The last seven months have introduced challenges, as well as opportunities, neither we nor others could have anticipated

We are proud to announce a selection of recent sales.

It almost seems laughable that a populist comedy festival would have not just one, but two, iconic artists twirling in the strands of its DNA, but such is indeed the case with the Montreal-based, worldwide-influential Just For Laughs. One was the late Vittorio Fiorucci, a mischievous, rabble-rousing goblin of a...

The A.Y. Jackson “Sugar Shanty” painted near his brother Harry’s farm at St. Aubert in Quebec’s L’Islet is a particularly fine composition of the 1940s.

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery presents Claude Le Sauteur & the World of Laughter , an exhibition dedicated to Claude Le Sauteur’s historic collaboration with the world-renowned Just For Laughs Festival.

A.Y. Jackson ends his memoirs, A Painter's Country, with his move away from the famous Studio Building that Lawren Harris had built for the use of his artist friends in Toronto. A.Y. built a comfortable little house on a hill at Manotick, a few miles south of Ottawa, close to...

Our intentions here are to offer our ideas as to areas of study we think pertinent to a larger study of Philip Surrey, optimistically by a team of trained art historians. Our contribution is a personal one, written from the perspective of one who was acquainted with Philip Surrey, visited...

Reopening is perhaps a misnomer. Throughout the past several weeks, while the doors were closed, the portal at Klinkhoff.ca has remained open 24/7. Due to the investments in our digital platform and the support Jonathan, Craig and I offer from our home offices, it has never been easier for you...

I never met LAWREN HARRIS. His wife Bess had taken charge of his business affairs although all his paintings had been incorporated in a trust for the benefit of his sons from his first wife.

On May 7, 1920, the first exhibition of the Group of Seven opened at the Art Museum of Toronto (today the Art Gallery of Ontario). On May 7, 2020 we will celebrate the centenary with a dedicated presentation including for sale an outstanding selection of more than 30 paintings by...

In 1947, Fred Taylor was living on Oxenden, a street renamed as Aylmer, located not a great distance from Inspector St. Taylor was of a social and political consciousness. It is significant that in this work, he highlights three tiers of society; the working citizens, the power and influence of...

The title could be Impression, Dufferin Terrace, a fleeting moment captured at sunset. The Terrace, Québec City's outdoor salon, overlooks the basse-ville and the St. Lawrence river, with Lévis across, and Ile d'Orléans to the left. Morrice... Read more.

These important works, represented herein, represent a mature evolution of Lismer’s focus beginning some time after his return from west Africa in 1935. It is due to the generosity of Mom and Dad that Helen and I have three Lismer canvases in our home.

Morrice spent his whole working life in Paris, travelling endlessly to find new subjects. Hundreds of drawings and small sketches on wooden panels tell us what he saw, but not how he got there....Read more.

Since it's earliest days, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) has historically had a large footprint in the development of art in Canada. It is precisely and exclusively the CPR’s concept of promoting business in their hotels by organizing music and craft festivals that brought Arthur Lismer to the Rockies in...

Tom Thomson’s oil sketches were almost all painted in front of the motif and worked up into canvases during the winter in Toronto. The change of scale between the small sketch and large canvas posed new challenges and as sketches fed his canvases, the painting of the canvases also brought...

Emily Carr was one of Canada’s most innovative artists of the first half of the twentieth century. After periods of study in San Francisco, England and France, in 1912 Carr made a major trip to Alert Bay, the Skeena River and Haida Gwaii visiting Kwakwaka’wakw, Gitxsan and Haida villages. The...

If we compare Tribute to Tom Thomson with Thomson’s masterpiece The Jack Pine, we can see there is much that is similar. It is one artist's rendition of what there was about The Jack Pine that he admired. He chose to select the time of day as late afternoon or...

Respecting the mandated health protocols and to protect our community, our physical galleries are closed. This closure implies the cancellation of our Montreal gallery vernissage and exhibition of The Collection of Mitzi & Mel Dobrin.

In spite of his all too brief career (approximately five years), Tom Thomson’s paintings left an indelible mark on Canadian art of the first half of the twentieth century. The remarkable history of his life and early death and the myths that developed around him inspired a whole generation of...