Past Auction Highlights
This page provides details on a selection of works of art sold through past Cowley Abbott Canadian Art auctions or through the private sale process. Select an artwork for more details. All posted prices include Buyer's Premium.
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
The Green House
oil on panel
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 in ( 21.6 x 26.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $40,000.00
Price Realized $33,600.00
Sale date: November 27th 2024
ROBERT BATEMAN
Cheetah on the Mara
acrylic on board
signed and dated 2000 lower right
11.75 x 18 ins ( 29.8 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $21,240.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
MAUD LEWIS
Two Oxen Hauling Logs
mixed media on board
signed lower right
11.5 x 13.25 in ( 29.2 x 33.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $35,000.00
Price Realized $36,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
PETER CLAPHAM SHEPPARD
Painting Muskoka Rapids (Self Portrait)
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated 1932 with the artist’s estate stamp on the reverse
13 x 16 ins ( 33 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $20,400.00
Sale date: July 20th 2021
DAVID BROWN MILNE
Soft Hills (Misty Hill) (Boston Corners, N.Y.)
watercolour
Catalogue Raisonne Number 107.89 (circa June, 1917); titled “Soft Hills” (crossed out) by Patsy Milne and dated 1917 on the reverse
15 x 22.5 ins ( 38.1 x 57.2 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00
Price Realized $112,100.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Near the Banks of the South Saskatchewan River, Alberta
oil on board
signed lower right
10.5 x 13.5 ins ( 26.7 x 34.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $26,400.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
GEORGE AGNEW REID
Toronto Waterfront, 1886
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1886 lower left
24 x 36 ins ( 61 x 91.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $216,000.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
October Morning, Épisy (1909)
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1909 and inscribed “810”, “2158”, “Exhibited at Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Liverpool”, “No. 1” and “His Frame” (struck) on the stretcher; titled and inscribed “Owned by EJ Jackson, Lethbridge” on a label on the stretcher
21.5 x 25.5 ins ( 54.6 x 64.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $90,000.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Evening, Mount Robson from Berg Lake
oil on panel
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1914 and inscribed in stencil “S. Walter Stewart” with an unfinished landscape sketch on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $22,800.00
Sale date: June 24th 2021
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Drawn to Places: Landscapes on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- Canadian Prints & Drawings (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- Refocus: Important Photography from Canadian Collections (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- Unbound Forms: Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 22, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2025
- Works from the Estate of William Ronald (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2025
- Artwork from a Canadian Corporate Collection (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2025
- Banting to Blackwood: A Century of Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2025
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2025
- Select Masterworks of Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: May 28, 2025
- The Chaki Collection: A Collector’s Dialogue (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 13, 2025
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 13, 2025
- British & Continental Artworks (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 13, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Past and Present: International Art from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 22, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- In the Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- The Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 25, 2025
- Drawn to Places: Landscapes on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- A Modern Eye: Canadian Art from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Abstract vs. Figural: Prints from the Collection of Robert Noakes (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Artwork from the Estate of Jaan Poldaas (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 25, 2025
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 28, 2025
- Photography from the Collection of Salah Bachir (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Holiday Sale (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 10, 2024
- Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art
- Sale Closed: November 27, 2024
- Canadian Abstraction (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Works for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 19, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)_
- Sale Closed: October 22, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Picasso & His Contemporaries (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- International Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Mousseau and Friends (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 24, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 20, 2024
- Books & Reference: From the Library of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Grand Tour (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 23, 2024
- The Artwork of Sir Frederick Banting (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Works from the Estate of William Ronald (Part II) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- First Nations & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 25, 2024
- Spring Live Auction (Session 1 & 2)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2024
- The Group of Seven (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Modern & Contemporary International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- Works from the Estate of Dennis Reid (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Artwork of David Blackwood (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 21, 2024
- The Academy (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Modern Forms (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- Capture (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 23, 2024
- International Prints, Multiples & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Auction of Donated Artwork for Fundraising) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- La belle province (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 26, 2024
- Canadian Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- Watercolours & Drawings (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- En plein air (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 27, 2024
- 20th Century Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 23, 2024
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