Canadian artworks yield $7.8M at auction

"A Sotheby's Canadian art auction of painters, including works by Jean Paul Lemieux, Alex Colville and Jack Bush, fetched more than $7.8 million Monday evening, against pre-sale estimates as low as $4.7 million, at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

The Lemieux canvas Country Club, which had attracted much pre-sale interest during the Sotheby’s preview at the Arsenal in Montreal, surpassed expectations when it was sold for $1,095,000 against a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  CBC News
On:  11/29/11
Website:  http://www.cbc.ca

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