(Montreal) Maison Heffel will auction seven paintings by Jean Paul Riopelle in November, including “a masterpiece estimated at between 3 and 5 million”.
Heffel’s fall auction, on November 23, will also offer works by Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Henry Moore and Andy Warhol, a press release indicates. According to Heffel, sales of the 94 lots on offer “should total between 13 and 20 million.”
Among the seven works by Riopelle offered this fall, Heffel particularly highlights Untitled (Composition
Borduas’s painting Miniatures empressées (1955), estimated at around $1 million, will also be on sale. By Andy Warhol, two “iconic portraits”, of Queen Elizabeth II and Mick Jagger, will also be on sale.
Also on offer will be two large paintings by Guido Molinari, works by sculptor Henry Moore, paintings by James Wilson Morrice and works by Lawren Harris, A. J. Casson and A. Y. Jackson of the Group of Seven.
Collectors and art lovers were able to view the works in Calgary and Vancouver in September and October; they will be in Montreal from November 2 to 8, then in Toronto from November 15 to 22. The auction, in person, online and remotely, will take place from Toronto on November 23.
