US Edition‘Cream’ of Hudson’s Bay art collection to be auctioned off today
The auction includes 27 prized paintings from Hudson’s Bay Company, featuring a Winston Churchill oil valued at up to $600,000, reflecting Canadian history and culture.
- This afternoon in Toronto's Yorkville, Heffel Fine Art Auction House is hosting a live ballroom sale drawing art lovers and historians to bid on paintings from the shuttered, centuries‑old Hudson's Bay Company, with expanded online viewers expected.
- After the retailer's collapse, Heffel Fine Art Auction House is selling remaining pieces in online auctions stretching well into next year, many commissioned for HBC calendars from 1913 to 1970.
- Among highlights are Winston Churchill's oil of Marrakech valued between $400,000 and $600,000, Frederic Marlett Bell‑Smith's Toronto street scene, wartime works by William von Moll Berczy, and over a dozen pieces by W.J. Phillips and Frank Johnston.
- Auction house head David Heffel said the sale is a `watershed moment` with `unprecedented interest, competition and participation`, while all blankets and most art have garnered bids.
- Heffel will run online auctions, with the first concluding next month, while HBC is expected to ask a court on Friday to let Reflect Advisors sell the royal charter later this month, starting bids at $18 million.
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Paintings from Hudson's Bay collection auctioned in Toronto
The future homes of 27 pieces of Hudson's Bay history were auctioned in Toronto on Nov. 19 as art lovers, collectors and historians gathered to watch some valuable Canadian artwork come up for sale. Record prices were being recorded within the first few sales and multiple bidders vied for several of the paintings.
Auction of Hudson's Bay art gets off to buzzy start in Toronto
TORONTO — A painting by Winston Churchill sold for $1.3 million at an auction in Toronto on Wednesday, the highest price so far for one of 27 works of art previously owned by the defunct Hudson's Bay Co.
Several paintings belonging to the late department store, including Churchill's, were coveted.
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