A look at a carved and painted linoleum panel by Fritz Brandtner and how this support served to complement the artist’s abstract and Cubist aesthetic as well as his interest in depicting modern industry.

Here are five of among the most memorable sales the Klinkhoffs have sold to prominent public collections and their significance to each collection.

In 1906, Clapp spent almost a year at Chezy-sur-Marne creating “his first body of Impressionist canvases” (Duval, 72). The location proved an idyllic location for his studies of light. At first sight, Chézy, Valley of the Marne recalls works like Les Meules à Giverny from Claude Monet’s iconic series of...

Paris , Venice, Brittany, then exotic places in North Africa or the West Indies: these were “painting places”, what we expect to see. Often a town, big or small, but never far from the water; so such a simple, pure landscape is rather rare, except for the early years of...

“I believe the export controls continue to do much disservice to the interest they were designed to protect.' (Walter Klinkhoff, Reminiscences of an Art Dealer, 1994, p. 26). Having been a major and distinguished participant in the art dealing trade in Canada for more than four decades, in 1994 my...

Careful draughtsmanship and a profound knowledge of the clean modernist aesthetic led Edwin Holgate to be a central figure in the development of Canadian art in the 1920s and 1930s and to be what the National Gallery calls 'instrumental in the revival of woodblock printing.' Holgate recognized the capacity of...

Unpublished and not seen in public since acquired from Carr by Dr. Max Stern of the Dominion Gallery in August 1944, Totems, Tanoo is in exceptional condition, its colour and vivacity as fresh as the day Carr painted it. Emily Carr 1871-1945, Totems, Tanoo 1912, watercolour on paper 29 ½...

Tom Forrestall, while in Toronto to attend his important exhibition at Mira Godard Gallery, stopped by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery.

In a society ravaged by the Great Depression and war, Fritz Brandtner sought to address contemporary social issues like poverty and health care in this important cubist-inspired composition.

The Green Necklace (1938), provides a rare case study of orientalist genre painting in Canada, helping to answer the question, what might orientalism look like in Canada?

During a sketching tour to northern Georgian Bay in September 1931, MacDonald painted Poplar Point, Sturgeon Bay. Using an open and fluid brush, his late summer painting depicts a rugged shoreline punctuated by a cluster of poplar trees. With an isolated foreground of trees on a rocky outcrop, a middleground...

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is pleased to share with fellow art enthusiasts our research into a particularly fine Edwin Holgate painting and accompanying drawing, which we offered for sale.

Read about an extremely rare Morrice painting of Montreal, sold by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery. Text by Lucie Dorais, author of the James Wilson Morrice Catalogue Raisonne.

The Dufferin Terrace in Quebec City is a well known tourist attraction. Named after Lord Dufferin, who was Governor of Canada from 1872 to 1878, it was built in 1838. From there, people have a breathtaking view of the Saint-Lawrence River, of the Île d’Orléans, and of the Traverse Québec-Lévis....

Reflecting on this past year at Alan Klinkhoff Gallery and Klinkhoff.ca , there are, for us, obvious highlights. One was the outstanding collection of Lawren Harris paintings we successfully offered for sale on behalf of an important private collector. We cannot over emphasise our gratitude to the owners of this...

2. The First Snowfall Willam behaved like children all over the world at the first snowfall. He became giddy with excitement and held his mouth open to catch the first big, juicy flakes, slowly spiraling downward.

''If we knock down all our old buildings and neighbourhoods we'll become a people without a past.'' - John Little, 1961

'Not surprisingly, her [Laura Muntz Lyall] paintings were consistently in demand by patrons in Canada, and, despite the number of talented artists who then portrayed women and children, she was considered the most important painter of children at the time' — Joan Murray

An extraordinary early and Group period work by Arthur Lismer that depicts the Bon Echo Rock on Mazinaw Lake. In size and immediacy, the quickly executed sketch entitled, Bon Echo, c. 1921-22, is a descriptive and emotional testament to the grandeur and natural beauty of the Bon Echo Rock.

This exhibition will be the first authorized tribute to Little's career, and the opening in Toronto will mark the first time an important presentation of his work will be seen in that city. Although he has always preferred to remain out of the limelight, we are grateful for his encouragement...