Overview
- Heffel released a 27-piece preview for the Nov. 19 art auction, led by Winston Churchill’s Marrakech with a $400,000 to $600,000 estimate.
- Other top lots include Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith’s Lights of a City Street estimated at $100,000 to $150,000 and two William von Moll Berczy works depicting Trafalgar and Lord Nelson.
- The sale features numerous Hudson’s Bay Company–themed paintings, including calendar commissions by W. J. Phillips, Charles Fraser Comfort, Franklin Arbuckle and Frank Johnston.
- An Ontario court approved the broader asset-sale process last month, with additional online auctions of memorabilia and artifacts scheduled in November and December.
- The 1670 royal charter is excluded from these auctions, and 24 items identified as potentially Indigenous are being set aside for return or donation.