On July 14, 2014, at the invitation of a distinguished colleague and friend of long standing, I flew from Montreal to Toronto and was driven to a commercial art gallery in Hamilton where I was to participate as an evaluator of a group of paintings to be donated to the...

From the late 1950s, the village of Ste-Lucie as well as the neighbouring towns of Ste-Agathe and Val-David were to provide Borenstein with compositions which today are his most celebrated legacies.

In September, 1929, John Lyman attended the famous rowing regatta, which had been held since 1879 in the Bay of La Concha in San Sebastián, on the Basque coast of Spain. In May of that year, Lyman and his wife Corinne had moved into the La Chaumière villa in Saint-Jean-De-Luz,...

As carefree as Jack Bush’s paintings appear to be – in their handling of paint and ‘ad-libbing’ of colour – he was remarkably careful. The artist kept three tidy record books, which stood as an inventory of his fine art. He recorded matters such as titles, dates, dimensions, medium and...

James Wilson Morrice was born in Montreal, lived in Paris and travelled half the world, but each time he crossed the Atlantic he found time to visit Québec City and nearby Côte-de-Beaupré. Most of his Canadian subjects are winter scenes, since he usually came home for Christmas. Only one important...

On Sunday, November 9, 2014 as guests of the McMichael Collection's Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Victoria Dickenson, Jonathan, Helen and I, accompanied by two friends visited the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg for another viewing of 'Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse'. This outstanding...

This especially fine preliminary study of what would ultimately be developed into an illustration for Le Grand Silence Blanc (on page 168) is aesthetically precious, an important visual document in the narrative of Clarence Gagnon and announced the first “official inauguration” of Canadian art in France, in 1927 at Paris’,...

During the War of 1812, the Fort at Chambly served as the headquarters for British and Canadian soldiers defending Montreal from attacks by American armies to the south. But by 1814 there was little activity except briefly in 1837, when some troops were deployed to quell the rebellions in both...

Last Thursday my father, Alan, and I attended the lenders evening for the exhibition Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. This formidable exhibition is the latest in a series of significant research-based projects originating from the Musée national des...

TORONTO - Galerie Alan Klinkhoff is introducing its new office in Toronto. Jonathan Klinkhoff, the third generation of the Klinkhoff family in the Canadian art business manages the office, temporarily located in the TD Canada Trust Tower, where our business hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm by appointment. Alan and Craig Klinkhoff...

It is with sadness that we learn of the passing of Claude A Simard, RCA. Over more than three decades my family has enjoyed the pleasure of knowing ‘’Claude A’’, Claude’s wife, muse & manager Huguette, watching their lovely daughters Roseline and Melanie-Rose grow from childhood to motherhood as well...

Yves Gaucher's “grey on grey” paintings have been described as 'one of the stellar achievements of Canadian painting (or international painting, for that matter).' Reviewing an exhibition of three grey on grey canvases at the 1968 Edinburgh Festival, British curator and art critic Bryan Robertson described them as 'possibly the...

Our family has had the pleasure of representing the art of Fred Ross for more than 40 years. Fred committed more than 55 years to creating an important legacy of painting in personal interpretation of a realist style at times showing influences of Balthus and others Rivera, the latter with...

Emily Coonan produced some remarkably compelling figurative works during the 1920s, paintings that stand as important examples of her innovative, singular style. Her representations of the girls and women who peopled her world, a subject that she returned to frequently in her life, are characterized by a disarming simplicity, a...

This magnificent Borduas painting is a fine discovery. Paintings of 1949 are especially rare to come upon. A year after the publication of the manifesto Refus Global, and his suspension from his teaching position at the École du Meuble, 1949 was not an easy year for Borduas. He literally had...

Congratulations to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) for the exhibition 'Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse,' which opened yesterday. To borrow eleven works by Matisse is no simple feat and to see alongside them more than fifty outstanding paintings by Morrice and so many by...

Having been in the business of Canadian art for four decades and being a hockey fan, with the impending excitement of a Habs vs. Bruins playoff series, we are proud to share with you what we believe is the finest hockey painting.

On Saturday, March 29, Galerie Alan Klinkhoff will be celebrating the official opening of our new Montreal gallery in conjunction with an online exhibition of Important Canadian Art. The exhibition and sale will be posted on klinkhoff.com, with select works on view at the gallery. We will also be posting...

We imagine that it should go without saying that you should buy only works of art that the market considers to be authentic. If you are purchasing a painting by a living artist directly through that artist’s dealer, you have every reason to expect that the vendor has the expertise...

Although some might suggest that Emily Coonan was “reclusive, ” it is more than likely that she simply did not fit with the social profile of the other Beaver Hall Women, the letter being from primarily of upper-middle class protestant heritage while Coonan was of Irish Catholic roots and living...