TORONTO - Paintings by Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and Emily Carr are among the highlights at tonight's Sotheby's Canada spring sale of Important Canadian Art.
A total of 197 lots are in the Sotheby's sale in Toronto, including Thomson's "Early Snow, Algonquin Park" (estimated at $450,000 to $650,000) and Harris's "Eskimo Tent, Pangnirtung, Baffin Island II" (estimated at $100,000 to $150,000).
Carr's "Wooden Doll," a small oil-on-panel depicting a doll with a missing leg, is estimated at $30,000 to $50,000.
The real-life doll that inspired the piece recently surfaced when it was donated to the archives in Victoria.
An untitled work by Jean-Paul Riopelle, which was painted and signed in 1954, has a pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million.
