Canadian Fine Art
Waddington’s has been a major force in the Canadian art market for over five decades, beginning with our first auction of Canadian Fine Art held at the Queen Elizabeth Building at the CNE in 1967. Since then we have offered countless important and major Canadian works of art, set record prices and are regarded as the source for buying and selling exceptional Canadian Art.
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Editions
Auction begins to close:
May 01, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET
On View:
Sunday, April 27 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Monday, April 28 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Tuesday, April 29 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
This auction features a collection of prints by renowned Canadian and international artists including Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, David Blackwood, General Idea, Dana Claxton, Henry Moore, Jim Dine, Rembrandt, Damien Hirst, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland. Featured works include geometric studies by Josef Albers, Jean Paul Riopelle’s Étée Indien, woodcuts by Sybil Andrews, Greg Curnoe’s 1980 screenprint Doc Morton Front Wheel, Joan Mitchell’s Bedford I, and 76 prints from Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra suite from 1863.
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987), American
LIZ, 1964 [F&S. II.7]
Estimate: $70,000—90,000
Major Spring Auction: Canadian & International Fine Art
Auction begins to close:
May 29, 2025 at 8:00 pm ET
Our major spring auction features an exceptional collection of important works by noted Canadian and international artists including Frederick Banting, Jack Bush, Clarence Gagnon, William Kurelek, Jean Paul Lemieux, J.W. Morrice, William Perehudoff, Takao Tanabe, Bernard Buffet, Jean Dufy, Francisco Zúñiga, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski, and many more.
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Jack Hamilton Bush, OSA, ARCA (1909-1977), Canadian
SOLO SOPRANO #1, 1975
Estimate: $125,000—175,000
Modern, Post-War & Contemporary Art
Auction begins to close:
June 26, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET
On View:
Sunday, June 22 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Monday, June 23 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Tuesday, June 24 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
We are currently accepting consignments for this auction.
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Wolf Kahn (1927-2020), German/American
COLONIAL HOUSE IN PUTNEY, VT, 1979
Estimate: $5,000—8,000
Seeking Consignments
We are accepting consignments of Canadian art for our upcoming auctions. Below is a short list of artists we are actively seeking. Please contact us to discuss consignment opportunities of works by these or other artists in your collection.
- Alex Colville
- BC Binning
- Christopher Pratt
- Claude Tousignant
- David Blackwood
- David Milne
- E.J. Hughes
- Emily Carr
- Franklin Carmichael
- Frederick Varley
- Helen McNicoll
- Jack Bush
- James Wilson Morrice
- Jean Paul Lemieux
- Jean Paul Riopelle
- Kazuo Nakamura
- Lawren Harris
- Marcelle Ferron
- Mary Pratt
- Michael Snow
- Oscar Cahén
- Paul-Emile Borduas
- Prudence Heward and members of the Beaver Hall Group
- Rita Letendre
- Sybil Andrews
- Takao Tanabe
- Tom Thomson
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Liz Edwards
Director, Canadian Fine Art

Kendra Popelas
Consignment Specialist

Holly Yake
Fine Art Administrator