Morrisseaus sold for record prices @ Sotheby's & Joyner’s Auction Houses in Toronto, ON

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Jaws were dropping in the audience as Paul C. H. Robinson feverishly sought to vanquish all bidders by aggressively flashing his paddle, against all comers, Monday night at Joyner’s, and Tuesday night at Sotheby’s, to grab two huge Morrisseau paintings for Kinsman Robinson Galleries.

He paid a record $59,000 at Joyner’s and $45,000 at Sotheby’s, amounts sure to drive the price of all Norval Morrisseau paintings to new levels.
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"Nature's Balance", acrylic on kraft paper, 73"x48", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau /Click on image to Enlarge/


HISTORIC UPDATE – The price Paul C. H. Robinson paid for one of these paintings is in the range ($53,238.73 including GST) that his father Donald C. Robinson paid for 31 Norval Morrisseau paintings (28 lots) at a fine art auction east of Toronto in 1999-2000.
-Donald C. Robinson then sold many of them to fine art buyers through his Kinsman Robinson Galleries in Toronto and art auctions in Calgary.

Astonishingly Donald C. Robinson much later publicly labeled all these paintings as fakes…

It gets weirder – Donald Robinson, did ask for money back on another painting he also called a fake – by Robert Davidson - which he had bought at the same time as all the Morrisseaus, and received back $267 precious dollars, as a requested refund, from the auctioneer who gladly complied…

But Donald Robinson never asked for a single dollar back on even one of the 31 Morrisseaus he had publicly declared as inferior fakes and forgeries...

In effect, he couldn’t afford to lose $267, but could throw away $53,000…

Does any of this make sense on any level?

/click HERE for detailed explanation of Donald C. Robinson's peculiar behaviour/

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>>> Reference posts:
- Blog Master's Pick of the Day (Part I),
- Blog Master's Pick of the Day (Part II),
- Lister Sinclair about Norval Morrisseau,
- "Nature's Balance", © 1975 Norval Morrisseau,
- The Best Provenances of Norval Morrisseau Artwork (Part I),
- The Best Provenances of Norval Morrisseau Artwork (Part II),
- The Best Provenances of Norval Morrisseau Artwork (Part III) &
- Important Newspaper/Magazine articles involving Norval Morrisseau (Part I).
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