Artist: Allan (Arthur) Rutherford Wilber
Title: SHIPS IN THE MOONLIGHT
Medium: oil on canvas, relined
Dimensions: 23.5 x 39 in. (59.7 x 99 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 256
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Ruth Mary Eliot
Title: FARM BY THE LAKE
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Notes:
initialed
Provenance: Collector’s Gallery, Calgary; Estate of the artist
Note: Ruth Mary Eliot, who often painted with A. Y. Jackson, notes that there is a sketch by Jackson verso.
LOT: 255
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: British School
Title: PETER THE GREAT, TSAR OF RUSSIA
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 34.5 x 28.5 in. (87.5 x 72.4 cm)
Notes:
ote: This painting is one of many inspired by the original portrait, found in The Royal Collection, and painted in 1698 by British artist Sir Godfrey Kneller at the time of Peter the Great’s visit to England.
LOT: 252
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Unidentified Italian Artist
Title: BAPTISM
Medium: watercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions: 15.25 x 19.5 in. (38.7 x 49.5 cm)
Notes:
monogrammed
LOT: 251
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Hans van Meegeren
Title: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN HELMET
Date: 1945
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 27 x 19.75 in. (68.2 x 50.2 cm)
Notes:
signed & dated verso
Note: Hans van Meegeren is a notorious forger whose works have hung in museums around the world. This work is a copy of a painting in the Berlin Museum long considered to be one of Rembrandt’s masterpieces but de-attributed in 1985. The date and signature were likely added later, during Meegeren’s 1945 trial for conspiracy and forgery.
LOT: 250
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Ken Harrison
Title: 52 CHEV WITH SASKATCHEWAN PLATES
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 249
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Joseph R. Pearce
Title: THE WILDCAT
Date: 2005
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 248
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Tanya Kirouac
Title: FROM HERE
Medium: encaustic on board
Dimensions: 12 x 36 in. (30.5 x 91.4 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 247
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Claude Girard
Title: PAYSAGE TRANSLUCIDE ET GRANDIOSE
Medium: mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 246
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Bob Pokiak-Taylor
Title: GEESE AND WHALES
Medium: carved antler and bone with stone and dried grass accents
Dimensions: 8.5 x 16 x 13.5 in. (21.6 x 40.6 x 34.3 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 245
Auction: 2008 June | Hodgins Art Auctions