POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART: Sales Guide for Art Auction at Heffel Fine Art Auction House, 25 May 2016, Vancouver, British Columbia (2016 1st Ed.)

Author: Various. Published by Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Vancouver, BC., 2016, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 130 pages includes index. 

POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART: Sales Guide for Art Auction at Heffel Fine Art Auction House, 25 May 2016, Vancouver, British Columbia, is a specialized 117-page fine art auction catalogue and reference guide published by Heffel Fine Art Auction House, for their Canadian and international modern masterpieces auction sale. 

Acting as both a marketing tool for the live auction and an enduring historical sales guide, the text provides a comprehensive breakdown of prominent Canadian and international modern masterpieces slated for bidding. Rather than operating as a traditional narrative, the volume functions as an authoritative, thoroughly researched record featuring detailed provenance histories, previous exhibition backgrounds, literature citations, and official pre-sale price estimates for each item.

Furthermore, the catalogue contains scholarly, essay-style commentary written by in-house specialists and external art historians, alongside high-fidelity visual reproductions to contextualize the historical significance of the featured lots. Designed for serious collectors, dealers, and institutions, the book serves to document market trends, establish institutional provenance, and guide bidding strategies for the strategic high-value transactions of the Spring 2016 session.

DID YOU KNOW? The inclusion of Courtenay, British Columbia, on the cover art makes this volume exceptionally special, as it features E.J. Hughes's iconic 1949 masterpiece, The Post Office at Courtenay, B.C. on the cover of this book. This vibrant, historically rich canvas depicts a nostalgic local landmark from Hughes's highly coveted peak period, and it had spent decades hidden away in elite eastern private collections before being repatriated by Heffel for this sale. Carrying a premier pre-sale estimate of $600,000 to $800,000, its prominent placement on the cover transformed the book into an enduring regional treasure and a profound point of pride for Vancouver Island collectors...

Oh, and by the way, E.J. Hughes's 1949 oil painting The Post Office at Courtenay, B.C. sold for a record setting price of  $1.593 million at the Heffel Vancouver auction, thank you very much!

For more info on the vibrant City of Courtenay, please see: Courtenay | North Central Vancouver Island | Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands | Travel British Columbia

For more info on E.J. Hughes, please see: Home - E.J. Hughes Gallery

ISBN: 9781927031216  

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