Paraskeva Clark Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Paraskeva Clark Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 28, 2020
Paraskeva Clark for Sampson-Matthews, A Caledon Farm in May
Est: $400 - $600
1898-1986 Born in Russia, Canadian artist Paraskeva Clark became very interested in art as a child. At the age of nineteen, she took evening art classes under Savely Seidenberg in Petrograd from 1916 to 1918. Following the Russian Revolution in 1918, she studied with Vasily Shukhayev and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Free Studios in Petrograd until 1921. She met Canadian Philip Clark in Paris, married, and moved to Toronto in 1931. In 1944 she was appointed by the National Gallery of Canada to paint activities of the Women’s Divisions of the Armed Services. Clark also did silkscreen prints as part of a project to provide the Armed Services staying at hostels with scenes of their own country, of which her work ‘Caledon Farm in May’ is an example. Caledon is a region known for its hilly landscape. Here she has chosen to show the vista from the top of one of those hills looking down over a farmstead, the barnyard frenetic with activity. This is what Lawrence Sabbath noted in an interview with Clark, “… in Canada it’s landscapes, landscapes, landscapes, a kind of a national form of art, and it’s the only thing you can sell anyway, so involuntarily you start doing that, and when you do it’s a sort of loose work, it isn’t the same kind of rigid thinking when you do a human being.” She gave lectures on Soviet art at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Heliconian Club in Toronto. She was influenced by Paul Cézanne, but never abandoned her genuine portrayal of the world about her. Clark won numerous awards and exhibited widely with solo shows at Victoria College, University of Toronto; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Hart House, University of Toronto; the Dalhousie Art Gallery and many group shows, including ‘Canadian Painting in the Thirties’ at the National Gallery of Canada in 1975. Her memberships included the Canadian Group of Painters; the Canadian Society for Painters in Water Colour; the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists; the Federation of Canadian Artists; the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy. Her work can be found in the numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Hamilton Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hart House and Victoria College at University of Toronto and at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
4th Meridian Fine Art
May. 30, 2016
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A., UNTITLED - LANDSCAPE, oil on masonite, 16 ins x 20 ins; 40.6 cms x 50.8 cms
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A.UNTITLED - LANDSCAPEoil on masonitesigned and dated ‘50 16 ins x 20 ins; 40.6 cms x 50.8 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:Mary E. MacLachlan, Paraskeva Clark: Paintings and Drawings, (catalogue), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., 1982, pages 17 and 29.Note:Paraskeva Clark credits art dealer Douglas Duncan as “the climate that was beneficial to my taking roots in the Canadian soil.” Duncan purchased the artist’s first Canadian landscape (now in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario), after she had emigrated from St. Petersburg via Europe to settle in Toronto. Mary MacLachlan writes: “In spite of her stated intention to serve humanity through art, and her criticism of painters who neglected still life, portrait and narrative subjects, the greatest volume of Paraskeva’s work of over forty years is landscape.” Clark explained: “I really have a sort of religious feeling towards (nature).”
Waddington's
Mar. 17, 2016
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A., WOODS BY THE LAKE, 1983, watercolour and gouache, 28.25 ins x 20.25 ins; 71.8 cms x 51.4 cms
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PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A.WOODS BY THE LAKE, 1983watercolour and gouachesigned; titled and dated on the gallery label on the backing 28.25 ins x 20.25 ins; 71.8 cms x 51.4 cms Provenance:Libby’s of Toronto, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoEstimate: $1,200–1,500
Waddington's
Mar. 05, 2015
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A., WOODS BY THE LAKE, 1983, watercolour and gouache, 28.25 ins x 20.25 ins; 71.8 cms x 51.4 cms
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PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A.WOODS BY THE LAKE, 1983watercolour and gouachesigned; titled and dated on the gallery label on the backing 28.25 ins x 20.25 ins; 71.8 cms x 51.4 cms Provenance:Libby's of Toronto, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoEstimate: $2,000-3,000
Waddington's
Jan. 29, 2015
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK (CANADIAN, 1898-1986), VILLAGE ON THE ST. LAWRENCE, INK DRAWING; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO, 12" x 15" - 30.5 x 38.1 cm.
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PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK (CANADIAN, 1898-1986)VILLAGE ON THE ST. LAWRENCEINK DRAWING; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO12" x 15" - 30.5 x 38.1 cm.Provenance:ROBERTS GALLERY LIMITED, TorontoEstimate: $400-500
Waddington's
Apr. 17, 2014
PARASKEVA CLARK (CANADIAN, 1898-1986), TREES IN WINTER, MUSKOKA, PEN AND PENCIL DRAWING; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO (Sight, 8.3" x 11")
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PARASKEVA CLARK (CANADIAN, 1898-1986)TREES IN WINTER, MUSKOKAPEN AND PENCIL DRAWING; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO (Sight, 8.3" x 11")Provenance:LIBBY'S OF TORONTOEstimate: $300-400
Waddington's
Nov. 22, 2012
Paraskeva Plistik Clark 1898 - 1986 Canadian oil
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
Paraskeva Plistik Clark 1898 - 1986 Canadian oil on canvas Mrs. Ingeborg 34 x 26 inches 86.3 x 66 centimeters signed and on verso titled and dated 1931 Literature:Charles C. Hill, Canadian Painting in the Thirties, The National Gallery of Canada, 1975, Paraskeva Clark's 1933 self portrait entitled Myself reproduced on the cover A.K. Prakash, Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists, 2008, pages 209 to 212 Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto Paraskeva Clark was born in Russia and trained at the Petrograd Academy of Fine Arts and under the tutelage of Savely Seidenberg and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, she trained at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, which had been re-named the Free Art Studios. Her portraits from the 1930s are classic examples of social realist portraiture, and in Canada, she was well placed to be a leader in that genre. Her own personal history as the child of a Russian peasant family, a teenager who worked in a shoe factory, a oung art student during the Russian Revolution and a woman who had faced tragedy early in life gave her unique insight into the struggles of class, birthright and politics. Her first husband drowned when they were newlyweds, leaving her with a small son and forcing her to move from Petrograd to Paris to live with her in-laws. There, while working at a shop, she met musician Murray Adaskin and his friend Philip Clark, who were spending the summer in France. She would eventually marry Clark and move to Toronto. In Canada she pursued her career as a modernist painter in the circles opened to her through the Arts and Letters Club. She knew Lawren Harris, Charles Comfort, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Emily Carr and Prudence Heward, the latter of whom she greatly admired. Mrs. Ingeborg, signed and dated 1931, was painted two years before Clark painted her iconic self-portrait Myself, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Mrs. Ingeborg shows all the classic traits of Clark's finest portraits. The s tter's gaze is direct and confident, as is her carriage. Her heavily lidded brown eyes hold our gaze in a steady, forthright manner. She is a self-assured woman, clearly wealthy and wearing what must be, if we can judge from the tactile richness of Clark's applied brown paint, a fine mink coat. The coat exactly matches the colour of Mrs. Ingeborg's eyes, and they, in turn, match her hair and brows, unifying the work and conveying the sitter's sense of style and attention to detail. The coat is, incidentally, painted in the same rich shade of mink-brown as Clark's self portrait that would follow it, and the fact that Mrs. Ingeborg's coat is worn open gives the work a relaxed feeling, similar to the relaxed effect of the posture Clark used in her 1933 self portrait. It is these small aspects of her portraits - the leaning of a figure against a door, an open coat, a hand resting on a hip - that give Clark's works such intimacy, force and presence. Clark was fortunate to meet and to see the work of many of Europe's finest painters when she lived in France. She met Pablo Picasso through her first husband's family's connections in the world of theatre, and knew the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. In particular, we can see the influence of Paul Cézanne. Her treatment of colour as planes of form, her interest in light, and her simple solidification of objects, shapes and masses in her compositions can be compared with much of his work. In Canada, landscape ruled as the subject of choice, but Clark was far more interested in depicting Canada's social climate. She also maintained an interest in the art of her birth country, and Soviet art, while a lesser influence in her style, was a shaping factor in her politics, and she delivered numerous lectures on this topic before the advent of the Cold War. Later, her work would take on traits of Abstract Expressionism. In 1975 she was included in the important exhibition Canadian Painting in the Thirties, organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. Myself was selected as the cover image for the catalogue, having been purchased by the National Gallery. This show brought Clark's work to broader attention in Canada, proving her to be a cornerstone painter in the history of Modernist art in Canada.
Heffel
Nov. 30, 2011
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK RCA OSA CGP
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Canadian 1898-1986; Ripe Fruit & Fresh Flowers; Oil on board; Signed & dated '61; 20 x 24 in, 51 x 61 cm
Walker's
Nov. 28, 2011
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK1898 - 1986
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
VIEW OF A GORGE signed and dated '41 lower right; titled on an exhibition label on the reverse watercolour 78 by 57.2 cm. 30¾ by 22½ in.
Sotheby's
Sep. 22, 2011
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A. VERONIKA
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A. VERONIKA SPICATA, watercolour and gouache; signed 30 1/4 ins x 20 1/4 ins; 75.6 cms x 50.6 cms
Waddington's
May. 27, 2011
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A., VERONIKA SPICATA, watercolour and gouache, 30 1/4 ins x 20 1/4 ins; 75.6 cms x 50.6 cms
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A., VERONIKA SPICATA, watercolour and gouache; signed. 30 1/4 ins x 20 1/4 ins; 75.6 cms x 50.6 cms. Provenance: The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Picture Loan Service, Victoria. Private Collection, British Columbia. Note: A label found on the reverse of this work notes an address of 56 Roxborough Drive, Toronto, the address at which Clark resided from 1941 until the early 1980s.
Waddington's
Jun. 02, 2010
Painting by Paraskeva Plistik Clark
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Canadian (1898-1986), Still Life on Window Sil, Oil on board, signed; titled on reverse 20 x 24 IN, 51 x 61 CM
Walker's
Jun. 01, 2010
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A., PETROUSHKA SKETCH, 1937, watercolour, 12 1/2 ins x 7 1/2 ins; 31.3 cms x 18.8 cms
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A.PETROUSHKA SKETCH, 1937, watercolour; signed with initials and titled 12 1/2 ins x 7 1/2 ins; 31.3 cms x 18.8 cms Literature: Charles C. Hill, Canadian Painting in the Thirties, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1975, page 95 and page 108, plate 68, for the 1937 canvas of this subject (collection of The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).Mary E. MacLachlan, Paraskeva Clark, Paintings and Drawings, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1982, pages 26-28 and Fig.14, reproduced.Jane Lind, Perfect Red: The Life of Paraskeva Clark, Toronto, 2009, pages 111-114 and Plates 19-20 for the canvas and the pen drawing for a canvas of Petroushka.Note: This painting was instigated by a newspaper account of the murder of five strikers by the Chicago police and, as Hill notes, depicts a puppet show in which a puppet policeman, egged on by the 'Capitalists', beats a fallen worker while the audience naively laughs. Hill mentions that "The Futurist arrangement of the apartment houses, like a theatre backdrops, heightens the drama of oppression and resistance."MacLachlan reproduces this lot and writes that: "In two studies for Petroushka the evolution of the final composition can be traced. In the first (Fig.14) Paraskeva has established the basic design: the apartment quarters loom up at extreme angles with their axes converging at the central puppet stand. The policeman and capitalist puppets incline in the same direction in this version and behind them is a distant view of neighbouring courtyards and green trees."
Waddington's
May. 28, 2009
Paraskeva Plistik Clark 1898 - 1986 Canadian oil
Est: $3,000 - $3,500
Paraskeva Plistik Clark 1898 - 1986 Canadian oil on board Stratford Theatre 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 centimeters signed and dated 1958 and on verso titled on a label
Heffel
Nov. 27, 2008
Paraskeva Plistik Clark (1898-1986 RCA OSA
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Sunlit Pine (Mixed media on tan paper, signed, titled & dated '66)
Walker's
Jun. 01, 2005
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A. OWL, watercolour, signed and dated '49, minor paper staining at edges 22 ins x 14.75 ins; 55 cms x 36.9 cms Provenance: Estate of Isabel McLaughlin, Toronto
Est: $800 - $1,200
PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A. OWL, watercolour, signed and dated '49, minor paper staining at edges 22 ins x 14.75 ins; 55 cms x 36.9 cms Provenance: Estate of Isabel McLaughlin, Toronto
Waddington's
Apr. 05, 2005
Paraskeva Plistik Clark (Canadian, 1898-1986)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Schuymill River at Gray's Ferry watercolor on paper sight 13 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. (33.7 x 49.6 cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 27, 2003
Paraskeva Plistik Clark 1898 - 1986 watercolour and chalk on paper Wartime Tragedy A03F-E01690-001 13.75 x 9.5in 34.9 x 24.1 centimeters signed and dated 1945 and on verso titled and inscribed This work is one of the artist's war paintings. It
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Paraskeva Plistik Clark 1898 - 1986 watercolour and chalk on paper Wartime Tragedy A03F-E01690-001 13.75 x 9.5in 34.9 x 24.1 centimeters signed and dated 1945 and on verso titled and inscribed This work is one of the artist's war paintings. It depicts The Clouds of War and Blimp Bombings Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal
Heffel