A trio of paintings by the Group of Seven’s Lawren Harris brought in more than $3 million at an art auction in Vancouver last night.
The Heffel Fine Art Auction House says Harris’s canvas “Laurentian Landscape” sold for almost $2.2 million, well over the pre-auction estimate His oil-on-board works “Coldwell, Lake Superior” and “Mount Sampson, Maligne Lake” fetched a total of just over $1 million.
Alex Colville’s “Swimming Dog and Canoe” sold for almost $1.2 million, surpassing the estimate of $500 thousand.
Total sales at the auction reached a total of $17.2 million.