Ink on paper, featuring Chinese calligraphy of poem, signed Mai Zheng (Chinese Canadian, b.1932), inscribed with 2 artist seals, dated 2013, 135 x 35 cm. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink on paper roll, featuring Chinese calligraphy in semi-cursive script, signed and attr. Rao Zongyi (Chinese, 1917-2018), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 138 x 46 cm. Rao Zongyi was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and scholar known for his expertise on Chinese culture. Born Jao Tsung-I on August 9, 1917 in Chaozhou, China, he was mostly taught by his family rather than through any formal education. Despite this, he became a versatile and profoundly knowledgeable scholar, teaching musicology, archaeology, and art history, among other subjects. Rao worked as a lecturer and researcher in mainland China before moving to Hong Kong in 1949. He was widely known for his work as a scholar, and held lectures in Japan, France, and the United States. The artist’s most celebrated publications include Oracle Bone Diviners of the Yin Dynasty and a translation of the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish. In 1997, Rao was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The artist died at the age of 100, on February 6, 2018 in Hong Kong, China. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink on paper roll, featuring Chinese calligraphy Ji Xiang Fu Gui (auspicious and prosperous), signed and attr. Wu Zhongqi (Chinese, 1907-2006), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 133 x 34 cm. Wu Zhongqi was a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1907. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Calligraphy' sold at Poly International Auction Co. 'Modern Chinese Painting & Calligraphy III' in 2015 for $74,121. The artist died in 2006. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink on paper roll, featuring Chinese calligraphy in regular script, signed and attr. Zheng Xiaoxu (Chinese, 1860-1938), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 28 x 33 cm. Zheng Xiaoxu was a Chinese diplomat and calligrapher who notably collaborated with the Japanese government in an attempt at restoring the Qing dynasty. Born on April 2, 1860 in Suzhou, China, he passed the imperial examinations in 1882, and began working for Puyi the last Emperor of China. In 1912, when the Republic of China was established, he refused to serve the republic and retired from his high-level position. After relocating to Shanghai, he began to develop a deeper interest in calligraphy and poetry. During the late 1920s, Zheng worked with both Chinese and Japanese forces interested in securing the restoration of Qing rule. Zheng later played an important role in the establishment of the Japanese-sponsored state of Manchukuo in the Manchuria region of China, where he served as the country’s first prime minister. Despite this appointment, Zheng often clashed with the Japanese, who eventually pressured him into resigning his post in 1935. He died on March 28, 1938 in Hsinking, Manchukuo (present-day Changchun, China). PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring Chinese calligraphy, signed and attr. Yu Youren (Chinese, 1879-1964), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 29 x 117 cm. Yu Youren was a Chinese scholar and politician remembered as a master of Chinese calligraphy, distinguished by its animated characters. Born on April 11, 1879 in Hedaogang, China, Yu studied at a number of universities throughout the country as a young man. In the early part of his career, he wrote poems expressing frustration with the current government, and was branded as a revolutionary. In 1906, Yu fled to Japan, where he became part of the underground resistance movement known as the Tongmenghui. After returning to China a year later, he founded The National Herald, and, later, The People’s Voice, which strongly criticized the government. He spent the next several years in and out of jail, and continued to establish subversive publications. After a brief stint as a leader of the revolutionary forces in his native region, Yu settled in Shanghai and established Shanghai University. During the 1930s and 1940s, Yu compiled examples of Chinese characters into the essay Thousand Character Essay in Standard Cursive Script. In 1949, Yu followed the Chinese Nationalist government to Taiwan, where he later received the first National Literary Award. He died on November 10, 1964 in Taipei, Taiwan. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Pair of Chinese calligraphy on paper, hanging scroll, signed and attr. Ji Yun (Chinese, 1724-1805) and inscribed with 2 artist seals, 134 x 32.5 cm. Ji Yun , also known as Ji Xiaolan was an influential scholar of Qing dynasty China and many anecdotes have been recorded about him. Ji Yun left behind a book entitled Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations, and another book named Wenda Gong Yiji (Collected Works of Lord Wenda, i.e. Ji Xiaolan), which was edited by later generations.

Ink and watercolour on fan. Featuring horses along with Chinese script calligraphy. Signed and attr. Ni Tian (Chinese, 1855-1919) and inscribed with artist seals on both sides; carved floral sprays in low relief on fan guards. H: 32 cm, 54 grams. Born as Baotian, courtesy name Mogeng, sobriquet as Modaoren and Biyuehezhu, Ni Tian was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty and early years of the Chinese Republic Period

Ink on paper, featuring two birds on rock, signed and attr. Ding Yanyong (Chinese, 1902-1978), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 70 x 34 cm. Ding Yanyong was a Chinese painter credited with bringing the aesthetics of Western art to his country. Often referred to as the Matisse of the East, Ding’s paintings merged Chinese and Western styles to achieve a harmony of the two traditions. Born on April 15, 1902 in Maoming, China, his father taught him Chinese poetry as a child and encouraged his artistic talent. Ding was among the first Chinese artists who went to Japan to study Western painting in the early decades of the 20th century. He attended the Tokyo School of Fine Arts between 1919 and 1925. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Ding adopted the individualist attitudes of the Chinese literati and individualist traditions, while also delving into the ancient calligraphy. Ding was particularly influenced by the works of 17th-century artist Bada Shanren. In 1949, he moved to Hong Kong, where he continued to teach and produce art until his death in 1978. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper, featuring mountainous landscape, signed and attr. Huang Junbi (Chinese, 1898-1991), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 84 x 34 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper, featuring garden Wangshi Yuan, signed and attr. Pan Zhiliang (Chinese, unknown DOB), inscribed with 3 artist seals, 34 x 43 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper, featuring pomegranate, signed and attr. Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864-1957), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 68 x 35 cm. Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper, featuring bird and flower, signed and attr. Zhao Shaoang (Chinese, 1905-1998), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 30 x 38 cm

Ink and watercolour on paper. Featuring two paintings of a landscape scene. Signed and attr. Qian Songyan (Chinese, 1899-1985) and inscribed with 2 artist seals. 18 x 26.8 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring Laozi, signed and attr. Ban Yuesheng (Chinese, b. 1948), inscribed with 4 artist seals, 93 x 52 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring rooster, signed and attr. Chen Dayu (Chinese, 1912-2001), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 68 x 44 cm. Chen Dayu was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and seal carver, best known for his depictions of roosters. Born on May 21, 1912 in Chaoyang, China, Chen studied under Wang Geyi at the Shanghai Art College, graduating in 1935. In 1946, Chen moved to Beijing, and began working as an apprentice for the revered painter Qi Baishi. During the 1980s, the artist was included in exhibitions at both the Jiangsu Museum of Art and the Shanghai Museum of Art. Chen died on June 1, 2001 in Nanjing, China. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring Guanyin, signed and attr. Deng Fen (Chinese, 1894-1964), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 45 x 31.5 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring pike fish and dragonfly, signed and attr. Gao Qifeng (Chinese, 1889-1933), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 117 x 34 cm. Gao Jianfu was a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1881. Gao Jianfu has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Macao Museum of Art and at the National Palace Museum. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'THE PEACOCK' sold at China Guardian Auctions, Hong Kong 'Chinese Painting & Calligraphy from the Four Seas' in 2017 for $454,181. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring boy on water buffalo, signed and attr. Li Keran (Chinese, 1907-1989), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 68 x 44 cm. Li Keran was a Chinese painter known for his depictions of landscapes using both traditional and experimental techniques. “Delve into tradition with the utmost dedication and then break away from it with the utmost courage,” he once proclaimed. Born Li Yongshun on March 26, 1907 in Xuzhou, China, he attended classes in which both traditional Chinese painting and Western painting were taught, going on to study under Andre Claudot at the Hangzhou National Art College. In 1946, Li was asked to join the faculty of the Beijing National Art College, where his colleagues included the revered artists Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong. Li went on to publish the influential essay On the Reform of Chinese Painting in the first issue of Art (Meishu), the magazine of the Chinese Artists’ Association. In the essay, he advocated for artists to immerse themselves in the lives of ordinary people. Though he experienced a significant amount of criticism during the Cultural Revolution, Li continued to create landscapes using his hybrid style merging East and West. The artist died on December 5, 1989 in Beijing, China. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in Canada, and the National Museum of China in Beijing, among others. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring cranes and plum flower, signed Lu Jin (Chinese, modern artist), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 28 x 40 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring mountainous landscape and waterfall, signed and attr. Puru (Chinese, 1896-1963), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 96 x 37 cm. Pu Ru was a traditional Chinese painter and calligrapher and cousin of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China. Pu’s work consisted of themes meant to symbolize contemplation, including landscapes, garden stones, and poems. Born Pu Xinyu on August 30, 1896 in Beijing, China, as a member of the Manchu royal family he was able to study astronomy and biology at the University of Berlin. After returning to China, he spent many years in the mountains at the Jie Tai Monastery to perfect his calligraphy and painting techniques. Following the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, when the communist forces came to power, he fled to Taiwan, where he made a living selling his work. In 1949, he was appointed a professor at National Taiwan Normal University. In spite of his Western education, he advocated for traditional Chinese painting. In 1959, he held a comprehensive exhibition of his works at the National Museum of History in Taipei. The artist died on November 18, 1963 in Taipei, Taiwan. Today, Pu’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Long Museum in Shanghai, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring standing Guanyin, signed and attr. Ren Zhong (Chinese, b.1976), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 128 x 65 cm. Ren Zhong is a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1976. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Eighty Seven Immortals' sold at Poly International Auction Co. 'Essence of Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings Evening Sale' in 2013 for $721,649. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink on paper, featuring village landscape, signed and attr. Wu Guanzhong (Chinese, 1919-2010), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 42 x 55 cm. Wu Guanzhong was a Chinese artist known for landscapes that combined traditional Eastern ink wash drawing with Western oil painting. His willingness to teach Western art techniques made him the target of political oppression during the Cultural Revolution, constricting his creative output until the 1980s when he was again free to paint works like Pine Spirit (1984). “Art is like a kite,” he once mused. “You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.” Born on August 29, 1919 in Jiangsu Province, China, he traveled to Paris to study on scholarship at the École nationale supérieur des Beaux-Arts in 1947. His time in France inspired him, and he left having gleaned formal ideas from Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent van Gogh. He was the first living Chinese artist to be given a solo show at London’s British Museum in 1992. Wu died on June 25, 2010 in Beijing, China at the age of 90. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS, the National Gallery Singapore, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. 992. Wu died on June 25, 2010 in Beijing, China at the age of 90. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring mountainous landscape, signed and attr. Wu Hufan (Chinese, 1894-1968), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 170 x 46 cm. Wu Hufan was a leading traditional painter, known as a collector and connoisseur, as well as for his landscape works. Born in Suzhou in the Jiangsu province, Wu was the grandson of calligrapher and painter Wu Dacheng, and, from a young age, was able to study the works of masters such as the "Four Wangs" of the Qing dynasty.

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring cockfight scene, signed and attr. Xu Lele (Chinese, b.1955), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 32.5 x 131 cm. Xu Lele is a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1955. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'TWELVE BEAUTIES OF JINLING' sold at Beijing ChengXuan Auctions Co., Ltd 'Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy - Part II' in 2012 for $267,155. There have been many articles about Xu Lele, including 'Emin’s Messy Bed Shattering Record Shows Female Art Surge' written by Mary Romano for Bloomberg in 2014. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper roll, featuring rooster and bamboo, signed and attr. Yang Shanshen (Chinese, 1913-2004), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 160 x 35 cm. Yang Shanshen was a Chinese artist known for his flower-and-bird paintings. His use of atmospheric blurs set off by graphic lines, are hallmark elements of his work. Born in 1913 in Chiqi, China, he was influenced by Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng as a youth. In 1936, Yang traveled to Japan, where he attended the Domoto Art Institute in Kyoto and studied under Insho Domoto. In 1970, he received an honorary degree from the Chinese Academic Research Institute in Taiwan, and in 1981, the Hong Kong Museum of Art presented the solo exhibition “The Art of Yang Shanshen.” The artist died on May 15, 2004 in Hong Kong. Today, Yang’s works are held in the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring girl on water buffalo, signed and attr. Cheng Shifa (Chinese, 1921-2007), inscribed with 3 artist seals, 75 x 49 cm. Cheng Shifa was a Chinese painter best known for his works depicting figures, landscapes, and flowers. His eclectic style merged traditional Chinese wash techniques with Western drawing aesthetics. Born in 1921 in Songjiang, China, Cheng graduated from the Shanghai School of Art in 1941. In 1950, the East China People’s Art Publishing House in Shanghai employed him to produce book serial illustrations. His illustrations of the English version of the novel The Scholars won him a silver medal at the Leipzig International Book Fair in 1959. Though he had a successful career as an illustrator, Cheng is best remembered for his brush paintings of ethnic groups from Yunnan, a southwestern province that borders Vietnam, Laos, and Burma. The artist died on June 17, 2007 in Shanghai, China. Today, his works are held in the collections of the China Art Museum in Shanghai and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring Zhong Kui and ghost, signed and attr. Fan Zeng (Chinese, b.1936), inscribed with 3 artist seals, 135 x 68 cm. Fan Zeng is contemporary Chinese artist known for his mastery of traditional Chinese painting techniques. His works fuse elements of landscape, flower-and-bird, and figure painting, as well as forms of poetry and calligraphy. Born on July 5, 1938 in Nantong, China, he attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied painting under Wu Zuoren, Li Keran, Jiang Zhaohe, and Li Kuchan. The artist notably went on to live between his home country and France, where he notably painted a portrait of Charles de Gaulle. He held solo exhibitions in Japan throughout the 1980s, and participated in various exhibitions in Asia. In addition, he has received numerous awards in design and painting. He became a professor of Eastern Art at Nankai University, and was made department head in 1993. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing, China. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring mountainous landscape and man with carrying pole, signed and attr. Feng Zikai (Chinese, 1898-1975), inscribed with 1 artist seal, with certificate issued by Lanting Art Identification Center in China, 52 x 39 cm

Ink and watercolour on paper; hanging scroll. Featuring landscape scene of forest and figures. Signed and attr. Fu Baoshi and inscribed with two artist seal. 110 x 57 cm. Fu Baoshi was a Chinese painter known for both his depictions of landscapes and figures. In his devotion towards painting landscapes, Fu expressed himself with distinctive brushstrokes and splattered marks. During his career, Fu’s subject matter changed from traditionally dressed figures in misty forests to power lines and airports. Born on October 5, 1904 in Xinyu, China, he studied the History of Oriental Art at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts as a young man. Fu’s time in Japan led him to incorporate a number of Japanese elements into his traditional Chinese ink paintings. After returning to China, Fu taught in the Art Department of Central University. During this time, Mao Zedong’s communist regime emphasized the need for the modernization of traditional styles for the masses to understand. Fu began integrating foreign influences into his works, seeking to revive the use of traditional painting techniques. He developed a reputation as a skilled figure painter, and was acclaimed as the leader of the New Chinese Painting Movement, which sought to reform traditional artistic styles in China. The artist died on September 29, 1965 in Nanjing, China. Today, Fu’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Long Museum in Shanghai, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. PROVENANCE: Acquired by the current owner in Nagoya, Japan (Circa 1980).

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring bathing women, signed and attr. Fu Xiaoshi (Chinese, 1932-2016), son of Fu Baoshi, inscribed with 2 artist seals, 64 x 45 cm. Fu Baoshi was a Chinese painter known for both his depictions of landscapes and figures. In his devotion towards painting landscapes, Fu expressed himself with distinctive brushstrokes and splattered marks. During his career, Fu’s subject matter changed from traditionally dressed figures in misty forests to power lines and airports. Born on October 5, 1904 in Xinyu, China, he studied the History of Oriental Art at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts as a young man. Fu’s time in Japan led him to incorporate a number of Japanese elements into his traditional Chinese ink paintings. After returning to China, Fu taught in the Art Department of Central University. During this time, Mao Zedong’s communist regime emphasized the need for the modernization of traditional styles for the masses to understand. Fu began integrating foreign influences into his works, seeking to revive the use of traditional painting techniques. He developed a reputation as a skilled figure painter, and was acclaimed as the leader of the New Chinese Painting Movement, which sought to reform traditional artistic styles in China. The artist died on September 29, 1965 in Nanjing, China. Today, Fu’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Long Museum in Shanghai, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink and watercolour on paper; hanging scroll. Featuring Zhong Kui, vanquisher of ghosts in Chinese mythology; Signed and attr. Guan Liang (Chinese, 1900-1986) and inscribed with 1 artist seal. Dated 1978. 69 x 42 cm. Guan Liang was a Chinese painter known for his use of Western painting techniques. His clumsy yet balanced landscapes were noted for their color relationships and compositional structure. “I generally apply color lightly, and mix it directly on the canvas. Simplicity is an element I strive for and I handle my subjects with reserve,” he once explained. Born in 1900 in Panyu, China, he traveled to Tokyo to study oil painting under Fujishima Takeji in 1917.  While in school, Guan was influenced by Western artists, including Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Vincent van Gogh. After returning to China, the artist held various teaching positions at the Shanghai Fine Arts School and the Hangzhou National College of Art. He had his first solo exhibition in Chengdu in 1940, displaying both his atmospheric landscapes and scenes from Beijing operas. The artist died in 1986 in Shanghai, China. Today, Guan’s works are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring two Uyghur women, signed and attr. Huang Zhou (Chinese, 1925-1997), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 96 x 51 cm. Huang Zhou was a modern Chinese artist, was originally named Liang Gantang. He was also known by the names of Liang Yezi, Miao Di, Liang Peng, and Liang Quan. Born in Lixian County, Hebei Province, he was apprenticed in his adolescence to artist Han Leran and Zhao Wangyun. Early in his career, he worked as an editor in the Soldiers’ Books Publishing House of the Northeast Military Region. In 1949, he joined the People’s Liberation Army and served as a staff artist of the Creative Unit in the Political Department at the Headquarters of PLA’s Northeast Military Region. In 1955, he was transferred as a staff artist to the General Political Department of the PLA in Beijing. In 1959, he became a staff painter at the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution. In 1981, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting. Huang was also a member of the CPPCC National Committee, a consultant to the Arts and Crafts Corporation under the former Ministry of Light Industry, and executive member of the council of the Chinese Artists Association. Masterpieces of Huang, like A Blizzard in the Wilderness, Celebrating the Harvest, On Patrol, Singing While Travelling, Pine and Eagle, One Hundred Donkeys, Lamb-grabbing Contest, and Chasing and Playing on the Steppe, represent innovative achievements in contemporary Chinese painting. His writings include Huang Zhou’s Views on Art and Huang Zhou’s Theories on Calligraphy and Painting. Not only was Huang an artist of the people, he was also a social activist who made outstanding contributions to the preservation and promotion of national art and to the advancement of public art education. He co-founded the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting with famous painters Li Keran, Cai Ruohong, and Hua Junwu and presided over the establishment of the Yan Huang Art Museum. His artistic practice and theory have exerted a significant influence on the development of contemporary art. Huang passed away in 1997.

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring standing horse under pine tree, signed and attr. Ma Jin (Chinese, 1900-1970), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 89 x 69 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring encountering immortal while playing Sheng (musical instrument), signed and attr. Qian Luxin (Chinese, Republic era), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 149 x 39 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring birds and morning glory, signed and attr. Wang Xuetao (Chinese, 1903-1982), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 135 x 34 cm. Wang Xuetao was a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1903. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'PEACOCK' sold at China Guardian Auctions, Beijing 'Grand View: Chinese Painting Highlight - Tongbo Studio Collection' in 2014 for $940,884. The artist died in 1982.

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring cranes, signed and attr. Wang Ziwu (Chinese, b.1936), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 107 x 50 cm. Wang Ziwu is a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1936. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'INNOVATIVE LINE' sold at China Guardian Auctions, Beijing '2011 Autumn Auctions: Contemporary Ink Painting' in 2011 for $923,999. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring a galloping horse, signed and attr. Xu Beihong (Chinese, 1895-1953), inscribed with 1 artist seal, with Taipei Palace Museum label, 138 x 62 cm. Xu Beihong was a Chinese painter best known for his traditional ink paintings of horses, birds, and landscapes. With a masterful command of his medium, the artist was able to achieve a sense of movement in just a few brushstrokes. Along with his more traditional ink washes, Xu also created large-scale oil paintings in a European academic style that depicted classic Chinese scenes and portraits. Born on July 19, 1895 in Yixing, China, Xu began to study ink painting when he was just six years old, and went on to study the ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a young man. The artist exhibited throughout Europe during his life, though he was an extreme opponent of the Modernist work he saw at the time. Today, Xu’s works are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum was established at his house after his death on September 26, 1953 in Beijing, China.

Watercolor and ink on blue background paper roll, featuring geese and peony, signed and attr. (Chinese, 1888-1959), inscribed with 2 artists seals, 171 x 45 cm

Watercolor and ink on paper, hanging scroll, featuring mountainous landscape and hermits, signed and attr. Zhang Daqian (Chinese, 1899-1983), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 129 x 63 cm. Zhang Daqian was a Chinese artist known for painting in traditional Eastern techniques while exploring the Western movements of Impressionism and Expressionism. His use of delicate brushstrokes and splashed color application, produced unique images of nature, as seen in his work Lotus (1963). He was also known for his forgeries of ancient Chinese masters, such as Shi Tao, Tang Yin, and Chen Hongshou. Born Zhang Yuan on May 10, 1899 in Neijiang, China, Zhang learned to paint flowers from his mother at a young age, going on to study traditional Chinese painting methods in Shanghai under Zeng Xi and Li Ruiqing. Over the course of his life Zhang travelled the world, even meeting Pablo Picasso during a 1956 visit to Nice, France. The artist died on April 2, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan at the age of 84. Today, Zhang’s home, known as the Zhang Daqian Residence, is a memorial to the artist maintained by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, his works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

Watercolor and ink on paper, long hand scroll, featuring mountainous landscape, signed and attr. Huang Binhong (Chinese, 1865-1955); inscribed with 3 artist seals, 72 cm x 356 cm. Huang Binhong painter was well-known for his freehand landscapes. “The ancients often remarked that in painting it is better to be clumsy than clever,” he once wrote. “Some may even say that the clever can also be clumsy, because to understand that cleverness can lead to stupidity is to be close to the ways of heaven.” Born on January 27, 1865 in Jinhua, China to a family of artists and scholars. As a young man, his anti-government sentiments led him to flee to Shanghai, where he edited art books and magazines. In 1934, he wrote Huafa Yaozhi (Principles of Painting), in this work, the artist explained the techniques he used for ink and brush. Huang’s artistic style matured fully during this time period. During the end of his care his eyesight began to weaken, helping him to further break away from more traditional depictions of naturalistic form. The artist held his first solo retrospective when he was 80 years old. Huang died on March 25, 1955. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Watercolor and ink on paper, long hand scroll, featuring lotus pond and birds, signed and attr. Li Kuchan (Chinese, 1898-1983), inscribed with 2 artist seals, 46 x 1067 cm. Li Kuchan was Chinese painter known for combining Western techniques with traditional Chinese styles. A specialist in bird-and-flower paintings, Li executed his works using a spontaneous brushwork and simplified forms. Born in 1898 in Gaotang County, China, he went on to study Western techniques under Xu Beihong and Chinese ink-wash painting under Qi Baishi. In 1926, Li began a career as an art teacher, later holding a position at the Central Academy of Fine Arts for over 30 years. During the 1960s, he was targeted as reactionary professor by the government and jailed for a brief period of time. Li died in 1983 in Beijing, China. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in British Columbia, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, among others.

Ink on paper, long hand scroll, featuring bamboo and orchid, signed and attr. Puzuo (Chinese, 1918-2001), inscribed with 4 artist seals, 32 x 312 cm. Pu Zuo was a Chinese visual artist who was born in 1918. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Pheasant and Bamboo' sold at China Guardian Auctions, Beijing '30th China Guardian Quarterly Auction: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in 2012 for $130,061.

Ink on paper, long hand scroll, featuring bamboo forest, signed and attr. Zheng Banqiao (Chinese, 1693-1765), inscribed with 1 artist seal, title signed Shi Shuqing (Chinese, 1922-2007), inscribed with 2 seals, 1110 x 50 cm.

Watercolor and ink on paper booklet, featuring 12 pages of beauties, signed and attr. Chen Shaomei (Chinese, 1909-1954), inscribed with 12 artist seals, 39 x 24.5 cm, Chen Shaomei was a Chinese painter known for his traditional subject matter and technique. Born in 1909 in Hengshan, China, Chen began studying calligraphy and painting at the age of 14. The artist developed a strong reputation for his paintings of landscapes and figures in the period just before the Chinese Communist Party came to power. He died on September 9, 1954.

Watercolor and ink on paper booklet, featuring 10 pages of mountainous landscape, signed and attr. Hu Peiheng (Chinese, 1892-1965), inscribed with 10 artist seals, 29 x 40 cm. Hu Peiheng is a Chinese visual artist. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'LANDSCAPE' sold at Poly International Auction Co. 'A Selection Of Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art From North American Chinese Collectors' in 2011 for $532,040.

Ink on paper, sketchbook. Featuring a mountainous landscape with Chinese calligraphy. Signed and attr. Qian Huian (Chinese, 1833-1911) and inscribed with 4 artist seals. 27 x 152 cm

Ink on paper booklet, featuring 3 pages of paintings and 5 pages of calligraphy, signed and attr. Wu Lixian (Chinese, 1869-1938), inscribed with 19 artist seals, 33 x 44.5 cm. Wu Lixian is a visual artist. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Untitled' sold at Poly International Auction Co. 'Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy IV' in 2012.

Watercolor and ink on paper booklet, featuring 10 pages of mountainous landscape, signed and attr. Wu Shixian (Chinese, 1845-1916), inscribed with 20 artist seals, 32 x 32 cm, Wu Shixian was a landscape painter of the Qing dynasty. Born in Nanjing in the Jiangsu province, Wu relocated to Shanghai, and, later, Japan.

Watercolor and ink on paper, framed, featuring mountainous landscape, signed by artist, inscribed with 1 artist seal, 82 x 35 cm

Lotus and carps, Chinese ink and watercolor on paper, framed, signed Li Meiying, dated 1996, inscribed with 3 artist seals, 76 x 49 cm

Graphite on paper. Featuring sketch of a woman. Signed and attr. Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918) on the lower left corner. 18.7 x 12.6 in. (47.5 x 32 cm). Gustav Klimt is best known for his opulently gilded art nouveau portraits of women that epitomize fin-de-siecle Vienna. His Symbolist pastiches of pale nudes, allegorical gardens and erotic content served as the basis for many American psychedelic poster designs in the 1960s. Early in his career, Klimt was supported generously by the Viennese community, and received several commissions for murals in theaters and the Museum Kunsthistorisches. Early narrative paintings depicted heavy subjects such as anxiety, doubt, sexuality, and death, but in later years, he turned toward landscape painting, exploring light and abstract patterns of nature. His most famous paintings are The Kiss (1907) and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907), which sold for a record auction price of more than 100 million dollars in 2006. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Italy)

Graphite on paper. Featuring a sketch of a lady. Signed and attr. Leonard Tsugouharu Foujita (Japanese-French, 1886-1968). 13 x 11 in. (33 x 27.9 cm), he was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. He has been called "the most important Japanese artist working in the West during the 20th century". His Book of Cats, published in New York by Covici Friede, 1930, with 20 etched plate drawings by Foujita, is one of the top 500 (in price) rare books ever sold, and is ranked by rare book dealers as "the most popular and desirable book on cats ever published." PROVENANCE: Private Collection (Umbertide, Italy)

Charcoal on paper. Framed. Featuring a figure drawing. Signed by the artist on the lower right corner, 59 x 26.5 cm (23.2 x 10.4 inches).

Charcoal on paper. Featuring a dancer. Signed and attr. Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) on the lower corner with seal. "ATELIER ED. DEGAS" in red. 21.5 x 17 cm (8.5 x 6.7 in). Always remembered as an Impressionist, Edgar Degas was a member of the seminal group of Paris artists who began to exhibit together in the 1870s. He shared many of their novel techniques, was intrigued by the challenge of capturing effects of light and attracted to scenes of urban leisure. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Colorado, United States)

Charcoal on paper. Signed and attr. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Guercino (Italian, 1591-1666). 10.5 x 7.75 in. (26.7 x 19.7 cm). Giovanni Francesco Barieri, best known as Guercino was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner is in contrast to the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Perugia, Italy)

Charcoal on paper. Featuring sketch of seated nude, possibly of Frida Kahlo. Signed and attr. Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957) on the lower margin and dated 1930. 19.5 x 12 cm (7.7 x 4.7 inches). Inspired by Renaissance frescoes and motivated by a conviction in the value of public art, Diego Rivera found his calling as a muralist. A visit to the Soviet Union informed his signature earth-toned, Social Realist style. In accordance with his Marxist views, he “made the masses the heroes of monumental art,” painting narrative scenes championing indigenous Mexican culture and workers who toiled in the name of progress. Detroit Industry (1932-3), a 27-panel tribute to the city’s labor force, reveals Rivera’s interest in the form and function of industrial technology. While his concern for the working class resonated in the United States, his inclusion of a portrait of Lenin in Man at the Crossroads (1933), a mural commissioned for Rockefeller Center in New York City, proved highly controversial. PROVENANCE: Private collection (New York, United States)

Charcoal on paper, portrait of an old lady framed. Signed on lower right corner. 16.5 x 11.5 inch (42 x 29 cm)

Ink on paper. Featuring Tintin and his companion snowy. Signed and attr. Herge (Belgian, 1907-1983) on the lower left corner. 6.7 x 9.6 in. (17 x 24.5 cm). Georges Propser Remi known by the pen name Herge was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke (1930-40) and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936-57). His works were executed in his distinct ligne claire drawing style

Ink on paper. Featuring a nude figure. Signed and attr. J. Pages, inscribed 1971 on the lower margin, 11 x 8.5 in. (28 x 21.5 cm)

Ink on paper. Featuring self-portrait. Signed and attr. Hugo Pratt (Italian, 1927-1995) on the lower right corner. 14.8 x 10.3 in. (37.5 x 26.5 cm). Hugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005.In 1946 Hugo Pratt became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Dino Battaglia and Damiano Damiani. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Italy)

Ink on paper framed, featuring a barn house and trees scene in a monochromatic tone. Signed by the artist "Bunnell" on the lower right margin. 11.2 x 14.2 in. (28.5 x 36 cm). Private estate (Stouffville, Ontario)

Ink on paper. Landscape scene. Attr. Caroline Burnett, unsigned. 11.2 x 14.2 in. (28.5 x 36 cm). PROVENANCE: Acquired from the artist. Private estate (Stouffville, Ontario)

Ink on paper drawing. Featuring Schroeder, who is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. Signed and attr. Charles M. Schulz (American, 1922-2000) on the lower right corner. 11 x 8.3 in. (28 x 21 cm). Charles Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, launched his comic strip Peanuts in 1950. Featuring hero Charlie Brown, over the years the strip would run in more than 2,000 newspapers and in many languages. Peanuts also expanded into TV specials like the Emmy-winning A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as books and a huge merchandise collection. Schulz died on February 12, 2000. PROVENANCE: Upper New York estate

Marker on paper. Featuring a portrait against a black backdrop. Signed with monogram and attr. Max Pechstein (German, 1881-1955) on the left edge. 21 x 20 cm (8.3 x 7.9 inches). A key Expressionist painter of the early 20th century, Max Pechstein produced decorative and colorful paintings that borrowed from Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and the Fauves. As a member of Die Brücke, a group of German Expressionists who took a primitivist approach to painting, Pechstein worked closely with Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. He travelled to Palau in the South Pacific in 1914, after which his paintings increasingly displayed elements of Primitivism, such as thick black lines and angular figures. Pechstein was also a prolific printmaker, making over 900 prints over the course of his career. Instrumental in founding the Novembergruppe in 1918, a left-wing artists’ group demanding artist involvement in creating social policies, Pechstein was later denounced by the Nazis and hundreds of his paintings were removed from German museums. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Europe)

Pastel on canvas, gilt frame. Portrait of a girl. School of Francois Boucher (French, 1703-1770). 18.1 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm). François Boucher was a French painter known as a master of the Rococo style. His delicate paintings of pastoral and boudoir scenes meld naturalism with lighthearted fantasy. Referring to his interest in staging compositions in a theatrical manner, he once quipped, “Nature is too green and badly lit.” Born on September 29, 1703 in Paris, France, he apprenticed under artist François Lemoyne and went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome in 1720. The artist cited Peter Paul Rubens and Antoine Watteau as major influences in his development. After establishing himself with important commissions for the royal court at Versailles, he became a member of the Royal Academy and was later appointed director. In 1765, Boucher was awarded the title Premier Peintre du Roi (First Painter of the King) under Louis XV. During his time at court, he produced one of his most famous works, a portrait of the King’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour (1756). The artist died on May 30, 1770 in Paris, France. Boucher’s works are presently held in the collections of the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, among others. PROVENANCE: Private American collection (Chicago, IL)

Pastel on paper. Featuring portrait of a man. Signed and attr. Jacopo da Pontorm (Italian, 1494-1557). 12 x 8.75 in. (30.5 x 22.2 cm). Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Perugia, Italy)

Tempera and oil on paper. Featuring self-portrait. Signed and attr. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890 ) on the lower right corner. 10.8 x 7.7 in. (27.5 x 19.5 cm). Accompanied with a certificate. Primarily self-taught and unappreciated during his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh made over 900 paintings and 1,100 works on paper during the decade that he worked as an artist. Influenced by Jean-Francois Millet and the Barbizon School artists, van Gogh’s early work comprises dour portraits of Dutch peasants and depressing rural landscapes. In 1886-88 he moved to Paris, where Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism had a big impact on his painting. He brightened his palette, experimented with shorter brush strokes, impasto, and complementary colors. The paintings he made in Paris announce the bolder Post-Impressionist style that he is best known for today. Emotionally unstable, humorless, and argumentative, van Gogh eventually had a breakdown and moved to an asylum in the south of France where he painted landscapes, portraits, interiors and still life's steeped with personal symbolism. PROVENANCE: Private American collection

Tempera and gouache on paper. Featuring landscsape scene. Signed and attr. Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) on the lower right corner. 10.6 x 7.7 in. (27 x 19.5 cm). Accompanied with a certificate of authenticity. Claude Monet was a French painter known for his pioneering role in the development of Impressionism. A widely beloved artist of the 20th century, his inimitable style is best remembered through his vivid depictions of his flowering garden in Giverny, France, which today serves as a museum dedicated to his life and work. Monet, along with his peers Edgar Degasand Pierre-Auguste Renoir, were concerned with conveying atmosphere and mood with broken brushstrokes and a close attention to the colors of light and shadow. Some of his best known works include Water Lillies (1919), Impression, Sunrise(1872), and Rouen Cathedral at Sunset (1893). “When you go out to paint try to forget what object you have before you—a tree, a house, a field or whatever,” the artist once descried. “Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you.” Born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France, he learned to plein-air paint as a teenager in the coastal town of Le Havre from an older artist named Eugene Boudin. Returning to Paris in 1859, he was a pupil in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille. Their first group show in 1874, caused a public outcry with the art critic Louis Leroy deriding them in print with the term “impressionists.” Over the following decades, public and critical opinion changed towards the Impressionist style, making many of the original members both wealthy and popular. Monet died on December 5, 1926 in Giverny, France at the age of 86. Today, there are around 2,500 surviving works by the artist, some of which are included in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among many others. PROVENANCE: Private American collection

French tempera and ink on paper. Featuring a lobster at the dinner table with a glass of wine. Signed Buffet and accompanied by a certificate. 11 x 8 in (27.94 x 20.32 cm)

Tempera on paper, framed. Featuring an couple in embrace. Signed and attr. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) on the upper left corner. 29 x 18 cm (11.4 x 7.1 inches). A recognized forerunner of Expressionism, Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch is renowned for his representations of emotion. Associated with the international development of Symbolism, Munch experimented with many different themes, palettes, and styles of drawing. Though stylistically influenced by Paul Gauguin and the Nabis, Munch’s subjects are drawn from his Scandinavian roots and his own tortured psyche. His most famous painting, The Scream (1893), illustrates a tormented cry translated into waves of color that resonate across the landscape. Though based on Munch’s own experience, The Scream has become an instantly recognizable symbol of anxiety and alienation. Often reworking his paintings into etchings and lithographs, Munch was also one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century—he took an experimental approach to printmaking and contributed to the revival of the woodcut. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Watercolor on paper. Featuring a pink flowers painting. Signed Dori Leisinger (Canadian, 1925-2011) on the lower right corner. Dated 2006. 12 x 12 cm (4.7 x 4.7 inches). Dori Leisinger was a local artist and sold most of her paintings through art shows. She was an avid photographer and worked on different subjects. She worked on landscapes most of all and experimented with different styles, mediums, and techniques. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Stouffville, Ontario)

Watercolor on paper, framed. Featuring girls dancing. Signed "Kharcho Y." on the lower right corner. Dated 1981. 24.5 x 34 cm (9.6 x 13.4 in.)

Watercolor on paper, framed. Featuring a fruit merchant sitting streetside. Signed and attr. Alessio Issupoff (Italian, 1889-1957) on the lower left corner. Cyrllic writing on verso. 25 x 20 cm (9.8 x 7.9 inches). Alessio Issupoff was an Italian painter who was born in 1889. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'THE MILLINER' sold at Sotheby's London 'Russian Art Day Sale' in 2014 for $245,300. The artist died in 1957. PROVENANCE: Private collection (New York, United States)

Watercolor on paper, framed, featuring woman portrait, signed and attr. Meier Akselrod (Russian, 1902-1970) on lower right corner, dated 1936, 25 x 20 cm (9.8 x 7.9 in.)

Watercolor on paper. Featuring a harbor landscape scene. Signed and attr. Terrick Williams (British, 1860-1936) on lower right corner. 4.8 x 6.7 inches (12.2 x 17.2 cm). Terrick Williams was a British painter who was a member of the Royal Academy. During his lifetime, Williams became one of the most successful painters in London. Williams focussed on landscape and marine subjects and painted in oil, pastel and watercolour. He travelled extensively and his impressionistic, luminous paintings sought the transient effects of light and reflections in Venice, St. Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St. Ives. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1904. His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) on 18 November 1924, a Royal Academician (R.A.) on 14 February 1933, and a Senior R.A. on 1 January 1936. In 1933 he was also elected President of the RI. He died on his birthday in 1936 aged 76. After his death a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society in 1937. PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom

Watercolor on paper painting. Featuring a landscape scene of the sea and entitled, "French Crabbers". Signed and attr. Winifred Nicholson (British, 1893-1981). 9.1 x 11.4 in. (23 x 29 cm). Winifred Nicholson was a British painter. She was married to the painter Ben Nicholson, and was thus the daughter-in-law of the painter William Nicholson and his wife, the painter Mabel Pryde. She was the mother of the painter Kate Nicholson. Winifred Nicholson was a colourist who developed a personal impressionistic style, concentrating on domestic still life objects and landscapes. She often combined the two subjects as seen in her painting From Bedroom Window, Bankshead showing a landscape viewed through a window, with flowers in a vase in the foreground. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Manchester, UK)

Watercolor on paper. Featuring still life of fruits atop table. Signed and attr. Winston Churchill (British, 1874-1965) on the lower left corner. Inscription of artist name on verso. 8.7 x 12.4 inch (22 x 31.5 cm). Churchill was most fond of oils, for their forgiving, flexible nature and bright colors - as well as the joy they exuded. "Just to paint is great fun,” he wrote. “The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out." He was known to set up his easel outdoors to capture the grounds of his country home in Kent, called Chartwell. (Now owned by the National Trust and open to visitors today, it still houses Churchill’s preserved painting studio.) The politician-painter would also work during his travels to Egypt, Italy, Morocco, and the south of France, among other locations. PROVENANCE: Private estate (South America)

Watercolour on paper painting, featuring landscape scene. Signed by Edward Garbely (American, 1908-1999) on bottom left corner. 11.3 x 15 in. (28.7 x 38.1 cm). Edward Garbely was born on August 15, 1908 in Newark, New Jersey. He was best known for his harbor scenes, seascapes, landscapes. He studied at the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Art, including with John R. Grabach, A. H. Trouck, and Alexander Baranowski. He also studied with noted artist Emil Gruppe and NY artist Dorothy Koppelman. He was a member of the New Jersey Society of Painters & Sculptors, the East Orange Art Club. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Ohio, United States

Ink on watercolor on paper. Featuring a Femlin standing aside a beer being poured into a mug and posing. Signed and attr. LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012) on the lower left corner. 11 x 8.5 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm). LeRoy Neiman was an American artist who blended a Pop Art sensibility with impressionistic brushwork and vibrant color. “I do not depart from the colors borrowed from life,” he once said. “But I use color to emphasize the scent, the spirit, and the feeling of the thing I’ve experienced.” His prints and paintings of sporting events, leisure activities, and movie characters like Rocky were published in magazines such as Playboy. Born LeRoy Runquist on June 8, 1921 in St. Paul, MN, the painter enrolled briefly at the St. Paul School of Art and then at the Art Institute of Chicago after having served in the US military. During his life he sometimes performed on television, captivating audiences by drawing or painting portraits live on air. The prolific and popular artist donated a substantial donation to Columbia University School of the Arts in 1995, which helped to create its LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. Neiman died on June 20, 2012 in New York, NY at the age of 91. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (Chicago, IL). Acquired from the father of the current owner, J. Ruzic. Ruzic’s involvement in the restaurant industry during his lifetime was of a national presence and awarded him the position on the Chicago & Illinois Restaurant Association as well as the National Restaurant Association. He toured Europe at their request (along with others) to help initiate training programs in the United States in the early and mid 1960's. Ruzic was also known for his Apple Strudel, which he sold retail through his restaurant and commercially to the White Hall & Tremont Hotels in downtown Chicago amongst others in the late 1950's and into the mid and late 1960's. The original Mayor Daily, Senator Dirksen, Mr. Hefner and Mr. Neiman were all customers amongst others. Arnie Morton was a friend and was the first Food & Beverage Director for Mr. Hefner's Playboy Club in downtown Chicago. Mr. Morton went on to run all the Clubs and eventually developed Morton's Steak House across the country (his son Peter went on to start Hard Rock Café). The current owner, J. Ruzic was the national president of a franchisee council who had Mr. Neiman design his first and only Neiman Jacket (as a high level give away for the Jimmy Connors Nuveen Challenge Event, which in the mid 1990's was Jimmy Connors answer to the tennis version on the Senior PGA Tour). As a result, the J. Ruzic met Mr. Neiman on many occasions. The photograph shows the Ruzic's with LeRoy Neiman (photograph is not included in the lot)

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring portrait of a monk with another man. Signed and attr. Egon Schiele (Austria, 1890-1918) on lower right margin. 9.4 x 12.2 in. (24 x 31 cm). A great innovator of modern figure painting, Egon Schiele is known for creating erotic and deeply psychological portraits, on many occasions using himself as the subject. Schiele often used color sparingly, his work identifiable instead by his characteristic sinuous black line. In his many self-portraits, Schiele is typically nude and staring directly towards the viewer, making the works both revealing and confrontational. Schiele’s female subjects are often nude as well, their bodies portrayed in various contorted positions. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on board. Featuring a portrait of a man. Portrait of a young boy in graphite on verso. 51 x 38.5 cm (20.1 x 15.2 inches)

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring a Cubist style artwork. Signed and attr. Albert Gleizes (French, 1881-1953), on the lower right corner. 24 x 19 cm (9.4 x 7.5 in.). Albert Gleizes was a French artist and writer. Best known for his Cubist paintings, he dissected landscape and figure into flat planes while writing authoritatively on French avant-garde art. Gleizes was born on December 8, 1881 in Paris, France and was self-taught as an artist. He began painting at the advent of the 20th century, producing colorful compositions that leaned towards post-Impressionist symbolism. By 1910, Gleizes had reduced his work to primary form and, in tandem with peers like Jean Metzinger, like Fernand Léger, and Henri Le Fauconnier, helped form the geometric underpinnings of Modern Art by co-publishing the seminal treatise Du Cubisme in 1912. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache and pastel on paper. Featuring two figures holding hay in landscape scene. Signed and attr. Jean-Francois Millet (French, 1814-1875) on the lower right corner. Inscribed with gallery number, verso. 27.5 x 19.5 cm (10.8 x 7.7 in). Jean-François Millet was a celebrated French painter and member of what became known as the Barbizon School. In his dusky painting The Gleaners (1857), Millet meditated on the profound relationship he saw between peasants and the landscapes they farmed. “It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power,” he once said. Born on October 4, 1814 in Gruchy, France, Millet grew up in a deeply religious farming family, before being sent to Cherbourg to study under a local portrait painter. Traveling to Paris in 1837, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts where he became a pupil of the well-known history painter Paul Delaroche. Over the next decade, Millet moved between Cherbourg and Paris without finding success in either. In 1849, he fled Paris to the small village of Barbizon due to an outbreak of cholera. Here he joined the painters Théodore Rousseau and Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, but unlike his peers who depicted the rocky terrain around the forest of Fontainebleau, Millet chose the small farms and their occupants as motifs. The paintings he produced during the years that followed earned him the Legion of Honor in 1865. The artist died on January 20, 1875 in Barbizon, France. Today, Millet’s works are held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among others. PROVENANCE: Private American collection

Gouache on paper, featuring a Cubism style artwork. Signed and attr. Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956), signature on the lower right side along the oval curve. Stamped on verso and inscribed with gallery inventory number A-32. 15.4 x 11.8 in. (39 x 30 cm). An important figure in Cubism, Jean Metzinger participated in the first exhibition of Cubist works at the Salon des Indépendents in 1911, alongside Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, and Robert Delaunay. A few years earlier, Guillaume Apollinaire had introduced Metzinger to the founders of Cubism, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, who both had a significant impact on his work. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Perugia, Italy)

Gouache on paper. Featuring seascape scene of sailing boats. Signed and attr. Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) on the lower left corner. 24 x 28 cm (9.4 x 11.0 inches). Raoul Dufy was a French artist and designer whose paintings and prints portrayed leisure activities and urban landscapes. He created airy washes of light and shade, into which he would draw bold calligraphic brushstrokes. The artist's breezy yet experimental use of color was influenced both by Claude Monet and his Fauvist peer Henri Matisse. “Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue,” the artist mused. “Whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color—pink.” Born June 3, 1877 in Le Havre, France, he enrolled in night classes at the École des Beaux-Arts before studying under Léon Bonnat at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on a scholarship. Dufy first encountered Fauvism at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, after which he adapted the style to his own purposes. During his life, the artist traveled both abroad and within France, painting views of the Mediterranean city of Nice, as well as scenes of horse races and regattas. Throughout the 1920s, Dufy worked in a variety of materials, producing ceramics, tapestry hangings, and large-scale architectural decorations. His commission for the 26th Venice Biennale won him the International Grand Prix for painting in 1952, a year before his death on March 23, 1953 in Forcalquier, France. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Europe)

Gouache on paper. Featuring an abstract composition. SIgned and attr. Joseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986) on the lower right corner. 17 x 22 cm (6.7 x 8.7 in.) Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist. Known for his highly original and controversial themes, his practice of “social sculpture” attempted to make art more democratic by collapsing the space between life and art. His work I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) remains a seminal piece of performance art. In the work, Beuys, over the course of three days, locked himself in a room with a live coyote, armed only with layers of felt and a cane. “Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives,” he once mused. Born on May 12, 1921 in Krefield, Germany, Beuys fought in World War II and was injured in a plane crash in 1943, an experience that would feature heavily in his future artistic practice. He enrolled in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1947, and after being appointed professor of monumental sculpture at the school in 1961, he joined the Fluxus group along with Nam June Paik and George Maciunas, only to leave the movement four years later. He performed in his first documenta exhibition in the early 1960s, and was dismissed from his teaching appointment in 1972 after accepting students who were previously rejected from the Akademie. Beuys died January 23, 1986 in Düsseldorf, Germany at the age of 64. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hamburger Banhof in Berlin, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring a portrait of a woman. Signed and attr. Lovis Corinth (German, 1858-1925) on the lower left corner. 27.5 x 20 cm (10.8 x 7.9 inches). Lovis Corinth was a German painter best known for his adaptation of French Impressionist techniques into his idiosyncratic, psychologically expressive paintings. His work often featured interiors, landscapes, portraits, and biblical or mythological scenes. Inspired by the brushwork of Frans Hals the Elder and Rembrandt van Rijn, Corinth painted a series of slaughterhouses, using bright and thick pigment to give the carcasses a sensuality reminiscent of traditional nude painting. Born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858 in Tapiau, Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia), Corinth went on to study at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich and later moved to Paris, where he studied under the popular painter William Adolphe Bourgereau. Corinth’s work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others. He died on July 17, 1925 in Zandvoort, the Netherlands. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring sweeping landscape. Signed and attr. Hugo Scheiber (Hungarian, 1873-1950) on the lower right corner. 26 x 36 cm (11.0 x 14.1 inches). Born in Hungary, Scheiber was a leading Expressionist painter who exhibited frequently at the famous Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin.  He was also strongly influenced by Italian Futurist founder Marinetti and exhibited at the famous Futurism exhibition held in Rome in 1933. He was also a favorite of Katherine Dreier who invited him to exhibit at the New York exhibition of the Societe Anonyme in 1926. Scheiber is known for his use of strong colors and stylized use of geometric figures and  for his portrayals of cafe and cabaret life. This painting in particular has a strong deco feel to it.  His work has been shown in numerous retrospectives just prior to and since his death. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring a figure eating a watermelon. Signed and attr. Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) on the lower left corner. 26 x 18.5 cm (10.2 x 7.3 inches). Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter and printmaker known for his large-scale murals and vivid use of color. Like Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco, Tamayo helped garner international attention for Mexican art. Influenced by his pre-Columbian heritage as well as Cubism and Surrealism, Tamayo portrayed vernacular subjects like watermelons and animals in a unique formal vocabulary. “Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere,” he stated. “It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.” Born on August 26, 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico, Tamayo left the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts after a year and began to teach himself. He moved to New York in the 1930s after having a falling out with the politically driven Rivera and Siqueiros in his home county. Eventually returning to Mexico in 1959, he founded the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in his birthplace of Oaxaca during the early 1980s. The artist continued to produce some of his most compelling works including Moon and Sun (1990) right up until his death on June 24, 1991 in Mexico City, Mexico at the age of 91. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on paper. Framed. Featuring a girl kissing a clowned figured. Signed and attr. Leon Bakst (Russian, 1866-1924) on the lower right corner. 11 x 8.5 in. (28 x 22 cm). Leon Bakst was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes.

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring an abstract portrait. Signed and attr. Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) on lower right margin with inscription of framer on verso. 9.4 x 6.7 in. (24 x 17 cm). Joan Miro was a seminal figure in 20th-century avant-garde painting. The Spanish artist’s innovative use of line, organic shapes, and color represents a major contribution to Surrealism. Representative of his ability to conjure evocative space - Miro's famed triptych Blue I,II,II (1961), portrays a floating world using only blue, orange, and black. “Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors,” the artist reflected. "It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this." PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on paper. Featuring surrealist landscape scene. Signed and attr. Salvador Dali. 7.1 x 9.6 in. (18 x 24.5 cm). Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Gouache on paper. Featuring a portrait. Signed and attr. John Bellany RA (Scottish, 1942-2013) on lower right corner. 20 x 15 inches (51 x 38 cm). In 1968 Bellany graduated and his diploma show was hailed as great success. Many of the paintings from this and the earlier periods are now in public institutions as well as various national galleries. After graduation, Bellany was offered a teaching position at the Edinburgh College of Art but he carried on as a working artist and flit between various teaching jobs at different art colleges. When in 1974 he separated from his wife his art appears to take on a darker tone. The symbolism increases and it seems as though each picture can have a whole narrative of symbols within it, increasingly the pictures become wilder and wilder tending more to expressionism, at this point he suffered a nervous breakdown and returned to Port Seton for recuperation. The New York 1982 tour which included a showing at the Rosa Esman gallery, presented his work to a much greater audience, resulting in purchases to important private collections as well as to the NY MOMA. One of the works exhibited was Time and the Raven, a particularly strident work. The works title was borrowed by his friend Sir Peter Maxwell Davies for his UN composition of the same name in 1995. ellany's work is included in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, and Tate Britain, London. Another place where his work is featured is the National Portrait galleries. Additionally some of his works are held in Scotland by the National Galleries of Scotland and also by East Lothian Council reflecting his generosity to the local communities he lived in. PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom)

Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring abstract composition. Signed and attr. Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) on the lower right corner. 20.5 x 17 cm (8.1 x 6.7 inches). Jasper Johns is an iconic American artist who came to define the period between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. In Flag (1954-1955), perhaps his most famous work—a collage of paper, encaustic oil, and fabric - Johns makes a formal abstraction from the American stars and stripes while also muting its power. “I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life,” the artist mused. “The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.” Born on May 15, 1930 in Augusta, GA, Johns left his course of study at the University of South Carolina after one year and moved to New York. While in New York, he met Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage. Along with the work of his close friend, Rauschenberg, Johns’s sculptural paintings and readymades signified the resurgence of Marcel Duchamp’s influence upon contemporary art. Their Neo-Dada works, which blended cultural imagery—signs, maps, and targets—paralleled the advancements made by Pop artists like Andy Warhol. Johns was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1988, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He currently lives and works in Sharon, CT. The artist’s works are held in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Acrylic on canvas, featuring an abstract style painting. Singed M. Scott on the lower left corner. dated '80. 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 15.9 in.)

Acrylic on canvas. Featuring a landscape abstract expressionist composition. Signed by Violetta Pesin (Ukrainian-Canadian, born 1977) on verso; dated and entitled, "Ripples 30" (2015). 50.5 x 41 cm (19.9 x 16.1 in). Born in Odessa, Russia and raised in Canada, Vita works with various mediums, including photography, painting (acrylic oil, guache, watercolor), and writing. She is a member of the Canadian Artists' Representation of Ontario.

Acrylic on canvas, thickly painted in his characteristic Electric Impressionism. Entitled, "Purple Sunset" (2018) and dated on verso. Signed by Alexander Antanenka (Russian-American, b. 1951, based in the United States) on the lower right corner. Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist. 20 x 24 in. Alexander Antanenka was born in Brest, Soviet Union on February 16th, 1951 where he attended art school in grade school, he also attended the Art Academy in Leningrad, Russia and graduated at the top of his class in 1978. Antanenka fled to Siberian City of Maganda after his parents were killed in the Chernobyl disaster, and he was displeased with the Soviet governments attempted to cover up this tragic event. Many artists, poets and politicians who did not believe in their governments practice exiled here. Alexander’s work changed while he resided in the city of Maganda and he was able to express his emotions through his artwork. Many Japanese were interested in his art but unfortunately he was unable to have an exhibition because the KGB restricted him. After the fall out of the Soviet he was able to hold his own exhibitions in different cities such as: Maganda in 1990, Vladivostok in 1992, Minsk and Brest in 1996, just to name a few. Alexander now resides in the United States and his artwork is in private collections around the world. Exhibited at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea (New York). PROVENANCE: From the family of the artist.

Acrylic on canvas, thickly painted in his characteristic Electric Impressionism. Signed by Alexander Antanenka (Russian-American, b. 1951, based in the United States) on the lower right corner. Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist. 24 x 40 in. Alexander Antanenka was born in Brest, Soviet Union on February 16th, 1951 where he attended art school in grade school, he also attended the Art Academy in Leningrad, Russia and graduated at the top of his class in 1978. Antanenka fled to Siberian City of Maganda after his parents were killed in the Chernobyl disaster, and he was displeased with the Soviet governments attempted to cover up this tragic event. Many artists, poets and politicians who did not believe in their governments practice exiled here. Alexander’s work changed while he resided in the city of Maganda and he was able to express his emotions through his artwork. Many Japanese were interested in his art but unfortunately he was unable to have an exhibition because the KGB restricted him. After the fall out of the Soviet he was able to hold his own exhibitions in different cities such as: Maganda in 1990, Vladivostok in 1992, Minsk and Brest in 1996, just to name a few. Alexander now resides in the United States and his artwork is in private collections around the world. Exhibited at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea (New York). PROVENANCE: From the family of the artist.

Acrylic on canvas. Abstract composition. Signed and attr. Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994). 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm). The painterly abstraction of Sam Francis is most often associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement, but Francis also spent a great deal of time in Paris and became linked with the parallel movement of Art Informel in Europe. Francis’ most iconic works are characterized by saturated splashes of color that populate the edges of the canvas in order to emphasize the luminous white void in the center. This contrast between the vibrancy of Francis’ color palette and the austere white picture plane demonstrate the artist’s concern with relationships of space, color, and light, as opposed to the psychologically expressive tendencies of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock.

Oil on canvas, abstract composition, entitled, "Patio de la Infancia." Signed Lydia Tarica (Argentinian) on the lower right corner. 90 x 90 cm. (35.5 x 35.5 in.). PROVENANCE: Donated by the artist to the Museum of the Americas (Doral, Florida, United States)

Oil on board. Featuring landscape scene. Signed and attr on lower right corner with monogram Franklin White (Australian, 1892-1975). 10 x 11.8 inches (25.5 x 30.2 cm). PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom)

Oil on board. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed and attr. Rolf Harris (Australian, b. 1930) on lower right corner. 12 x 17 inches (30.48 x 43.18 cm). Rolf Harris is an Australian visual artist. Rolf Harris has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Walker Art Gallery. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Outback landscape' sold at Gorringes 'Fine Art, Antiques & Collectables' in 2013 for $8,311. PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom)

Oil on canvas. Signed and attr. N. Noran (Austrian, b.1905) on lower right corner. 23 x 35 inch (58.5 x 89 cm). Attached on verso: Born 1905 in Vienna, Austria, where he attended the Public Schools as well as the Academy of Fine Arts. After extensive travels he settled in Vienna and became a member of the "Wiener Kunstlerhaus" an artists' society in which exhibitions he took part during the years 1934-1938. 1938 he had to leave Austria and spent the following years in Switzerland. After the war he returned to his home country and is again very successful in exhibitions in Vienna, and Salzburg.

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a house scene. Artist signed "A. Ferzenaar" on the lower right corner. 30 x 38 cm (11.8 x 15 in.)

Oil on canvas. Featuring an oranges still life painting. Signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Inscribe in graphite on the upper side of the canvas. 51 x 40 cm (20.1 x 15.7 in.)

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a portrait of an old lady. Signed and attr. Mary Allison Doull (Polish-Canadian, 1866-1953) on the lower right corner. Gallery stamped on verso " Toiles Couleurs Fines, 21 Rue BREA, Paris". 51 x 42 cm (20.1 x 16.5 in.).Mary Allison Doull (or ‘M.A. Doull’, as she liked to sign her work) is a figure whose story deserves to be more widely known and talked about on the Island than it has been. Some of you may know it, but I daresay the majority of you are probably encountering it for the first time today. To my knowledge (and I’m certainly no expert), Doull is one of the only artists born and raised on the Island – and probably stands alone among women of that calling – to ever truly figure into professional artistic circles with the likes of, among others, Emily Carr.

Oil on canvas. Featuring a portrait of a boy. Signed and attr. Charles Tatossian Garo (Canadian, born 1925) on the lower right corner. 51 x 41 cm (20.1 x 16.1). Charles Tatossian Garo is a Canadian visual artist who was born in 1925. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'QUEBEC WINTER SCENE WITH HORSE-DRAWN SLEIGH' sold at Hodgins Art Auctions 'Spring 2011 Fine Art Auction' in 2011

Oil on canvas, framed, featuring cabin landscape, lower right corner signed C.H. Bajeaux (Canadian), 15 x 19 in (38.1 x 40.3 cm)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed by the artist on the lower left corner. 31 x 46 cm (12.2 x 18.1 in.)

Oil on canvas. Featuring an ocean ship scene. Initial "AK" signed by the artist on the lower left corner. portrait of an old man in graphite on verso. 41 x 51 cm (16.1 x 20.1 in.).

Oil on panel. Featuring a beautiful flower still life. Signed "FAHLSING" by the artist on the lower right corner. Artist sticker attached on verso "Ursula M. Fahlsing 2301 Lakeshore Blvd W Apt 212 Toronto Ontario M8V 1A7". 19 x 13 cm (7.5 x 5.1 in.)

Oil on canvas. Featuring autumn landscape scene. Signed Hendricks on the lower right corner. Accompanied by a certificate, "Traditional Galleries, Inc. with Certification Number: 8799. 31 x 41 cm (12.2 x 16.1 inches). PROVENANCE: Private collection (Ontario, Canada)

Oil on board. Featuring a landscape winter scene. Signed and attr. Henry Hoenigan (Canadian, 1917-1989) on the lower right corner, dated 1954. 28 x 40 cm (11 x 15..8 inches). Henry Heonigan was born in Poland, 1917, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, 1938. During WWII, he was interned in a Russian labour camp, but he continued to draw and paint whenever materials or opportunity permitted. He was allowed to leave Russia in 1943 to join the Free Polish Army in the Middle East. He continued to work in the Middle East after the war, and while still a soldier painted the portrait of Lt. Gen. Sikorski. He went to Paris, where strong European influences entered his work (1949). In 1950 he emigrated to Canada, and lived in Toronto. Honegan was recognized for his figure work and portraiture, but the Canadian landscape has offered him a new challenge, and his own ideas have developed and subsequently commanded much attention for their impressionist moods. PROVENANCE: Greater Toronto Area estate

Oil on board. Featuring a Canadian landscape scene. Signed and attr. Herbert Sydney Palmer (Canadian. 1881-1970) 18 x 24 in (46 x 61 cm) on the lower right corner. Herbert Sidney Palmer was born in 1881 in Toronto. Like many artists of his day, Herbert S. Palmer studied under renowned Canadian artists and art teachers John William Beatty and Frederick S. Challener at the Ontario College of Arts. Herbert S. Palmer had his first exhibition in 1905 with the Ontario Society of Artists, to which he was elected as a member in 1909. He was also a founding member of the Toronto Arts and Letters Club and was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 1915. From 1926 to 1941, the artist was the curator of the Canadian National Exhibition fine arts department, choosing works to display at this premier art exhibition. Over his long artistic career, Herbert S. Palmer became known as a superb landscape artist, known for his astute choice of colour. He often painted in a pastoral manner, depicting sheep and cows at pasture. Locales for his paintings include the Humber Valley area around Toronto, the Muskokas, Quebec and Haliburton. Herbert S. Palmer sold through the T. Eaton Fine Art Galleries in Toronto and exhibited at major shows and exhibitions over the years. This included having paintings in exhibits at the New York World’s Fair and the Tate Gallery in London, England. His works are held in numerous public and corporate collections, as well as in the Art Gallery of Toronto, University of Hart House, and the National Gallery of Canada. Herbert S. Palmer died in 1970. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Ontario, Canada)

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a street scene. Signed and attr. John Powell (Canadian, 1854-1932) on the lower right corner. 8 x 9 in (20.3 x 22.9 cm).

Oil on canvas. Featuring a portrait of an old man. Signed :Nonotko" by the artist on the lower right corner. 41 x 30.5 cm (16.1 x 12 in.)

Oil on board. Featuring a winter landscape scene with an orthodox church in the distance. Signed S. Y. Suder on the lower right corner. 41 x 29 cm (16.1 x 11.4 inches)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed by Serge Deherian (Canadian, born 1955). Inscribed on verso and entitled, "A Summer in Italy." 79.5 x 100 cm (31.3 x 39.3 in). Once in a very long time we are blessed with an artist whose new vision and form leap from tbe canvas. Such an artist is Serge, whose presence is already impacting the Toronto artistic community. Creating form and figure, his brush flows in perfect harmony with the subject in a style as unique as Picasso, Miro and Modigliani. PROVENANCE: Acquired from the artist.

Oil on canvas. Featuring abstract composition. Signed by Shoo Ching Wan (Chinese, 20th century). 76 x 92 cm (29.9 x 36.2 inches). PROVENANCE: Acquired from the artist. Kagan Fine Art (2017)

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a cubist still life. Signed and attr. Emil Filla (Czech, 1882-1953) on the lower right corner. 47.5 x 58 cm (18.7 x 22.8 inches). Emil Filla was a Czech painter whose works melded aspects of Cubism and Fauvism in his still lifes, landscapes, and figurative works. Born on April 4, 1882 in Chropyne, Moravia (present-day Czech Republic), he went on to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague between 1903 and 1906. From there, he joined Osma, a Czech group with ties to the German Expressionists. Filla was living in Paris before World War I, where he adopted the Cubist style of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. During the 1920s, he continued painting in a style which utilized multiple perspectives and stylizations of form. At the onset of the World War II, Filla was imprisoned by the Gestapo and sent to the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald. Surviving the camps, he returned to Prague, where his work took on a subdued and traditional quality, and often focused on scenic landscapes. The artist died on October 7, 1953 in Prague, Czech Republic. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Olomouc Museum of Art in the Czech Republic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Museum Kampa in Prague, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on board, framed, featuring Nefertiti before her suicide, signed Jaroslav Bartos (Czechoslovakian, 20th century), with Tane Art Gallery's sticker on verso. 15.5 x 13 in (39.4 x 33 cm). PROVENANCE: Purchased from Waddington's (June 2013). Acquired by the current owner (North York, ON)

Oil on board. Featuring an abstract composition. Signed and attr. Willem de Kooning (Dutch, 1904-1997), on the lower right corner. 51 x 60.5 cm (20 x 24 inch). A first-generation Abstract Expressionist, Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. In 1950s New York, when painters like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline were moving away from representational imagery toward pure abstraction, de Kooning maintained a commitment to the figurative tradition, developing a signature style that fused vivid color and aggressive paint handling with deconstructed images of the female form - a then-controversial body of works that has become known as his “Women” paintings. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Evia Island, Greece)

Oil on canvas, Paris pantheon city scene. Signed by artist on lower left corner. “PARIS PANTHEON” on lower right corner on verso. 16.5 x 19 inch (39 x 48 cm).

Oil on canvas. Featuring river landscape painting with people. Signed and attr. Camille Pissarro (Danish-French, 1830-1903) and dated on the lower left corner. Accompanied with a certificate of appraisal. Appraised by Daniel Hersh, Certified Appraiser for Art, Antiques and Collectibles (Roswell, Georgia). 20 x 24 cm (7.9 x 9.4 inches). Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French artist celebrated for his profound influence on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. Utilizing broken brushstrokes and thick passages of paint to create atmospheric conditions and build up forms. Often fixing his gaze onto the activities of daily life, he painted farmers, quiet towns, as well as the bustling avenues of Paris, as seen in his work The Boulevard Montmarte at Night (1897). “Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis,” he once advised. “Don't be afraid of putting on color. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.” Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on July 10, 1830 on the island of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies (currently the US Virgin Islands) to a Jewish-Portuguese family, he was sent to boarding school in France as a 12 year old boy. Returning to St. Thomas at 17, he attempted to join his father’s business while also continuing to draw and painting. Returning to Paris in 1855, he abandoned his former life and took classes from the painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and later attended the Académie Suisse where he befriended Paul Cézanne. During the Franco-Prussian War he fled to London, where he met Claude Monet and was informed by the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner.Upon returning to France, he helped form the the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs, who mounted the first show dedicated to Impressionist works in 1874, marking a pivotal moment in European art. A prolific painter who served as a mentor to many of his contemporaries, Pissarro described the Impressionists as “mountaineers roped together at the waist,” fearlessly advancing their movement in spite of critical derision. He died in Paris, France on November 13, 1903 at the age of 73. Today, Pissarro’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery in London, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Toronto, ON)

Oil on board. Featuring a cafe scene. Signed and attr. Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) on the lower right corner. 45 x 35 cm (17.7 x 13.8 inches). Henri Matisse was one of the most influential French artists of the 20th century. Matisse’s lyrical colors, inventive figuration, and use of decorative patterns helped redefine many of the formal tenets of painting. “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject-matter,” he once said. Born Henri-emile-Benoît Matisse on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France, he took to art relatively late in life after initially pursuing law. First studying painting under Gustave Moreau at the ecole des Beaux-Arts, he soon adopted the Pointillist ideas espoused by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. With Pointillism as a point of departure, Matisse along with Albert Marquet and Andre Derain, developed a radical method of using pure color to express light, in what became known as Fauvism. Matisse would return to a style which incorporated both naturalistic and decorative elements, as evinced in his painting Goldfish (1911). In the decades that followed, the artist spent much of his time in the South of France, painting models dressed as odalisques and ocean views from his hotel room. Late in his career, while bed-ridden and unable to paint, Matisse produced a number of cutout paper works such as Blue Nude II (1952). The artist died on November 3, 1954 in Nice, France. His experimentation with flat areas of unmodulated color was a major source of inspiration for Milton Avery, Richard Diebenkorn, and David Hockney. Today, Matisse’s works are held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery in London. PROVENANCE: Private collection Evia Island, Greece).

Oil on paper. Featuring an animal. Signed and attr. Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901-1985) on the lower right corner. 19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.4 in). Jean Dubuffet was an integral French artist known for his primal paintings and sculptures of vernacular subjects. His adoption of the term Art Brut or raw art, referred to the art of children, prisoners, and the mentally ill, was a reaction to what he called art culturel or refined art. It was his desire to break from tradition by implementing rudimentary mark making and emulsions made from sand, tar, and trash, as seen in his work Grand Maitre of the Outsider (1946). “A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being,” the artist said. “It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.” Born on July 31, 1901 in Le Havre, France, he went on to study Académie Julian in Paris. While at school his peers included Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon, and Fernand Léger. In 1918, after attending classes for only six months he dropped out. Taking over his father’s wine business in 1924, he didn’t return to making art until the early 1940s. The artist would go on to form the Compagnie de l’Art Brut with André Breton and Slavko Kopac. The artist died on May 12, 1985 in Paris, France at the age of 83. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring an abstract composition. Signed and attr. Le Corbusier (French, 1887-1965) on the lower right corner. 38 x 46 cm (14.9 x 18.1 inches). Le Corbusier was visionary writer, theorist, and architect, and a lesser-known painter. Born Charles-edouard Jeanneret, he adopted his moniker when he began to author architectural designs and paintings. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory. His designs, however, were modernist and industrial. He fondly called houses “machines for living in,” and said that the base principal for design is that “it must be beautiful.” Le Corbusier was interested in solving what he called the problem of urban co-habitation, and produced a great number of designs for houses and apartment buildings. Le Corbusier worked at the atelier of Peter Behrens, the training grounds of other architectural masters like Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring two ducks in a surrealist sccene. Signed and attr. Marc Chagall (French, 1887-1985) on the lower left corner. 15.7 x 11.8 in. (40 x 30 cm). Honored for his distinct style and pioneering role among Jewish artists, Marc Chagall painted dream-like subjects rooted in personal history and Eastern European folklore. He worked in several mediums, including painting, printmaking, and book illustration, and his stained glass windows can be seen in New York, France, and Jerusalem. Chagall arrived in Paris in 1910 and began experimenting with Cubism, befriending painters Robert Delaunay and Fernand Leger. Chagall’s style has been described as a hybrid of Cubism, Fauvism, and Symbolism, and his supernatural subjects are thought to have significantly influenced the Surrealists. Though he actively engaged in the Parisian artistic community, art for Chagall was first and foremost a means of personal expression. He preferred to be considered separately from other artists, his imagery and allegory uniquely his own.

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring abstract composition of the sun and rays. Signed and attr. Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976) on the lower left corner. Max Ernst was a prominent German avant-garde artist who helped found both Dadaism and Surrealism. He worked in a variety of media including film, collage, painting, and frottage. In 1954, he received the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale, and a major retrospective of his work followed the next year at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He died on April 1, 1976 in Paris, France. Today, Ernst’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Max Ernst Museum in Bruhl, Germany, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring landscape scene of a pine tree. Signed (after) Paul Cezanne (French, 1839-1906) on the lower right corner. Inscription on verso. (87 x 90 cm (34.3 x 35.4 in). Paul Cezanne was the preeminent French artist of the Post-Impressionist era, widely appreciated toward the end of his life for insisting that painting stay in touch with its material, virtually sculptural origins. Also known as the "Master of Aix" after his ancestral home in the South of France, Cezanne is credited with paving the way for the emergence of twentieth-century modernism, both visually and conceptually. PROVENANCE: Private collection (North York, ON)

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring two bathing nude figures. Attr. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). 19 x 23 cm (7.5 x 9.1 inches). Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French painter and leading figure in the Impressionist movement. Renoir applied pigment with lively brushstrokes that effectively captured flickering light and atmosphere, as seen in his Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876). “For me, a picture must be a pleasant thing, joyous and pretty yes, pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life for us to fabricate still more,” he once reflected. Born on February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France, Renoir studied at the ecole des Beaux-Arts before meeting Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. He participated in the first and second Impressionist exhibitions in 1874 and 1876, which despite receiving harsh reviews achieved the goal of providing a challenge to the dominance of the Salon. Over the next decade, Renoir distanced himself from the group, painting more structured compositions, inspired by the Renaissance artworks he saw while on a trip to Italy. Towards the end of his life he suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, and was forced to paint many of his last works with a brush tied to his hand. Renoir died on December 3, 1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Gallery in London, among others. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Toronto, ON)

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring an abstract theme painting. Signed and attr. Sonia Delaunay (Ukraine born French, 1885-1979), on the lower right corner. 42.5 x 35 cm (16.7 x 13.8 in.). Sonia Delaunay was a multi-disciplinary abstract artist and key figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Alongside her husband, Robert Delaunay, she pioneered the movement Simultanism. Her exploration of the interaction between colours has created a sense of depth and movement throughout her oeuvre. Sonia Delaunay spanned the full arc of the adventure of abstraction in Europe across the first half of the 20th century. One of the early pioneers, she helped to bring art and life together in the period between the First and Second World Wars and continued to champion the cause of abstraction as a universal visual language in the post-war era. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring geometric abstract composition. Signed and attr. Dieter Roth (German, 1930-1998) on the lower right corner. 39 x 49 cm (15.3 x 19.3 inches). Considered one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period, Dieter Roth produced artworks in a great range of media, from artist’s books, graphics, drawings, and sculptures, to assemblages and installations including sound, music, and video. In 1954 Roth started to make experimental works, including his first baked sculpture (a spiral made from bread dough), forays into Op art, and kinetic sculptures. In the ’60s he made pictures and objects that incorporated chocolate and other edible materials subject to decomposition—meditations on time, decay, and metamorphosis. Critics often note that there was little to separate Roth’s life from his work; his artwork, Fussboden (Floor, 1975-92), for example, was comprised of a wooden studio floor covered with pigment and glue. To create the work, Roth removed the floor from his studio in Iceland and hung it like a painting, allowing it to function as a readymade record of his practice. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on paper, framed. Featuring an abstract composition. Signed and attr. Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916) on the lower left corner. 24 x 19.5 cm (9.7 x 7.7 inches). Franz Marc was a German artist remembered for his vividly colored Expressionist paintings and prints. Frequently depicting cubistic animals set within landscapes, Marc strove to achieve an exalted level of experience in producing his work. “I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things,” he once explained. “ [I am] trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air—trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colors that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.” Born on February 8, 1880 in Munich, Germany, he developed an interest in art from his father, the landscape and genre painter Wilhelm Marc. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he spent time travelling around Europe. In 1911, the artist helped found the Der Blaue Reiter group, alongside Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, and Alexej von Jawlensky. World War I saw him drafted into the German army, where he designed military camouflage and served in the infantry. Marc was killed by an exploding shell fragment on March 4, 1916 in Braquis, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring abstract composition. Signed Richter on the lower left corner, verso. 45 x 57 cm (17.7 x 22.5 inches). PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring a nude. Signed and attr. Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978) on the lower left corner. 63 x 85 cm (25 x 33 inch). Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist known for his depictions of dreamlike town squares and still lifes. “To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere,” he once mused. “But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.” Born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece to Italian parents, the artist went on to study at the High School of Fine Arts in Athens before attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1906. While in Germany, he developed in an interest in the mythological subject matter of Symbolist painters like Arnold Böcklin. Moving to Florence after finishing school, he began producing some of his hallmark works, among them, Enigma of an Afternoon (1910), Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914), and The Song of Love (1914). In 1917, he introduced his ideas surrounding what he called Metaphysical painting into writing, helped by his friend Carlo Carrà. Shortly thereafter—though he had gained success and influenced Rene Magritte and Andre Breton—he renounced not only Metaphysical and Surrealist painting but all of Modern art, in an article The Return of Craftsmanship (1919). Revisiting traditional iconography and techniques found in Neoclassical and Baroque paintings, the works he produced elicited disappoint in many critics of the time who failed to see the artist’s vision. Throughout the rest of his life he often made copies of his earlier Metaphysical works to profit on their popularity. De Chirico died in Rome, Italy on November 20, 1978. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. PROVENANCE: Evia Island, Greece

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring an orange color portrait. Signed and attr. Moise Kisling (French-Polish, 1891-1953), on the lower left corner. 48 x 41 cm (18.9 x 16.1 in.). Moise Kisling was a French-Polish painter best known for his highly stylized, unsettling portraits. Born on January 22, 1891 in Krakow, Austria-Hungary, he moved to Paris in 1910 where he established himself as an artist. He rented a studio in the district of Montmarte and gained contact with contemporary Parisian ex-pat painters, notably including Jules Pascin and Amedeo Modigliani. His oeuvre includes landscapes, nudes, and portraiture, all painted in his unique style: blocky, bold, simplistic environments containing stylistically exaggerated figures with wide-set limbs and eyes. Kisling died on April 29, 1953 in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France and a substantial portion of his works are housed in the Musee du Petit Palais in Geneva, Switzerland. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on wood board, featuring nudes splashing in river scene. Signed and attr. Otto Mueller (Polish, 1874-1930), signature on lower right margin. Stamped and note in German attached on verso. 9.25 x 7.25 in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm). Otto Mueller’s Expressionist paintings and prints developed from an earlier style deeply rooted in Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Jugendstil (Art Nouveau), maintaining the latter’s emphasis on graceful silhouettes. Mueller distinguished himself from his Die Brücke peers by focusing more on harmonious simplification of color than expressing raw emotion, as exemplified by Reclining Nude in the Dunes (1923). Representative of the classically elegant female nudes in landscapes for which he is most celebrated, the tempera painting depicts a woman lying face down in the sand—the strong contours of her body echo the desert topography and evoke the communion of humans and nature, rather than intense emotion more typical of Expressionism. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Perugia, Italy)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a portrait foregrounding orthodox church skyline. Signed and attr. Alexander Grigorjewitsch Tyschler (Tishler) (Russian, 1898-1980) and dated 1965 on the lower left corner. 37 x 41 cm (14.5 x 16.1 inches). Tyshler was born in Melitopol in the Ukraine in 1898; he died in 1980 in Moscow. Considered a moderate avante - garde artist of the 1920's, he exhibited in USSR, East & West Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan and the United States. His works are in the Tretyakov Art Gallery and Pushkin Museum, Moscow; the Russian Museum, Leningrad; the Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and the Cremona Foundation, Maryland. PROVENANCE: Private collection (New York, United States)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a portrait. Signed and attr. Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941) on lower right corner. 19.5 x 17.5 in (49.5 x 44.5 cm). Alexej von Jawlensky primarily painted archetypal portraits in an increasingly abstract style, eventually reducing the face to simple geometric forms in contrasting colors. Earlier on, his portraits, landscapes, and still lifes drew inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky, with whom he helped form “Der Blaue Reiter” (The Blue Rider), as well as the Fauves (especially Henri Matisse) and the Neo-Impressionists, particularly with respect to the use of vibrant color. As he adopted a progressively more Expressionist style, he began to focus solely on the human face as an object of religious meditation. These simplified spiritual portraits stemmed from the piety of his Russian Orthodoxy, elevating his work to a sort of modern religious iconography. He painted these “Meditations” exclusively toward the end of his life, during which time he suffered from debilitating arthritis. PROVENANCE: European estate

Oil on canvas, featuring abstract house, signed and attr. Chaim Soutine (Russian, 1893-1943) on lower right corner, 11.5 x 17 in (29.2 x 43.2 cm), Chaim Soutine’s style of painting bridged more traditional approaches with the developing form of Abstract Expressionism, concentrating on shape, color, and texture over representation. Ultimately, he is known for zealous landscapes of the Midi (southern France), characterized by an enchanting, fairy-tale like quality that pervades his almost-kinetic swathes of color. A friend of Amedeo Modigliani, Soutine also painted portraits and still lifes with stylistic and compositional allusions to painters he befriended and/or admired, including Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Francisco Goya, and Rembrandt. In his portraiture, female subjects in particular convey considerable personality with their awkward poses rendered in expressive, semi-abstract brushwork. Because of the hunger he faced growing up in a Lithuanian Jewish ghetto, the centrality of food and Jewish ritual are prominent in much of Soutine’s earlier work.

Oil on canvas. Featuring Eve with snake in the Garden of Eden. Russian, 19th/20th Century. 16 x 11 in. (41 x 28 cm). PROVENANCE: Private collection, North York, ON

Oil on board. Featuring an abstract composition. Signed and attr. Serge Poliakoff (Russian, 1906-1969) on the lower right corner. 50.5 x 37 cm (19.9 x 14.6 inches). Serge Poliakoff was a Russian artist associated with the School of Paris and the abstract movements of postwar Europe. Employing patches of bold color within non-representational composition, Poliakoff’s paintings are characterized by their interlocking jigsaw arrangements. “The painting should be monumental,” the artist once stated. “That is to say, larger than its dimensions.” Born on January 8, 1900 in Moscow, Russia, the young artist fled the Russian Revolution in 1917 and settled in Paris in 1923 after living in Constantinople. He studied painting at the Académie Forchot and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, but it was not until 1935, while attending the Slade School of Art in London, that he discovered the abstract works of Wassily Kandinsky and Sonia Delaunay. These two artist’s works had a profound impact on Poliakoff’s understanding of color and the works he made throughout the rest of his career. The artist died on October 12, 1969 in Paris, France. In 2015, Timothy Taylor Gallery in London held the show Serge Poliakoff: Silent Paintings, which opened to critical acclaim. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among others. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Evia Island, Greece)

Oil on canvas, framed. featuring standing nude, signed and attr. Vasily Nikolaevich Chekrigin (Russian, 1897-1922). 38.6 x 31.1 in. (98 x 79 cm), Chekrygin solo exhibitions were held in 1923 in the State Tretyakov Gallery, 1957 - Museum of VV Mayakovsky (one-day exhibition), 1969 and 2006 - in the Pushkin Museum of. Pushkin in Moscow. His work has also been exhibited in numerous exhibitions of Russian art in Russia and abroad, including the first Russian art exhibition in the Van Diemen Gallery in Berlin (1922), shows "Makovtsa" (1924-1925), Venice Biennale (1924), " Artists of the RSFSR during 15 years "at the Museum of Fine Arts (1933)," Moscow - Paris "at the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Pushkin Museum im. Alexander Pushkin (1981), "Moscow - Berlin" in the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin and GMII im. Alexander Pushkin (1996) and many others.

Oil on board. Featuring a boat scene. Signed and inscribe by the artist on the lower right corner. 32 x 40.5 cm (12.6 x 15.9 in.)

Oil on tablex (wood), featuring a tree in fall bloom, untitled piece. Signed Isa (Isabel) Peralta (Spanish, 1921-2007). 53 x 63 cm (21 x 25 inches). PROVENANCE: Donated by the artist to the Museum of the Americas (Doral, Florida, United States)

Oil on canvas, featuring a landscape and river scene. Signed and attr. NK. Kampan on the lower right margin, dated 1990. 13.4 x 23.2 in. (34 x 59 cm), He was born in southern Thailand. having never studied formally as an artist, he began his career as a professional artist while teaching at a private school. Initially, his work was met with a tepid response Then he geared to response his customers. At the first decade he painted only water color picture. He change his painting style to oil color and never back to paint water color again. He work in a Carrier of artist for more than 40 year. he died in 1993 by lung cancer. The number of his pictures was around 20,000 pieces.

Oil on board. Featuring an impressionist harbor scene. Signed and attr. Christopher Wood (British, 1901-1930) on lower right corner, 3 holes on surface, 13 x 9 inches (33 x 22.86 cm). PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom)

Oil on board. Featuring a highlands landscape scene. Signed Aubrey Ramus and attr. Francis E. Jamieson (British, 1895-1950) on the lower right corner. 29 x 39 cm (11.4 x 15.4 inches). Francis E Jamieson was an English painter who, after a holiday to the Highlands of Scotland, became obsessed with painting highland landscapes and became one of the most prolific artists of his time. The paintings of FE Jamieson were so fashionable he was contracted to paint exclusively for various furniture stores painting scenes on furniture. Jamieson is believed to have painted under eleven different artist names so he could sell more of his paintings undetected by his employers. These aliases include J McGregor, Graham Williams, Henry Stewart, HB Davis, W Richards and Aubrey Ramus. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Ontario, Canada)

Oil on board. Featuring a village landscape scene. Signed and attr. Fred Yates (British, 1922-2008) on lower right corner. 9.6 x 13.6 inches (24.5 x 34.5 cm). Fred Yates was a self-taught British artist, known for his plein-air paintings of the English landscape. Influenced by so-called naïve art, Yate’s work incorporated bold colors, loose brushwork, and child-like abstractions. His paintings are included in many private and public collections including Brighton and Hove Art Gallery, Liverpool University, the University of Warwick, Torquay Art Gallery and Russell Coates Gallery Bournemouth. PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom)

Oil on board, framed, featuring cottage, signed and attr. James Bell Anderson (British, 1886-1938) on lower right corner, 11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.7 cm),

Oil on board. Featuring landscape scene. Signed and attr. Matthew Smith (British, 1879-1959) on lower left corner. 8 x 12 inches (20.5 x 30.5 cm). Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of Art. Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism. During World War I, he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1949, Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1954. He married Gwen Salmond and their relationship broke up when he entered into an affair with Vera Cuningham. Smith lived, worked, and exhibited in England and France. PROVENANCE: Private collection (London, United Kingdom)

Oil on board,. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed and attr. Thomas Townley-Parker (British, 1822-1906). Collector's notes on verso with artist name. 7 x 9 inches (17.38 x 22.86 cm). PROVENANCE: Private collector (London, United Kingdom)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a standing girl in blue dress. Signed and attr. Walter Richard Sickert (British, 1860-1942). Signature on lower left corner. Origianl reciept attached on verso, from "Mall Manchester", dated May 1902. 15 x 12 inches (38 x 30.5 cm). Unlike the majority of the Camden Town Group, Walter Richard Sickert was recognized during his own lifetime as an important artist, and in the years since his death has increasingly gained a reputation as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century British art. He was universally acknowledged throughout his life as a colourful, charming and fascinating character, a catalyst for progress and modernity, yet someone who remained independent of groups, cliques and categories. PROVENANCE: Private Collection (Manchester, UK)

Oil on canvas. Entitled, "Midday" (1993). Signed by Albin Stanslavich Gavdzinsky (Ukrainian, 1923-2014). 60 x 70 cm (23.6 x 27.6 inches). PROVENANCE: Private collection (Thornhill, ON)

Oil on board; framed. Featuring sunset landscape scene. Signed by artist Konstantin Matveevic (Ukrainian, 1924-1994) on the lowerr right corner. 40 x 55 cm, 63 cm x 50 cm with frame. Born in Glukhova, Sumy, 1924. Studied in Odessa Art College, 1946-51. Active in Odessa, Ukraine. Began exhibiting 1951. Important shows include 'All-Union Art Exhibition', Moscow. 1951: 'All-Union Art Exhibition'. Moscow. 1952. Specialized in ballet subjects. Well-known Odeass realist. Died 1994. Plate 168. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Toronto, ON)

Oil on canvas. Featuring abstract expressionist composition. Signed and attr. Cy Twombly (American, 1928-2011) on the upper right corner. 56 x 46 cm (22 x 18.1 in). Cy Twombly emerged in the 1950s, developing a characteristic painting style of expressive drips and active, scribbled, and scratched lines. “My line is childlike but not childish,” he once said. “It is very difficult to fake…to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child's line. It has to be felt.” Early influences included Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell, but more formative would be his relationships with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, along with whom he would distance himself from the dominance of Abstract Expressionism. Twombly's work also appeared in one of the first exhibitions to explore ideas of Minimalism - “Black, White, and Grey” (1964) - along with Agnes Martin, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. In addition to his paintings, which were sometimes dismissed as “high-art graffiti,” he produced sculptures assembled from found objects, clay, and plaster, painted white to suggest an affinity to Classicism. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring abstract expressionist composition. Signed with initials and attr. Hans Hofmann (American, 1880-1966) on the lower right corner. 52 x 65 cm (20.5 x 25.5 in). Hans Hofmann began painting in Paris, where he worked alongside such titans of European Modernism as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, and Henri Matisse. His best-known early paintings combine Cubist structure with Fauvist color, as in Untitled (1943). Although he would eventually be considered one of the preeminent Abstract Expressionists, having relocated to New York in 1932, Hofmann’s primary interest was in pictorial phenomena: the illusion of three-dimensional space, composition, and the optical effects of color.

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring abstract composition. Signed and attr. Helen Frankenthaler ( American, 1928-2011) on the lower right corner. 56 x 46 cm (22 x 18.1 inches). Helen Frankenthaler was an American painter and printmaker known for her unique method of staining canvas with thin veils of color. Her practice can be seen as a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Color Field painters of the 1960s. The techniques employed in works such as Mountains and Sea (1952)—a pastel blend of oil paint and charcoal on unprimed canvas—were influential to both Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. “One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it,” she once said of her practice. “It looks as if it were born in a minute.” Born on December 12, 1928 in New York, NY, she studied with Rufino Tamayo at the Dalton School and Paul Feeley at Bennington College. During the 1950s, Frankenthaler’s work attracted attention from the influential art critic Clement Greenberg, leading to several exhibitions, including a solo show at the Jewish Museum in 1960. Following her marriage to the painter Robert Motherwell that same year, Frankenthaler continued to push her experimentation painting through using acrylics on unprimed canvas. The artist died on December 27, 2011 in Darien, CT. Today, Frankenthaler’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on paper, featuring abstract dripping, signed and Manner of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956) on the lower right corner, 8.1 x 10.4 in. (20.5 x 26.5 cm), Jackson Pollock was one of the most famous Post-War American artists. A pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, Pollock’s drip paintings ushered in a new era of non-representational art. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring abstract composition. Signed and attr. Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992) on the lower left corner. 52.5 x 27 cm (20.7 x 10.6 inches). In 1950s New York, Joan Mitchell was a lively, argumentative member of the famed Cedar Bar crowd, alongside Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and other notable first- and second-generation Abstract Expressionist painters. Based on landscape imagery and flowers, her large-scale paintings investigate the potential of big, aggressive brushstrokes and vivid color to convey emotion. "I try to eliminate cliches, extraneous material," she once said. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring railway scene. Signed and attr. John LeCours (American, 20th century) on the lower right corner. 20 x 25 cm. John LeCours is a New Hampshire based painter. John holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He takes inspiration from the natural beauty of his native New England. When he is not painting, John works as a Project Manager at Applied Graphics in Amesbury, MA. He lives in Newmarket, NH. John's creative process centers on a direct and intuitive response to nature and the elements - in the tradition and lineage of JMW Turner and James Abbott McNeil Whistler. His moment of epiphany as an artist occurred when he discovered Plein Air painting at dusk in Portsmouth Harbor. He currently maintains a loft/studio in his Townhome on the Lamprey River in Epping, NH. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Ontario, Canada)

Oil on Canvas, framed. Featuring orange and yellow abstract composition. Signed and attr. Mark Rothko (US, 1903-1970), on the lower right corner. 52 x 39 cm (20.5 x 15.4 in). Mark Rothko’s search to express profound emotion through painting culminated in his now-signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as “the sublime.” One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko’s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers’ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

Oil on board. Signed and attr. Moris Catz (Polish-American, 1932-2010) on lower right corner. Verso marked upper left corner "45 x 55 Oil, M. Katz, dated 1979". Tagged from Waddingtons's sale in 2016, lot 150. 17 x 22 inch (43 x 58 cm). Catz described his method as "Instant Art," as he completed entire paintings in as little as 30 seconds. In a 1987 event to benefit the Boy Scouts of America, Catz completed 103 paintings (selling 55 of them on the spot) in 12 hours. He is listed as a human oddity in Ripley's Believe It Or Not because of his ability to paint full works of art in less than five minutes. A 2003 review of a serious painting said "Normally this artist's works are notable only for their carefree and speedy execution, but this painting is a welcome exception."

Oil on canvas. Featuring abstract composition. Signed and attr. Norman Lewis (American, 1909-1979) on the lower right corner. 40 x 51 cm (15.7 x 20.1 in). In the late 1940s, his work became increasingly abstract. His total engagement with abstract expressionism was due partially to his disillusionment with America after his wartime experiences in World War II. It seemed extremely hypocritical that America was fighting "against an enemy whose master race ideology was echoed at home by the fact of a segregated armed forces."[5] Seeing that art does not have the power to change the political state that society was in, he decided that people should develop their aesthetic skills more, instead of focusing on political art. Tenement I (1952), Harlem Turns White (1955), and Night Walker No. 2 (1956) are all examples of his style. Twilight Sounds (1947) and Jazz Band (1948) are examples of his interest in conveying music. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring abstract expressionist painting. Signed and attr. Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991) on the lower left corner. 36 x 59 cm (14.2 x 23.2 in). Alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell is considered one of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters. His esteemed intellect not only undergirded his gorgeous, expressive paintings - frequently featuring bold black shapes against fields of color - but also made Motherwell one of the leading writers, theorists, and advocates of the New York School. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Oil on canvas. Featuring abstract expressionist composition. Signed and attr. Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) on the lower right corner. 45 x 60 cm (17.7 x 23.6 inches). Stuart Davis was an American Modernist painter, best known for his brilliantly colored abstractions of jazz musicians, street scenes, and landscapes. Davis was a conduit for American culture, and through his graphic forms and aggregate compositions, he translated his experiences into dynamic works such as The Mellow Pad (1945–1951). “My concept of form is very simple and is based on the assumption that space is continuous and that matter is discontinuous,” he once explained. “In my formal concept the question of two or more dimensions does not enter.” Born on December 7, 1892 in Philadelphia, PA, Davis studied under the Ashcan School painter Robert Henri in New York. Heeding Henri’s advice to paint the gritty everyday scenes of the city, Davis frequented back alleys and saloons while becoming involved in leftist politics. Rising to prominence after his inclusion in the famed 1913 Armory Show, it was at the exhibition that he first saw the works of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. By the 1920s, Davis’s work shifted from the realist aesthetic of his youth into the mature abstracted compositions he is best known for. Over the following decade, he became friends with the artists John Graham, Charles Demuth, and Arshile Gorky. It was during the Great Depression that Davis’s work became increasingly critical of capitalism and he began using painting as a vehicle for his political views. Unable to remain at forefront of the avant-garde during the 1950s, Davis nonetheless represented the United States in both the 1952 and 1954 Venice Biennales. He died on June 24, 1964 in New York, NY. Today, the artist’s works are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. PROVENANCE: Private European estate.

Oil on canvas. Featuring a scene of ladies leisurely enjoying afternoon tea and cofee. Signed with inscribed seal and attr. Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1929-2010) on the lower left corner. 49 x 59 cm (19.3 x 23.2 inches). Walasse Ting was an American-Chinese artist known for his fluorescent colored paintings of cats, erotic nudes, and flowers. “Paintings are my honey, colors are my flowers, velocity is what’s required of a thief—he must paint as speedily as he draws a gun,” he once mused. Born Ding Xiongquan on October 13, 1929 in Wuxi, China, though largely self-taught, Ting briefly attended the Art Academy in Shanghai. Moving to Paris in 1952, he made the acquaintance of many of the members of the CoBrA movement, namely Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, and Asger Jorn. Later in the 1950s, Ting moved to New York where immersed himself in the art scene, befriending Sam Francis and solidifying his association with Abstract Expressionism. During this period, he incorporated the bold strokes of traditional Chinese calligraphy into his practice. Finding critical acclaim, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970. The artist died on May 17, 2010 in New York, NY at the age of 80. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, among others. PROVENANCE: Private collection (California, United States)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a portrait of an old man. Artist signed Bollam on the lower right corner. 41 x 30 cm (16.1 x 11.8 in.).

Oil on canvas. Featuring landscape scene of marshlands. 20th century. 51 x 35.5 cm (20 x 14 in.)

Oil on board. Featuring a hunting scene with dogs. Signed "H. Furminger" by the artist on the lower right corner. inscribed in ink on verso " Grist Maschesk, St Catharines, 1940". 40.5 x 51 cm (15.9 x 20.1 in)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed and attr. Andrei Afanasievich Jegorov (Russian, 1878-1956) on the lower right corner. 42 x 52 cm (16.5 x 20.5 in). An accident early in life left Andrei Jegorov deaf and it may have changed the course of his life. Lost to the sounds of the world, he observed the beauty of nature in his native village Arukula in Estonia. With the help of a local pastor, Andrei was accepted to the St. Petersburg school of deaf children. Fighting financial difficulties, he managed to study at the Art Advancement Society of St. Petersburg and later at the Academy of Art where he studied in the studios of I. Repin and D. Kardovskii. Jegorov graduated from the Art Academy in 1909. His graduation painting Evening in the village reproduced in the popular magazine Niva demonstrated young artist's preference for peaceful lyrical landscapes and showcased his brilliant technical virtuosity. By 1911 he became a member of the Kuindzhi society and established a reputation as a very accomplished landscape and portrait painter. In 1913 Jegorov's works were exhibited in London at an exhibition of Russian art. After the 1917 revolution the artist and his family relocated to Ukraine where, in 1919, he began working as an enlisted artist in the army until his demobilization due to illness. In 1921 the artist returned with his family to Estonia. There his talent as a landscape painter was fully realized; he painted a number of his best works showing light-infused meadows, village scenes, city squares and genre scenes. During the Second World War Jegorov evacuated to the Chelyabinsk province (near the Urals) and lived in the village of Uvelka. Several works offered in this catalogue show charming views of that village. After the war he returned to Tallinn where he lived for the rest of his life. Andrei Jegorov had said that he drew strength from painting the beautiful nature around him. His poetic observations of the world around him are a testament to his talent and resilience as an artist and a person. Most of the works by Andrei Jegorov are in the public museum in Estonia, including the Art Museum of Estonia, KUMU. PROVENANCE: Greater Toronto Area estate

Oil on panel. Featuring a pansy still life painting. 23 x 30 cm (9.1 x 11.8 inches)

Oil on canvas. featuring a pastoral landscape scene. Signed by the artist "J. Conard", dated 1898, on the lower right corner. Small hole on the canvas surface. 37 x 45 cm (14.6 x 17.7 inches)

Oil on canvas. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed "Rollet" by the artist on the lower left corner. 25 x 33 cm (9.8 x 13.0 inches).

Oil on board. Framed. Featuring a beautiful white flowers still life painting. Signed "Tomara" by the artist on the lower left corner, with scribe in graphite. 27 x 19 inch, 70 x 50 cm.

Mixed media on paper, featuring standing nude woman, signed and attr. Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956) on the lower right corner, 9.8 x 6.3 in. (25 x 16 cm), Marie Laurencin was a French artist known for her delicate depictions of young women in idyllic landscapes. Using muted pinks, dove grays, and mint greens the artist created dreamlike visions of reality. During her life she was a sought after portrait painter of notable Parisian celebrities including Coco Chanel. Laurencin died on June 8, 1956 in Paris, France. In 1983, commemorating the 100th anniversary of her birthday, the Musée Marie Laurencin opened in Nagano, Japan. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Mixed media. Featuring abstract composition on board. Signed and attr. Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962) on the lower left corner. 54 x 45 cm (21.2 x 17.7 inches). Yves Klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1961. "Blue…is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not," he said. "All colors arouse specific ideas, while blue suggests at most the sea and the sky; and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract." Starting in the mid-1950s, Klein made retinal blue monochromes (which would prove cornerstones of Minimalism) and the pigment would also feature prominently in his Anthropometry paintings, for which Klein smeared nude women with blue pigment and used them as human brushes on canvas, sometimes in elaborate public performances. PROVENANCE: Private European collection

Pastel and watercolor on paper. Featuring a nude. Signed and attr. Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920). 11.4 x 9.1 in. (29 x 23 cm). Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian artist known for his unique elongated style of portraiture. Characterized by lengthened limbs, almond eyes, and swooping noses, the lasting influence of sculpture—particularly African masks—was prominent in the renderings of his subjects, including his wife the painter Jeanne Hébuterne. “What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of what is instinctive in the human race,” he once said. Born on July 12, 1884 in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani began to paint as a teenager and enrolled in the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Venice in 1903. Upon his move to Paris in 1906,he studied at the Académie Colarossi, finding inspiration in the works of Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The young artist’s friendship with Constantin Brancusi sparked his interest in sculpture, informing his artistic tendencies toward curvilinear rhythms and protracted vertical forms. After 1915, Modigliani devoted himself exclusively to painting, emerging as one of the School of Paris’s les maudits—the cursed—along with Chaïm Soutine, Suzanne Valadon, and her son Maurice Utrillo—so named because of their impoverished, bohemian lifestyle. Modigliani’s prodigious talent was cut short when he died at the age of 35 on January 24, 1920 in Paris, France due to complications from tubercular meningitis aggravated by alcoholism. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Mixed media on canvas, entitled, "Luz a la Libertad" (Light to Freedom). Dated 1994 and signed Pere Parramon Corominas on the lower left corner. 60 x 50 cm. (23 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.). PROVENANCE: Donated by the artist to the Museum of the Americas (Doral, Florida, United States).

Mixed media on paper. Featuring abstract composition. Signed and attr. Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940) on the lower left corner. 19 x 26 cm (7.5 x 10.2 inches). Known for his unique pictorial language and innovative teachings at the Bauhaus, Paul Klee had far-reaching influence on 20th-century modernism. In an early attempt to master color, he associated himself with the group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), working closely with friend and future Bauhaus colleague Wassily Kandinsky. While engaged with artistic theory, Klee also admired children’s art, wanting his own style to be similarly unaffected. And his dream-like pictures made him popular with the Surrealists, though he never officially became one. Klee’s work can be humorous, his fantastic drawn subjects conveying a playful sense of absurdity, as with his famous Twittering Machine (1922). Later in his career, he began to build up thicker painted surfaces and simplify his compositions, replacing precise line-work with fewer, bolder forms. Klee’s art and lessons on color theory would greatly impact later generations of artists, including, significantly, the Abstract Expressionists and Color Field painters. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Europe)

Mixed media on canvas, featuring assorted objects such as bottle cap, razor nylon and etc. attached on surface. Attribute to Damien Hirst (British, b.1965). 23.6 x 19.7 in. (60 x 50 cm). Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated "Freeze," an exhibition in a disused warehouse that showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show (which would come to define the Young British Artists), Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. PROVENANCE: Private Collection (Vienna, Austria)

Mixed media on paper. Featuring fruit on blue background. Signed and attr. Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) on lower right margin. stamped and artist signature on verso. Accompanied with certificate of authenticity. 7.9 x 11.4 inch (20.1 x 28.9 cm ). Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art - he variously mused that “art is what you can get away with” and “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes” - arhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.

Mixed media on postcard painting, featuring Venus, signed and attr. Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988) and signed with monogram JMB on verso. Subway postcard series. 6.5 x 4.5 in (16.5 x 11.4 cm), A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. "I don’t think about art while I work," he once said. "I think about life." Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage - his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent - and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Toronto, ON)

Ink on paper. Featuring the Statue of Liberty with celebrating figures. Signed and attr. Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) and dated 1989 on the lower right corner. 12.2 x 9.1 in. (31 x 23 cm). Haring developed a distinct pop-graffiti aesthetic centered on fluid, bold outlines against a dense, rhythmic overspread of imagery like that of babies, barking dogs, flying saucers, hearts, and Mickey Mouse. In his subway drawings and murals, Haring explored themes of exploitation, subjugation, drug abuse, and rising fears of nuclear holocaust. PROVENANCE: Upper New York estate

Photogram collage. Signed and attr. Man Ray (American, 1890-1976); dated 1929. On verso, inscribed G. Electric Street. 9.4 x 11 in. (24 x 28 cm). Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray adopted his pseudonym in 1909 and would become one of the key figures of Dada and Surrealism. One of the few American artists associated with these movements, Ray was exposed to European avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque at Alfred Stieglitz’s New York gallery and at the 1913 Armory Show. Ray’s photographic works are considered his most profound achievement, particularly his portraits, fashion photographs, and technical experiments with the medium, such as solarization and rayographs (an eponym for his photograms), which were celebrated by the Surrealists. “I do not photograph nature,” he once said. "I photograph my visions." In 1915 he was introduced to Marcel Duchamp, who would become a lifelong friend and influence; he subsequently moved to Paris, practicing there for over 20 years. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Central Europe)

Mixed media on paper. Featuring a woman, shouting, "BRAD!" Signed and attr. Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) on the lower margin. 8.9 x 6.3 in. (22.5 x 16 cm). When American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey in 1961, it set the tone for his career. This primary-color portrait of the cartoon mouse introduced Lichtenstein’s detached and deadpan style at a time when introspective Abstract Expressionism reigned. Mining material from advertisements, comics, and the everyday, Lichtenstein brought what was then a great taboo - commercial art - into the gallery. He stressed the artificiality of his images by painting them as though they’d come from a commercial press, with the flat, single-color Ben-Day dots of the newspaper meticulously rendered by hand using paint and stencils. Later in his career, Lichtenstein extended his source material to art history, including the work of Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, and experimented with three-dimensional works. Lichtenstein’s use of appropriated imagery has influenced artists such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Raymond Pettibon. PROVENANCE: Private estate (South America)

Acrylic and mixed media on board. Featuring a beach landscape scene. Signed and attr. Paco Sanches and dated 2008 on the lower right corner. 16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cm). PROVENANCE: Private collection (Ontario, Canada)

Photogravure of Lisa Lyon. 26.5 x 26.5 cm (10.4 x 10.4 inches). Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his nudes, floral still lifes, or self-portraits—light, shadow, composition, and form were central to all his work. “I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl,” the artist said. While Mapplethorpe did not agree with the claim that his provocative images were “shocking,” his work came under fire from the religious right in the late 1980s for its supposed obscenity, sparking a national discussion as to whether the US government should fund the arts at all. Born on November 4, 1946 in Floral Park, NY, Mapplethorpe befriended singer-songwriter and artist Patti Smith while they were both living and working in New York. Inspired by the mixed-media approaches of Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, Mapplethorpe combined Polaroids with cut text to create collages in the 1970s. He would also utilize different photographic techniques, such as photogravures and Cibachrome, throughout his career. One year before his death on March 9, 1989 at the age of 42 in Boston, MA from an AIDS-related illness, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presented the first major retrospective of his work at an American museum. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Woodblock print landscape. Signed and attr. Christine McCarthy (Australian, b.1952). Signature on bottom left corner. 5.5 x 6.7 in. (14 x 17 cm). Christine McCarthy is best known for her hand-coloured lino prints of flora and landscapes. She has been working as an artist for over 20 years. Christine gained a Diploma in Fine Art Painting from the South Australian School of Art in 1976. It was while studying Printmaking at the SA School of Art with Barbara Hanrahan, that her interest in printmaking began. The pattern of nature, particularly the line and texture of plant forms have provided the theme for much of Christine’s work.

Etching. Featuring three nudes in mythical scene. Signed and attr. Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897-1994). Paul Delvaux is known for his oil paintings that fuse elements of Surrealism with classical forms. A recurring theme in Delvaux’s work is nude women, incongruously reclining or wandering silently through classical buildings or train stations, combined with motifs such as skeletons and other unexpected objects. Deeply indebted to the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, Delvaux’s scenes are characterized by long shadows, oppressive atmospheres, and unsettling juxtapositions. Of de Chirico’s influence, Delvaux once said, "With him I realized what was possible, the climate that had to be developed, the climate of silent streets with shadows of people who can’t be seen." PROVENANCE: Private estate (Perugia, Italy)

Print 316/565. Featuring landscape scene of St. Clair Bush. Signed by Elizabeth 'Elsie' Thoonen (Canadian, 1938-2018). Dated 1996. 29.5 x 40.5 cm (11.6 x 15.9 inches). Elsie was a well-known author and illustrator of six books on the local history of Chatham-Kent. She was a celebrated artist and historian, having received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal in 2003. She was a Brownie leader for many years, for which she was recognized with the Citizen of the Year Award. Elsie painted the backdrops for the Ridge Players for over 20 years, and also painted the mural at the Blenheim Freedom Library. Elsie volunteered at many local elementary schools throughout the years and organized numerous art workshops. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Ontario, Canada)

Painting of 10 scenes of Wangchuan; print on paper booklet; 19 x 210 cm

Pair of print, framed, featuring God of Door, 61 x 39 cm (each)

Print on canvas, featuring girl portrait, signed and attr. Li Guijun (Chinese, b.1964) on lower left corner and verse, 1 of 10, dated 2007, 74 x 55 cm (29 x 21.7 in). Li Guijun is a Chinese painter who was born in 1964. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including '140 ART STUDIO' sold at Sotheby's Beijing 'Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art' in 2013 for $1,161,930. PROVENANCE: Property of a gentleman (East Toronto, Canada)

Print on paper booklet, featuring 18 Scholars, originally painted by Liu Songnian (Chinese, ?-1225), 19 x 15 cm, Liu was a Chinese figure and landscape painter during the early Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279). He was active from about 1190-1230 and is considered one of the Four Masters of the Southern Song dynasty

Print on paper, featuring a standing scholar, signed Ma Yuan (Chinese, 1160-1225), inscribed with 2 artist seal, 26 x 21 cm.

Pair of print on paper, framed, featuring Geisha, original painted by Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806), 40.5 x 35.5 cm, Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin okubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s

Woodblock rice print, framed. Featuring two figures engaged in fighting. 17 x 24 cm (6.7 x 9.5 in). Kinsen Suzuki was born in Wakayama in 1867 and studied “Nan-ga” (Japanese for “Southern Painting”, and also refered to as “Bunjin-ga” or Literati Painting) under Tsukushi Suiun. Since he could not get a job with Nan-ga painting, he studied ukiyo-e by himself and drew many kuchi-e for “koudan-bon” (book for story telling), and illustrations for Kobe Newspapers. His illustrations had reputations for their historical accuracy. It was said that 70-80% of illustrations for all the koudan books in Osaka were Kinsen’s. “Ukiyo-e” is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". PROVENANCE: Private collection (Connecticut, United States).

Laminarios Signed Print. Signed and attr. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) on the lower margin. 5.5 x 3.9 in. (13.9 x 9.8 cm). A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. Along with Georges Braque, Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, once asking, "Are we to paint what’s on the face, what's inside the face, or what’s behind it?" Responding to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), whose violent images of anguished figures rendered in grisaille made it a definitive work of anti-war art. "Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” he said. “It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy." Picasso’s sizable oeuvre includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs.

Print on canvas, featuring Black Mahakala thangka, 90 x 65 cm90 x 66 cm

Serigraph print. Featuring a stylized abstract scene of a woman figure. Signed and attr. Ting Shao Kuang(Chinese-American, born 1939) on the lower margin. 65.5 x 66 cm (25.5 x 26 in). Ting Shao Kuang is an American-Chinese figurative painter and printmaker. Best known for his contribution to the Yunnan Art School style. His calligraphic works, paintings, and handcrafted serigraphs on paper, often featured a stylized woman surrounded by vibrant abstractions. The artist’s work draws heavily on both Ancient Egyptian and Art Nouveau aesthetics. Born on October 7, 1939 in Chenggu County, China, Ting received his formal art training at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing. After graduating, he taught at the Yunnan Art Institute in Kunming, China. Ting currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. PROVENANCE: Private collection (California, United States)

Black clay sculpture of a male bust. 14 x 10 cm, 1460 grams.

Clay pottery with glaze, featuring abstract sculpture, signed and attr. Lucio Fontana (Italian, 1899-1968 ) on side, 7.5 x 7.5 cm, 447 grams, Lucio Fontana was an Argentine-Italian artist known as the founder of Spatialism. The movement focused on the spatial qualities of sculpture and paintings with the goal of breaking through the two-dimensionality of the traditional picture plane. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Kunstmuseum in Basel, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, among others.

Nude female, approximately 14.5" x 6.5" x 8"; signed by artist Richard MacDonald, 2005, Limited Edition No. 345/950, Atelier. Entitled "Angelic Crystal", white marble dust on a black granite mounted turnstile swivel base. Also includes a limited edition book. An icon of grace and quiet beauty, Angelic Crystal Atelier is a contemporary study of a young ballerina that pays homage to classical traditions. The artist created her with wings as she reminds him of angel, beautiful and serene. Angelic Crystal Atelier is cast using Carrara marble to manifest her soft beauty. The exhibition catalog is available to the buyer and included as part of the lot. Richard Macdonald (American, b.1946) is an artist based in California. He is known for his Contemporary Figurative sculptures and is part of the Realism movement. Macdonald was born in California and attended the Art Institute of Miami. Later, he attended the Los Angeles Art Center. He graduated cum laude from the college in 1971 with a BA in Professional Arts. He is classically trained as a painter and taught himself how to sculpt. Macdonald is often recognized for his work as a bronze sculptor. Many of his sculptures depict athletes and performers, including the bronze sculptures Blind Faith and The Gymnast. In 1996, Macdonald created a sculpture for the 1996 Summer Olympics entitled The Flair. He has also completed projects for various companies and businesses, including MGM Film Group Inc. and the Royal Ballet School. Macdonald did not become a full-time sculptor until 1983. Prior to his sculpting career, he worked as an illustrator. Many of his illustrations were for the NBA and the NFL. He also did illustrations for the Olympics. However, after working as an illustrator for over 10 years, Macdonald was ready to try something new. While he had created sculptures out of clay, Macdonald had never used bronze. He learned the basics of bronze sculpting and created his first sculpture. He exhibited it in his gallery, which also featured artwork by Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917–2009). The sculpture quickly sold and Macdonald continued growing his new career by taking on several major projects, such as creating a sculpture of Stephen F. Austin for the Texas sesquicentennial. His work has been featured in several exhibitions, including one held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the National Parkinson Foundation exhibition. Macdonald has also taught at several institutes, including the Art Institute of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. Macdonald actively participates in auctions and charities in an effort to raise money for various foundations, including the Boys and Girls Club and ChildHelp USA. Macdonald donated his sculpture Doves, Third Life to Celebrity Fight Night, an auction started to raise money for Parkinson''s disease research. The sculpture was sold for US$110,000. PROVENANCE: Private collector Missouri City, Texas, United States)

Asian embroidery panel, featuring flowers and butterfly, frame, 19 x 24 cm

Chinese silk embroidery, with frame, featuring pine tree and deer, made by Hangzhou Dujin Silk Factory, 50 x 26 cm

1621-1627 Chinese Ming dynasty 10 Cash brass coin, obverse lettering Tian Qi Tong Bao, reverse elttering Shi Yi Liang, Hartill 20.229, D: 47 mm, 41.55 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1661-1722 Chinese Qing dynasty brass coin, obverse lettering Kang Xi Tong Bao, reverse lettering Boo Yuwan mint (Beijing), D: 47 mm, 34.07 grams

1856-1860 Chinese Taiping Rebellion brass 1 Cash coin, obverse lettering Tai Ping Tian Guo, reverse lettering Sheng Bao, Hartill 23.6, D: 27 mm, 5.48 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1989-2018 Japanese 5 Yen brass coin, 100 pieces total, packed in two sealed rolls of Daiwa Bank, obverse lettering state title Nippon Koku on top, date on bottom; text separated on either side by newly sprouting plants each with two leaves, reverse engraved rice plant growing on left side of coin representing agriculture; over waters at bottom of coin representing fisheries; and teeth of a cog or gear around the central hole representing industry, Y-96, 379 grams (for both)

1022-1063 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Huang Song Tong Bao, characters in seal script, D: 24.93 mm

1022-1063 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zhi Ping Yuan Bao, large character, Hartill 16.161, D: 23.36 mm

1022-1063 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Jia You Yuan Bao, Hartill: 16.151, D: 25 mm, 3.57 grams. The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty also saw the first known use of gunpowder, as well as first discernment of true north using a compass. The Jurchen, a subject tribe within the Liao empire, invaded the Song territory in 1125 and another in 1127; in this latter invasion, the Jurchens captured not only the Song capital at Kaifeng, but the retired emperor Huizong, his successor Qinzong, and most of the Imperial court. The remaining Song forces regrouped under the self-proclaimed Emperor Gaozong (11271162), and withdrew south of the Yangtze River to establish the new capital at Linan (in modern Hangzhou). The Jurchen conquest of northern China and shift of capitals from Kaifeng to Linan was the dividingline between the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1022-1063 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering: Tian Sheng Yuan Bao, Hartill: 16.73, D: 25 mm, 3.78 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1022-1063 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zhi He Yuan Bao, Hartill 16.132, D: 24 mm, 3.48 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1064-1067 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zhi Ping Tong Bao, Hartill 16.166, D: 25 mm, 3.93 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1068-1085 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Xi Ning Yuanbao, Hartill 16.173, D: 25 mm, 3.64 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1068-1085 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 2 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Xi Ning Zhong Bao in seal script, Hartill 16.195, D: 29 mm, 7.29 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1068-1085 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Yuan Feng Tong Bao, in cursive script, Hartill 16.248, D: 28.46 mm

1071-1077 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 2 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Xi Ning Zhong Bao, Hartill 16.200. Rare. D: 30 mm, 8.12 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1078-1085 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 2 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Yuan Feng Tong Bao in seal script, Hartill 16.223, D: 31 mm, 7.32 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1086-1093 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Yuan You Tong Bao in seal script, Hartill 16.261, D: 25 mm, 3.95 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1086-1100 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 2 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Shao Sheng Yuan Bao, Hartill 16.302, D: 31 mm, 6.93 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1086-1100 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Yuan You Tong Bao, Hartill 16.274, D: 25 mm, 4.52 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1094-1097 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Shao Sheng Yuan Bao, Hartill 16.290, D: 25 mm, 3.84 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1098-1100 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 2 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Yuan Fu Tong Bao, Hartill 16.349, D: 31 mm, 7.57 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1101-1125 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zheng He Tong Bao, in seal script, D: 29.47 mm

1101-1125 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 2 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zheng He Tong Bao, Hartill 16.448, D: 31 mm, 7.42 grams. The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty also saw the first known use of gunpowder, as well as first discernment of true north using a compass. The Jurchen, a subject tribe within the Liao empire, invaded the Song territory in 1125 and another in 1127; in this latter invasion, the Jurchens captured not only the Song capital at Kaifeng, but the retired emperor Huizong, his successor Qinzong, and most of the Imperial court. The remaining Song forces regrouped under the self-proclaimed Emperor Gaozong (1127-1162), and withdrew south of the Yangtze River to establish the new capital at Linan (in modern Hangzhou). The Jurchen conquest of northern China and shift of capitals from Kaifeng to Linan was the dividing line between the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1102-1106 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 10 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Chong Ning Zhong Bao in slender gold script, Hartill 16.400, D: 36 mm, 11.88 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1107-1110 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Da Guan Tong Bao in slender gold script, Hartill 16.418, D: 25 mm, 3.66 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1111-1117 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zheng He Tong Bao, Hartill 16.429, D: 25 mm, 4.27 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1158-1161 Chinese Jin dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zheng Long Yuan Bao, Hartill 18.40, D: 25 mm, 4.04 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1198-113 BC Chinese Western Han dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, Hartill 8.6, D: 26 mm, 3.39 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

136-119 BC Chinese Western Han dynasty 4 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Ban Liang, Hartill 7.29, D: 24 mm, 3.28 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1403-1424 Chinese Ming dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Yong Le Tong Bao, Hartill 20.121, D: 25 mm, 3.29 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

146-190 Chinese Eastern Han dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, with chiseled rim (Zao Bian), Hartill 10.28, D: 19 mm, 1.06 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1522-1567 Chinese Ming dynasty 10 Cash bronze coin, obvere lettering Jiajing Tongbao, reverse lettering Shi Yi Liang, Hartill 20.137, D: 42 mm, 28.62 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

175-119 BC Chinese Western Han dynasty 4 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Ban Liang, Hartill 7.16, D: 25 mm, 2.39 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

206 BC-25 AD Chinese Western Han dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, D: 25.61 mm

206BC-9AD Chinese Western Han dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, with half moon mark, Hartill 10.34, D: 26 mm, 3.53 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

220-180 BC Chinese Qin/Han type bronze coin, obverse lettering Ban Liang, Hartill 7.8, D: 28 mm, 3.43 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

220-420 Chinese Western Jin dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, G&F B12.7, D: 22 mm, 1.63 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

25-75 Chinese Eastern Han dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, Hartill 10.32 variation, G & F B4.1, D: 26 mm, 2.65 grams. Scarce variety. The Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms (220-265 CE). It was founded by the peasant rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9-23 CE) of the former regent Wang Mang. This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE) and Eastern Han (25-220 CE). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the "Han people". PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

446-456 Chinese Western Wei dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, Hartill 10.25, D: 23 mm, 2.82 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

618-907 Chines Tang dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Kai Yuan Tong Bao, D: 25.24 mm

7-23 Chinese Wang Mang Xin dyansty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Huo Quan, D: 22.63 mm

7-23 Chinese Wang Mang Xin dynasty 50 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Da Quan Wu Shi, Hartill 9.2, D: 27 mm, 4.28 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

7-23 Chinese Wang Mang Xin dynasty 25 Zhu bronze spade coin, obverse lettering Huo Bu, Hartill 9.31, 57 x 23 mm, 18.11 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

7-23 Chinese Wang Mang Xin dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Huo Quan, Hartill 9.32, D: 24 mm, 2.88 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

73-49BC Chinese Western Han dynasty 5 Zhu bronze coin, obverse lettering Wu Zhu, with crescent mark, Hartill 8.10, D: 26 mm, 3.72 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

961-978 Chinese Southern Tang Kingdom 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Kai Yuan Tong Bao in seal script, Hartill 15.99, D: 25 mm, 3.43 grams. In the second year of Qiande (961), Li Yu ascended the throne, and the resources of the country being exhausted, his minister Han Xizai obtained permission to cast coins. These were on the Kai Yuan model, but in seal writing devised by the scholar Xu Xuan. This coin was slightly larger than the old Kai Yuans, and had broader rims, and was found convenient by both the government and the people. Four chinese characters Kai Yuan Tong Bao (in seal script) / Nail mark in the upper left. 24.5mm, 3.42 grams. Issued 961-978 AD. Schjöth #446 var; Hartill 15.99 var. In the second year of Qiande (961), Li Yu ascended the throne, and the resources of the country being exhausted, his minister Han Xizai obtained permission to cast coins. These were on the Kai Yuan model, but in seal writing devised by the scholar Xu Xuan. This coin was slightly larger than the old Kai Yuans, and had broader rims, and was found convenient by both the government and the people. Southern Tang (also referred to as Nantang) was one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China created following the Tang Dynasty from 937-975. Southern Tang replaced the Wu Kingdom when Li Bian (a.k.a. Xu Zhigao) deposed the emperor Yang Pu. The capital was located in Jinling (also known as Xidu), located in present-day Nanjing in Jiangsu Province. The territory comprised parts of modern Fujian, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and the whole of Jiangxi Province. Southern Tang was conquered in 976 by the Northern Song Dynasty. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

960-976 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering: Song Yuan Tong Bao, Hartill: 16.3, D: 25 mm, 3.67 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

976-997 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Tai Ping Tong Bao, Hartill: 16.16, D: 25mm, 3.50 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

976-997 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Zhi Dao Yuan Bao, Hartill 16.41, D: 25 mm, 3.80 grams. Four Chinese characters (grass script, reading clockwise) Zhi Dao Yuan Bao / Blank. 25mm, 3.52 grams. Issued in 995-997 AD. Schjöth #468; Hartill 16.41. The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty also saw the first known use of gunpowder, as well as first discernment of true north using a compass. The Jurchen, a subject tribe within the Liao empire, invaded the Song territory in 1125 and another in 1127; in this latter invasion, the Jurchens captured not only the Song capital at Kaifeng, but the retired emperor Huizong, his successor Qinzong, and most of the Imperial courtThe remaining Song forces regrouped under the self-proclaimed Emperor Gaozong (11271162), and withdrew south of the Yangtze River to establish the new capital at Linan (in modern Hangzhou). The Jurchen conquest of northern China and shift of capitals from Kaifeng to Linan was the dividing line between the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

998-1022 Chinese Northern Song dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Tian Xi Tong Bao, one dot Tong, Hartill 16.68, D: 25.87 cm

756-762 Tang dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Qian Yuan Zhong Bao, reverse engraved crescent below, Hartill: 14.116, D: 24 mm, 4.04 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

4 assorted Chinese Qing dynasty and Republic era coins, of 1 Shunzhi Tongbao, 1 Kangxi Tongbao, 2 Republic 10 Wen copper coins, Diameter: 3.1 cm, 25 grams

1193 Chinese Southern Song dynasty 2 Cash iron coin, obverse lettering Shao Xi Yuan Bao, reverse lettering Han Si, Hartill 17.350, D: 30 mm, 6.69 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

1644-1911 Chinese Qing dynasty brass flower coin, obverse and reverse lettering Fu and Shou in different fonts, CCC Vol. I, 1474, D: 40 mm, 19.03 grams

1644-1912 Chinese Qing dynasty brass flower coin, obverse engraved Bagua and immortals, reverse lettering mantra, D: 43 mm, 19.67 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer

4 assorted Chinese bronze flower coins and token, one Wuzi Dengke, Sanyang Kaitai, 2 Zhangui Quxie and Bagua, one bamboo token value 10 Gen, lettering Xie Tang Shui Zao, Coin D: 24.3 mm, 5.5 grams each, token H: 85.3 mm, 3.3 grams

Seven assorted Chinese coins, one 1646-1659 Southern Ming Yongli Tongbao 1 Fen bronze coin (Hartill 21.79), one Qing dynasty Daqing Yinbi copper coin, one 1094-1097 Northern Song Shaosheng Yuanbao bronze coin(Hartill 16.291), one 1107-1110 Northern Song Daguan Tongbao bronze coin (Hartill 16.418), one 1086-1093 Nothern Song Yuanyou Tongbao bronze coin (Hartill 16.262), one 1004-1007 Northern Song Jingde Yuanbao bronze coin (Hartill 16.49), one 1662-1722 Qing Kangxi Tongbao Beijing Mint (Hartill 225), D: 23.85-38.22 mm, 43.36 grams total

410 - 479 Chinese Southern Dynasties, Liu Song bronze coin casting mold fragments, for the making of Si Zhu's (Four Zhu).  These fragments show some previously unknown types with dots on both the obverse and reverse, 18-22mm, 8.8 grams

1533-1547 Russian Moscow Ivan IV Vasiliyevich silver coin, AR denga, 11.9 x 8.4 mm. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Virginia, United States)

1696-1725 Russian Peter the Great silver kopeck, 9.5 x 6.7 mm. PROVENANCE: Private colllection (Virginia, United States)

1923 China Republic 1000 Dollars banknote, Kwang Tung Provincial Treasury, serial number 684372, wrong spelling "TBEASUBY" on reverse, 15.5 x 7.8 cm

Chinese large Peking glass snuff bottle, of flatten round form body, set with metal base and lion form ears, decorated with butterfly and floral pattern, four-character Guangxu mark on base, 13.5 x 12 cm, 359 grams

Six (6) assorted Chinese snuff bottles, of 5 porcelain in various shape, two of them with marks on base, one of Yongzheng mark, of 1 Peking glass, carved with butterflies, 8 x 5 cm, 345 grams (total)

Hongshan style hardstone carved pendant, of cicada form, pierced for suspension, 5.5 x 2.2 cm, 52 grams

Hongshan style hardstone carved pendant, of duck form, pierced for suspension,

Hongshan hardstone carved pendant, of face form, pierced for suspension, 5.8 x 5 cm, 80 grams

Hongshan hardstone carved pendant, of human form, pierced for suspension, 7.2 x 2.8 cm, 63 grams

6 assorted Chinese stone carved pendants, carved in various form including boy, cicada, gourd and peanut, Total weight: 150.2 g, Density: 2.62-3.32, 1.6 x 3.7 - 5.5 x 4.2 cm.

Chinese green hardstone beaded necklace. 33 cm, 38 grams, density: 2.37

Chinese green hardstone carved pendant with necklace, carved in peanut form, necklace comprised of round beads and gourd shape beads, Length: 30 cm, Pendant: 5 x 2.5 cm, 45 grams, density: 2.30

Chinese hardstone necklace, set with 5 hardstone in various shapes, 29 cm, 60 grams

Chinese white hardstone beaded necklace with jade pendant. 32 cm, 37 grams, density: 2.60

Tibetan tianzhu beads necklace, comprised of two tainzhu beads, Length: 25 cm, Pendant: 5 x 1 cm, 38 grams

Silver bracelet set with blue stones. 18 cm, 21 grams

Two (2) assorted Chinese lapis and agate bracelets, ID: 4.5 - 5.5 cm, 71 grams

3 assorted Chinese stone carved jewellery, 2 bracelets, one pendant with necklace,Total weight: 164.4 grams, Length: 8-30 cm.

6 assorted Chinese stone carved bangles and bracelets, Total weight: 390.5 g, Density: 2.57-2.59, Inner diameter: 55.37-67.47 mm.

Six (6) assorted Chinese stone jewellery, of 5 necklaces and 1 bracelet, Total weight: 494.6 grams, length: 23-30cm.

Chinese old hardstone carved bowl, of compressed globular body, supported on three leges, flanked with three human head form ear, 8 x 17 cm, 1885 grams

Chinese Shoushan stone carved seal, of rectangle seal section, surmounted by a crouching lion, with empty seals face, 10 x 5 cm, 315 grams

Chinese Shoushan stone carved seal, of rectangle seal section of rounded top, carved with landscape and figures on surface, signed Gao Feng, with 5 characters in seal script on seal face, minor chips on surface, 12 x 5.1 cm, 752 grams

Fine Chinese Shoushan stone carved seal, of square seal section, with empty seal face, 9.8 x 3.5 cm, 439 grams

Chinese Tianhuang stone carved seal; of square seal section; surmounted by a elephant; four characters Zhu Zhi Chi (late Ming collector and connoisseur) Zuo in semi-cursive on side; four characters in seals script on seal face; crackles; with certificate; 15 cm x 5.2 cm, 811 grams. PROVENANCE: Private collection (California, United States)

Chinese large ink stone; of table form; carved with lotus flower and bats; inscribed with Chinese calligraphy on back and signed by artist; Guangxu 7 Year mark on back; 50 cm x 19 cm, 8kg

Burma green jadeite carved bangle, of rounded outside and flatten inside, of pale green tone with apple green tinge, Outer Diameter: 6.9 cm, Inner Diameter: 6 cm, 49 grams, Density: 3.27

Gold bracelet set with green jade and white stones. -20.5 cm, 16 grams

Necklace with strands of small jade beads. 39 cm, 203 grams

Fine Chinese jade toggle, carved kneeling dog with legs under body. The stone of white with brown rivering. Suspend onto green hanging string. H: 3.5 cm, L: 5 cm, 90 grams, density: 2.84. Provenance: T. Ng Collection Toronto.

Chinese archaistic Han style green jade carved bowl; of globular body, tapering to bottom; carved with Taotie pattern; of yellowish green tone; H: 10 cm, W: 18 cm, L: 11 cm, 1383 grams

Chinese yellow jade carved cong; of round cylinder inside and two angular edges outside; hollowed in the middle; carved with archaistic animal pattern; 15 cm x 10.5 cm, 1151 grams

Chinese spinach archaistic jade carved disk, of square shape with open working carving of dragon, with a round hole in middle, carved with geometric pattern and dots, 21 x 21.5 cm, 693 grams

Chinese spinach archaistic jade carved disk, of curved semi-oval shape, carved with open work dragon, decorated with Taotie and dots pattern, 11.5 x 32 cm, 452 grams

Chinese yellow archaistic jade carved ritual Yue, of a large axe form, with a dragon on top, carved with Taotie pattern, 32.5 x 15 cm, 798 grams

Chinese old green jade carved statue, featuring standing rooster on craggy rock, 33 x 19 cm, 2833 grams

Burma green jadeite carved pendant, carved in dragon form, of apple green tone, pierced for suspension, 5.5 x 3 cm, 28 grams, Density: 3.31

Burma icy green carved pendant; carved in bamboo from; of icy green tone with apple green tinge; pierced for suspension; 5 cm x 3.2 cm, 32 grams, density: 3.27

Burma lavender jadeite carved bangle, of rounded outside and flatten inside, of light lavender tone, Outer Diameter: 7 cm, Inner Diameter: 5.8 cm, 50 grams, Density: 3.30

Burma green jadeite carved toggle, of pebble form, carved with fish and lotus, of pale green tone with apple green tinge, 6 x 4.8 cm, 138 grams, Density: 3.21

Stamped 14k yellow gold ring. Set with large amethyst. Size 8, 6 grams

Stamped 10k white gold hoop earrings. Set with cubic zirconia. Retail value $300.

Stamped 14k yellow gold earrings. Set with pink heart cut cubic zirconia. Retail value $160.

Stamped 925 silver earrings. Set with cubic zirconia. Retail value $160

One stamped 10K white gold ring set with 1 round brilliant cut diamond in four claws setting. 2.9 grams. Accompanied with appraisal certificate.

Stamped 14K white gold ring, set with one 1.15 ct. round brilliant natural diamond and 0.35 ct. round diamonds. Accompanied with appraisal certificate. 2.40 grams.

Stamped 14KT white gold diamond ring, set with 1.02 ct. natural diamond. Accompanied with appraisal certificate. 3.10 grams.

Stamped 925 silver necklace and heart shaped pendant. Set with emeralds and white stones. Retail value $120.

Stamped 925 silver ring. Set with one oval cut emerald. Retail value $400.

Beaded necklace. Set with assorted cut purple garnet. 32 cm, 109 grams

One bunch of 100 PC gold plated necklace, 20 cm, 313 grams

Antique gold heart locket and necklace with photo. Set with one diamond. 27 cm, 5 grams

Burma green and lavender jadeite carved pendant, of peace pendant form, with 925 silver bail and set with gemstone, 3.5 x 3.5 cm, 18 grams

Silver ring. Set with one oval cut white jade. Size 8, 13 grams

Stamped 925 silver rose plated tennis bracelet. Set with 7.70ct twenty two oval cut, enhanced intense light pink colored, natural morganite, beryl. Certified replacement value $1200. 10.7 grams

Stamped 925 silver bracelet. Set with various colored pearls and clear beads. Retail value $200.

Lady's ring, set with one large white pearl and white stones. Inner Diameter: 1.6 cm, 5 grams

Stamped 925 silver pendant. Set with one 502.77ct emerald cut, dark, purplish-red colored, opaque ruby. certified replacement value $20823. 129 grams

Stamped 18K yellow gold lady ring, set with one pear cut ruby and eleven white stones. Inner Diameter: 1.7 cm, 5 grams

Lady's ring, set with ten marquise cut rubies and white stones. Inner Diameter: 1.6 cm, 2 grams

Stamped 925 silver bracelet. Set with 264.85ctw oval cut, midnight blue sapphire. Certified replacement value $18836. 69.50 grams

Stamped 925 Silver lady ring, set with one blue sapphire. Inner Diameter: 1.7 cm, 3 grams.

Stamped 925 silver necklace, set with silver balls. 50 cm, 61 grams

Stamped 925 silver truck pendant with fashion cord. Retail value $160.

Stamped 925 silver necklace and pendant. Set with large round cut turquoise. 27 cm, 73 grams

Silver owl necklace. Set with turquoise beads. Length: 44 cm, Stone Dia: 4 cm, 44 grams

Silver reversible necklace with large pendant. Set with turquoise and stones. 35 cm, 121 grams

10 Assorted Chinese pendants, set with various gemstones, Total weight: 258.3 grams, 8 x 4.5-4.5 x 4.5 cm.

Genuine 0.25ct blue diamonds with assorted sizes.

Paolo Gucci ladies' watch, serial # PG439WS, ID: 4 cm, 41 grams

Puma ladies' quartz watch, pink leather band, ID: 4 cm, 26 grams

Vintage DOXA antimagnetic mechanical hand winding watch, genuine leather band, not working properly, L: 23 cm, D: 2.9 cm

Vintage Helvetia Allround Men's watch, mechanical hand winding, with genuine leather band, in working condition, L: 23.5 cm, D: 2.9 cm

Vintage Mido Ocean Star men's watch, automated date display, 40 micron gold plated dial, working condition, L: 23.5 cm D: 3 cm

Vintage Onsa 17 Rubis men's watch, mechanical hand winding, leather band, in working condition, L: 24 cm, D: 3 cm

Two (2) assorted watches, one Seiko 6A00T quartz watch, 17 grams, one i watch ladies' watch, 46 grams

Omega pocket watch, with Chinese Zodiac timing dial, in working condition, 6 x 4.5 cm, 72 grams

18th Century European Rococo style bronze mantel clock, with adjust key and pendulum bob, in working condition, 53 x 30 cm, 10 kg

Canadian Forestville Clock Company table chime clock, with adjust key, 26 x 40 cm

Ten assorted People's Republic of China medals, with inscriptions on the reverse. 1.3 x 5.5 cm, 4 grams

Vintage Canadian postage stamps collection book, 35 pages, over a thousand assorted Canadian stamps, 9 x 29 x 26 cm, 2870 grams

Chinese bronze censer, of compressed globular body, supported on three legs, cover surmounted by a bird, carved with curves and birds on body, 9 x 9 cm, 351 grams

Chinese bronze censer, of compressed globular body, flanked with two dragon form handles, supported on three Suanni form legs, carved with tigers on surface, cover surmounted by a crouching lion, four-character Ming Xuande mark on base, 23 x 20 cm, 1446 grams

Chinese bronze ding vessel; of globular body, supported on three lion form legs; flanked with two dragon handles; two-character mark on base; 11.5 cm x 18.5 cm, 1584 grams

Pair of Chinese cloisonne bronze vase; of gourd form; supported on short foot rim; decorated with plum flower and cloud pattern; 13 cm x 7.5 cm, 390 grams (pair)

Chinese gilt star form decoration, of open work stellated dodecahedron form body, set with various stones, with hanging chain, 26 x 26 cm, 742 grams

Chinese bronze cloisonne wagon miniature, of green hardstone wheels wagon with Chinese style pavilion on it, hauled by elephant, with wood stand, 24 x 32 cm, 1122 grams

Chinese gilt bronze bodhisattva statue, featuring seated Guanyin, 22 x 14.5 cm, 1465 grams

Chinese gilt bronze statue, featuring standing Mahakala statue, 28 x 18 cm, 1764 grams

Chinese gilt bronze bodhisattva statue, featuring seated Manjushri Bodhisattva on lotus pedal base, holding sword, 17 x 20.5 cm, 881 grams

Chinese gilt bronze buddha statue, featuring seated Medicine Buddha on lotus pedal base holding tower, with crossed thunderbolt on base, 14.5 x 22.5 cm, 1479 grams

Chinese large gilt bronze Buddha statue, featuring seated Shakyamuni Buddha on lotus pedal base, 21.5 x 27 cm, 4139 grams

Chinese metal Buddha statue, depicting seated Shakyamuni Buddha on lotus pedal base, 20 x 11 cm, 1421 grams

Tibetan bronze Vajrasattva statue, depicting seated Vajarasattva on lotus pedal base, with thunderbolt in right hand and thunderbolt bell in left hand, H: 23 cm, W: 13.5 cm, 955 grams

Chinese rosewood carved jewellery box, of rectangle shape, carved with dragon and clouds, with brass hardware, 26 x 10 x 15 cm, 1007 grams

Chinese old wood carved censer, of compressed globular body standing on base, 22 x 19 cm, 1435 grams

Chinese hard wood carved brush pot, of cylinder form body with beveled mouth rim, 9.5 x 7.5 cm, 145 grams

Chinese Zitan wood carved brushpot, carved with galloping horses on surface, 15 x 9 cm, 757 grams

Chinese fine huanghuali wood brush pot; of cylinder form body, slightly tapering to bottom; 12.3 cm x 11 cm, 580 grams

Chinese antique walnut; polished naturally; 4.5 x 4.2 cm, 24 grams (each)

Chinese wood carved statue, featuring a old fishing man, 36 x 12 cm, 945 grams

Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl; of rounded mouth rim; tapering to bottom; supported on short foot rim; painted with dragons; decorated with ruyi pattern; six-character Qing Kangxi mark on base but 19th century; H: 10.2 cm, D: 20.2 cm, 517 grams

Chinese small Ge kiln porcelain stem bowl; of lobed rim; crackle glazed on celadon ground; H: 6 cm, D: 12 cm, 241 grams

Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl with basin of compressed cylinder form body, flanked with two ears, painted with mountainous landscape, 22 x 15 cm, 1717 grams

Japanese Satsuma ware porcelain plate; featuring women figures in kimono; with maker's signature Hayakawa on base; H: 2.5 cm, D: 18 cm, 257 grams

Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vase; 19th to 20th century; of cylindrical body tapering to the base; surmounted by a waisted neck; painted with scholars and attendants; four-character Lin Gu Hua Fang mark on base; H: 44 cm, D: 19 cm, 3258 grams

Chinese fine gilt Famille Rose porcelain vase; of ovoid body with slender neck; the shoulder with a moulded chilong dragon; painted with dragon and phoenix amidst floral scrollwork; four-character Qianlong mark on base; H: 23 cm, D: 12 cm, 517 grams

Chinese Geyao style porcelain vase; of compressed globular body with long narrowed neck; extruded edges on neck; covered with crackle celadon glaze; Zhang Jia Yao mark on shoulder; H: 16 cm, W: 11 cm, 326 grams

Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vase; of baluster form with slim neck; featuring flowers and birds on red orange ground; six-character Qianlong mark on base; Republic period; H: 38 cm, D: 15 cm, 1543 grams

Chinese Song Guanyao style porcelain vase, of baluster lobed body with two tube form ear, covered by celadon crackle glaze, with Guan mark on base, 16 x 10 cm, 335 grams

Chinese Qianjiang painted porcelain vase; of baluster form with double beast-shaped handles on neck; featuring scholar, boy and crane under pine trees; signed Xu Shanqin and inscribed with one artist seal on body; H: 43 cm, D: 20 cm, 3153 grams

Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vase; of globular body with slender neck; the body painted with panels enclosing Western figures; the yellow ground decorated with floral scrollwork; four-character Yongzheng mark on base; H: 19 cm, D: 10 cm, 284 grams

Chinese Republic era porcelain jar, of oval body with lid, lid surmounted by a spider, painted with fish with grass,signed Deng Bishan (Chinese, 1874-1930), 12.5 x 18.5 cm, 822 grams

Chinese Famille Rose porcelain jar with cover; of baluster form with hat-shaped cover; featuring songbirds perching on flowering branch; six-character Kangxi mark on base; H: 45 cm, D: 20 cm, 2730 grams

Chinese blue and white copper red large porcelain jar; Yuan or Ming period; of compressed globular body tapering to the base; surmounted by a straight mouth rim; the exterior painted with striding three-clawed dragon amidst flaming clouds; all reserved on crackle-glazed ground; H: 27 cm, W: 33 cm, 5 kg

Pair of Chinese export blue and white porcelain jars; 17th to 18th century; of ovoid body with short neck connecting to lipped rim; painted with riverside village scenery on body; H: 14.5 cm, W: 8.5 cm, 776 grams

One pair of Chinese fine Ducai porcelain jar; of baluster body surmounted by knobbed covers; painted with floral and leafy pattern on body and cover; six-character Yongzheng mark on base; H: 47 cm, W: 27.5 cm, 5 kg each

Chinese imperial Famille Rose porcelain planter and matching stand; the flowerpot of deep rounded sides with splayed foot; the matching stand of shallow sides on short foot; both exterior painted with passion flower scroll on orange-glazed ground; six-character Jiajing red mark on base; H: 21 cm, D: 24 cm, 2678 grams

Chinese blue and white porcelain censer; of drum-shaped body decorated with two band of raised bosses; painted with crouching dragon amidst clouds; unglazed base; H: 12 cm, D: 8.5 cm, 211 grams

Chinese porcelain censer, the squatted censer sat on three round foot, overall glazed in celadon. D: 19 cm, H: 5.5 cm.

Chinese Flambe-glazed porcelain censer; Song style; well-potted with three ruyi-shaped feet; decorated with two bands of raised bosses; one-character Wu(meaning number five) mark on base; H: 7.5 cm, D: 19.5 cm, 1088 grams

Chinese blue and white porcelain figure; Qing period; depicting a ferocious crouching chilong detailed with bushy eyebrows, curly mane and strong claws; the body painted in cobalt blue with dragon scales; unglazed base; H: 16 cm, W: 14 cm, L: 45 cm, 2647 grams

Chinese Sancai pottery teapot; of globular body with bamboo-shaped handle and spout; H: 18 cm, D: 15 cm, 1017 grams

Chinese Longquan celadon glazed porcelain inverted ewer; Song style; of globular body with splayed foot rim; surmounted by a standing guardian lion Fu dog and connecting to a beast-shaped spout; the ewer intended to be filled from the pierced base; H: 27 cm, W: 20 cm, 1037 grams

Chinese zisha teapot; of globular body with bamboo-shaped handle and spout; carved in low relief with bamboo leaves and plum blossom branches on body; four-character Wu Jianqiang Zhi artist seal mark on base; H: 10.5 cm, W: 15 cm, 231 grams

European handmade brass tray coffee table, of oval shape with curvy edge, carved with floral pattern inside, with foldable wood stand, 115 x 73 cm

Chinese black lacquer wood cabinet table, with opened doors, three shelves in side, with lock, outside decorated with floral pattern, 86 x 71 x 35 cm

Fine Chinese rosewood bed chair, of mixed chair and bed form, with four curved legs, 170 x 56 x73 cm

Pair of Chinese red lacquer wood stools, of baluster form, supported on 5 curved legs, decorated with floral and geometric patterns on surface, 48 x 43 cm

Japanese black lacquer wood panel, set with stone, featuring chrysanthemum and birds, with artist Shibata seal, 76 x 42 cm

Four Chinese famille rose porcelain plaque, of rectangle shape, with wood frame, featuring immortals, decorated with floral and leafy pattern, signed and attr. Wang Dafan (Chinese, 1888-1961), with 4 artist seals, 66 x 28 cm each

Chinese black lacquer wood screens, of six rectangle shape panels, painted with sky palace scene with fairies, 180 x 41 cm

Postcard of Bambi concept, with autograph of Tyrus Wong (Chinese-born American, 1910-2016), Wong was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the most-influential and celebrated Asian-American artists of the 20th century. Wong was also a film production illustrator, who worked for Disney and Warner Brothers.