work is signed and dated "B. Aslanian 2016”, titled: “Le Jardin” verso of the canvas and signed B. Aslanian on recto; canvas size 30" high x 40” wide; framed 40.5” x 30.5” x 1” profile. The painting depicts Vintage Lazy Summer Day Gathering. Aslanian is a painter of striking individuality. Aslanian’s art depicts people sitting and gathering on their street near their home and enjoying summer. Born in Alexandria in 1937, Bedros Aslanian...

Modern abstract, oil on canvas painting, titled “Summertime III” by Michelle Hénault, a conceptual fine artist. Signed on front bottom right, also, signed, dated and titled on back; measuring approximate 30" H x 36" W x 1.5” D. Gallery wrapped, finished sides, dated circa 2019. Michelle Hénault is a Conceptual Fine Artist, born in Lachute, Quebec, living and working in Montreal since 1991. She completed a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at UQAM in 1998. After exploring sculpture and photography, she dedicated herself to oil painting. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows over the last fifteen years. In 2010, she moved to Scotland with her partner for two years. Since returning to Montreal, she has devoted her time to oil painting and her work has flourished. Inspired by her many travels, her work explores landscapes as a contemplative territory. The desire to revisit past voyages through painting and to recapture the sentiments she experienced in various places was her primary motivation for producing these landscapes. "For the last fifteen years I have explored the reconstruction of landscapes in my painting. My practice is concerned with our relation to land as the memory of place. A land can be occupied, shared, transformed and dreamed, idealized. The land, as homeland or an idyllic land to travel to, where the memory is presupposed. Through my art, I explore that memory of travel, the journeys I made and the ones I dreamed. When contemplating a landscape and experiencing the change of light or atmosphere we realize the passage of time. As explorers from bygone eras, seeking unknown lands, my work proposes a return to the essential…that the French call ‘le bapteme de la solitude’. It is a unique sensation, and it has nothing to do with loneliness, for loneliness presupposes memory. Here, in this wholly mineral landscape lighted by stars like flares, even memory disappears; nothing is left but your own breathing and the sound of your heat beating. A strange, and by no means pleasant, process of reintegration begins inside you, and you have the choice of fighting against it, and insisting on remaining the person you have always been, or letting it take its course. For no one...