Record Sales
On Tuesday May 29, 2001, Lawren Harris's Baffin Island painting was sold for a record of $2.2 million (record up to that time). Before the auction, experts predicted the painting done by one of the original Group of Seven would top $1 million, but no one expected it to fetch more than twice that amount. The painting, which has always been in private hands, depicts icy white mountains with a dramatic blue sky.
Lawren Harris's Algoma Hill was stored in a backroom closet in a Toronto hospital for years and was almost forgotten about until cleaning staff found it. The hospital sold it at a Sotheby's auction, in 2005, for $1.38 million CDN.
On May 23, 2007, Pine Tree and Red House, Winter, City Painting II by Harris came up for auction by Heffel Gallery in Vancouver, BC. The painting was a stunning canvas from 1924 that was estimated to sell between $800,000 - $1,200,000. The painting sold for a record-breaking $2,875,000 (premium included).
Harris's Nerke, Greenland painting sold at a Toronto auction for $2 million (four times the pre-sale estimate) on November 24, 2008
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