{"id":83100,"date":"2016-11-24T02:40:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=83100"},"modified":"2016-11-24T02:40:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:40:29","slug":"lawren-harris-mountain-forms-painting-sells-record-setting-11-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/11\/24\/lawren-harris-mountain-forms-painting-sells-record-setting-11-2m\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawren Harris ‘Mountain Forms’ painting sells for a record setting $11.2M"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMountain Forms\u201d depicts Mount Ishbel in the Sawback Range in the Rocky Mountains. (Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO\u2014The Lawren Harris painting \u201cMountain Forms\u201d smashed the Canadian art record Wednesday by selling for over $11.2 million, more than double the previous record set in 2002.<\/p>\n

Heffel Fine Art Auction House had estimated the 1926 oil canvas would fetch between $3 million and $5 million.<\/p>\n

The buyer had bid the price of the landscape painting up to $9.5 million, but an 18 per cent buyer’s premium boosted the final tally to $11,210,000,<\/p>\n

The sale of the Harris piece has shattered the record set in 2002 when Paul Kane’s 1845 oil canvas \u201cScene in the Northwest \u2013 Portrait\u201d sold for just over $5 million, after including the buyer’s premium.<\/p>\n

\u201cMountain Forms\u201d depicts Mount Ishbel in the Sawback Range in the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n

It was one of the works featured in an exhibit of the late landscape artist that was co-curated by American actor-comedian Steve Martin.<\/p>\n

The exhibit was presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario earlier this year, as well as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n

Harris, who was born in Brantford, Ont., in 1885, is credited with being most responsible for the formation of the Group of Seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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