Cowley Abbott (Consignor Canadian Fine Art)

Cowley Abbott’s Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian and International Art achieved strong results last night at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto.

An important private collection of rare, museum-quality and prime example Canadian artworks will go under the auction hammer on Thursday.

One of Canada’s preeminent, most-well known and extensively-exhibited private collections of historical Canadian art has become the highest-grossing single private collection of Canadian art to ever sell at auction, achieving $36.6 million and setting 29 artist records.

Rare and important artworks from several prominent private and public collections will go under the auction hammer in Cowley Abbott’s fall auction of Canadian and international masters on Wednesday, December 6. 

Canada’s art market at auction continues to demonstrate high demand, with enthusiastic bidding driving strong sales at Cowley Abbott’s two-session Spring Live Auction event last night totaling $16M (all results are inclusive of the buyer’s premium).

The second part of the two-session live auction is devoted entirely to the second of three landmark sales of one of Canada’s preeminent, largest and most exhibited private collections of historical Canadian art.

One of Canada’s preeminent, largest and most exhibited private collections of historical Canadian art went under the hammer last night at Cowley Abbott’s Fall Live Auction event in Toronto.

One of Canada’s preeminent, largest and most exhibited private collections of historical Canadian art will go under the hammer in a special series of three landmark live auction events held by Cowley Abbott.

The work is from Bowie’s Dead Heads series, which includes portraits of his friends, family members, and bandmates.

A distinctive painting by music icon David Bowie garnered international headlines for its unique discovery and drew a bidding frenzy at Cowley Abbott’s Online Auction of International Art.

The sale price blew past auction house Cowley Abbott's estimated $7,000 to $10,000 valuation of the work

A painting by David Bowie purchased last summer at a donation centre in rural Ontario for $5 is expected to fetch upward of $12,000 at auction this coming week.

Behind every work of art that goes to auction is a story of its ownership; some are straight-forward and others are unique, revealing a new perspective to the artwork. Many of the lots included in Cowley Abbott’s Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art carry a...