The Lawren Harris painting Mountain Forms smashed a Canadian art record in Toronto on Wednesday night by selling for just over $11.2 million, more than double the previous record set in 2002. Heffel Fine Art Auction House had estimated the 1926 oil canvas could fetch between $3 million and $5 million. 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. The sale of the Harris piece has shattered the record set in 2002 when Paul Kane’s 1845 oil canvas Scene in the Northwest - Portrait sold for just over $5 million, after including the buyer’s premium. Mountain Forms depicts Mount Ishbel in the Sawback Range in the Rocky Mountains.

Source: thestar November 24, 2016 00:46 UTC