Lawren Harris Sells for $3.5-Million

This 30-by-38 centimetre painting was a sketch for one of Harris’s most important works, “North Shore, Lake Superior,” which hangs in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

It sold at Heffel’s Fine Art auction for $3.5 million, the second-highest price ever paid for a painting in Canada.

“Lawren Harris was one of the truly great North American painters of the first half of the 20th century and Harris deserves the values that we see at auction,” said Robert Heffel, who runs the auction company with his brother David Heffel

Source:  Heffel Fine Art News Release Nov. 26, 2009