Emily Carr painting bought for US$50 nets $290K at Toronto auction

An Emily Carr painting that sold for US$50 astatine an property merchantability has fetched C$290,000 astatine a Toronto auction.

Heffel Fine Art Auction House says “Masset, Q.C.I.” sold for $290,000 astatine its autumn merchantability Wednesday night, supra a presale estimation of $100,000 to $200,000.

Including a committee paid by the purchaser to the auction house, the full terms came to $349,250.

The lipid connected canvas coating depicts a carved grizzly carnivore atop a memorial totem rod successful the colony of Masset, B.C., connected Haida Gwaii.

It was discovered respective months agone astatine a barn merchantability successful the Hamptons, wherever a New York-based creation trader bought it for US$50.

“Masset, Q.C.I.” was painted successful 1912 arsenic portion of Carr’s efforts to make an extended grounds of the creator practice of First Nations communities successful British Columbia.

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It’s believed to person been a acquisition to Carr’s person Nell Cozier and her hubby successful the 1930s and has been hanging successful a barn successful the Hamptons since. The mates had moved to the country to enactment arsenic caretakers for a ample property aft primitively surviving successful Victoria.