Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Picture Bought for Its Frame in Devon Sells for $78,000 at Bonhams Canadian Art Sale

December 1, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Market

TORONTO.- A stunning watercolour of Canadian Indian totems sold at Bonhams in Toronto last night (29.11.10)for $78,000 (Canadian dollars), completing a huge roundtrip that took the picture painted in Western Canada to the West Country in England, and then back to Canada. Charles Lanning, Bonhams Regional Director in Devon, says: “The picture was brought to us after it was purchased for its frame at a local Devon auction. When the buyer took it home he researched the artist and felt it [...]