The 1926 Rocky Mountain oil canvas Mountain Forms, now owned by the Imperial Oil Co., will be auctioned in November at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House in Yorkville Six of the top 10 paintings sold at a Canadian art auction in recent years are by Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris. He was born in Brantford in 1885 and died in Vancouver in 1970. Harris is a revered part of Canadian art history but his fame has grown in recent times after an international exhibition that took his work to places like Los Angeles and Boston. The exhibition was given added impetus by the role of actor Steve Martin, an owner of Harris art, who co-curated the exhibit. Guessing about the value of the canvas, a depiction of Mount Ishbel in the Rocky Mountain Sawback range near Lake Louise, runs to $3 and $5 million. Nice profile of Harris in Toronto Life
Mountain Forms
