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| Tom Thomson Oil Sketch Sells for just under $1Million | |
Tom Thomson’s oil sketch Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks painted in Algonquin Park sold for $934,000. (including buyers premium) at Ritchies Fine Art auction held in Toronto on Monday November 20, 2006, which is a record breaking price for a Thomson oil sketch. This oil on panel measures only 8 ½” x 10 ½”. A limited collector edition of this image is included in our Images of Canada™ Collection – The Cameo© and Collector’s Choice. Before Thomson’s untimely death in 1917 he produced about two dozen canvases, which include some of his enduring national icons such as Northern River and the Jack Pine, and over three hundred small panels painted in oil – oil sketches, as they are usually called. |
 Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks Courtesy Ritchies Fine Art Auctions |
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| Emily Carr Establishes Record Price | |
 Young Tree in Surging Growth, an oil painting on paper sold for $520,000. establishing a record price for a work on paper by Emily Carr. In 2004, Emily Carr’s Quiet, an oil painting on canvas sold for $1,121,250. |
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Source: The Toronto Star, November 21, 2006 |
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