Annie Douglas Savage Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Annie Douglas Savage Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 17, 2020
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE, DRYING FISH NETS, C.1940, oil on board, 12 ins x 14 ins; 30.5 cms x 35.6 cms
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE DRYING FISH NETS, C.1940 oil on board dated and titled to gallery label on the reverse 12 ins x 14 ins; 30.5 cms x 35.6 cms Provenance: Kastel Gallery, Montreal Galerie Valentin, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal Estimate: $6,000–8,000
Waddington's
Oct. 29, 2019
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE MODERNIST FLORAL STUDY PAINTING.
Est: $200 - $250
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE Modernist Floral Study Painting. -- Dimensions: Image Size: H: 29 inches: W: 25 inches ---
Uniques & Antiques
Oct. 18, 2019
Anne Douglas Savage (Canadian, 1896-1971)
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman) oil on canvas signed l.l. framed 33.5 x 23.5 in. (sight) 39 x 29 in. (frame)
Cowan's Auctions
Mar. 31, 2018
Anne Douglas Savage O/B Landscape with a Barn
Est: $600 - $1,200
This lot features an original oil on artist board landscape painting featuring a barn by Anne Douglas Savage (Canada 1891 - 1971). Savage was a Canadian painter and art teacher known for her lyrical, rhythmic landscapes. Between 1914 and 1918, Savage studied art at the Art Association of Montreal under several instructors including William Brymner (18551925) and Maurice Cullen. Her private world was permanently changed when her beloved twin brother was killed in action in France during World War I. After the end of the War, Anne Savage went to Minneapolis, Minnesota where she studied design at the Minneapolis School of Art. On her return to Montreal, she took a job as an art teacher at Baron Byng High School where she would remain for 26 years (1922-1947). In 1921, she joined the Beaver Hall Hill Group whose painters were closely allied to the Group of Seven. A. Y. Jackson, a member of the Group of Seven would become Savage's lifelong close friend. After spending some time at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto with the painter Arthur Lismer, another member of the Group of Seven, Savage traveled to Europe where some of her works were exhibited. Savage also spent time in British Columbia and did sketches of native villages on the northwest coast; this work was displayed in 1927 at the National Gallery in the exhibition "Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern". In 1933, she was one of the founding members of the Canadian Group of Painters and in 1949 and 1960 would serve as its president. She was appointed supervisor of art for the Protestant School Board of Montreal in 1948. She was instrumental in the founding of the High School Art Teaching Association and in 1955 inspired the formation of the Child Art Council which became the Quebec Society for Education through Art. She retired from full-time teaching in 1953 and was named the Supervisor of Art for the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. She was then invited by McGill University to teach, where she ended up teaching between 1954 and 1959. Signed "Anne Savage" lower right register. Measures 11.5" x 13.5". This piece comes from the Dickenson Estate of Knoxville, Tennessee. See Photos for Details. Shipping Available.
JD's Auctions
Mar. 25, 2016
Anne Savage (1896-1971) Abstract Nude Painting
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Artist: Anne Savage (1896-1971); Title: Untitled; Medium: Oil painting on canvas; Year or Era Produced: 20th Century; Signature: Lower left; Sight Area Approximate Measurement: 33.625" x 35.625"; Frame Approximate Measurement: 35.25" x 37.125" x 1.625"; Approximate Weight: 5 lbs; Note: This painting is undoubtedly influenced by her good friend Florence Wyle's drawings of nudes. This painting is a wonderful example of Anne Savage's use of light and rhythm. The color scheme features her use of mauve and lavender with wonderful purple shadows. A fabulous fauvism style painting.
J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC
Jun. 02, 2015
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE
Est: $200 - $300
Canadian, 1896-1971, The Village Church, Serigraph, signed in the matrix, 3.75 x 4.75 in, 9.5 x 12 cm screen size, Unframed
Walker's
May. 15, 2013
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Birches 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters signed and on verso signed and titled Literature:Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, 1977, page 127 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Baron Byng High School, Montreal The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation Anne McDougall described Anne Savage's method of working as follows: "She used to stand her easel by the front window where the light came over her left shoulder. She would hold one brush in her teeth while reaching with a finer one for a new colour. She was quick and deft and unfussy in her movements; mixing turpentine, flourishing a rag to clean her palette, and standing back, squinting, to get a better perspective." This description aptly fits the execution of this bright, modernist still life. We are looking down on a simple bouquet of leaves that has been evenly illuminated through Savage's attention to light and colour. In the angle of the table, window and distant hills outside, we see Savage's modernist leanings clearly expressed. Careful forethought has been put into the layers of colour that give us the wall, window frame and table. Savage paints the sun on the bouquet as prominently as the bouquet itself, and the effect, with pink light and blue shadows playing with the fallen leaves on the table while sun streams through the foliage in the vase, is quite dazzling.
Heffel
May. 15, 2013
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Summer 23 1/2 x 30 inches 59.7 x 76.2 centimeters signed Literature:Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, 1977, pages 42, 44 and 47 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Baron Byng High School, Montreal The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation Anne McDougall writes, "Her paintings...like those of the others in the Beaver Hall group, show the influence of the Impressionists, an influence which Morrice and others had brought late to Canada but which was considered very much avant-garde in households still hanging copies of old European masters - 'the Dutch gravy school', [A.Y.] Jackson called them." In late January of 1921, an article in La Presse included the name Anne Savage in a list of 20 painters that the author considered comparable to the "Indépendants de Paris" (Société des Artistes Indépendants). Along with that of Prudence Heward, Adam Sherriff Scott, Edwin Holgate and the others listed, Savage's work was, for Canadian eyes, a marked change from the mainstream. In describing Savage's work, her biographer McDougall, when writing of Savage's membership in the short-lived Beaver Hall group, states, "They were like a flurry of bright butterflies settling on a rock for a brief time, then off on their own ways."" Bright and delicate, and when considered in contrast to the "Dutch gravy" works that were the object of Jackson's ire, Savage's works are butterflies indeed.
Heffel
May. 15, 2013
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board November 24 x 30 inches 61 x 76.2 centimeters signed and on verso titled Literature:Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, 1977, pages 44 - 45 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Baron Byng High School, Montreal The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation Anne McDougall writes, "Anne Savage sought light and rhythm and had a sure hand with a purple shadow beneath a bank or a burnt umber across a sunlit hayfield...she showed a joyful, fearless use of colour...she does not people her pictures with human beings...but turns again to landscape and throws joy into the sweeping tree or bank." Savage's colours in this bright, enchanted scene are awash in sunlight. The effect is one of bleached brilliance, and the scrubbed, dry-brush application of paint furthers this effect. Her balanced composition consists of rolling hills set under an umbrella of trees that partially screens a distant hill, with all of this accented by a few small buildings. Savage varies her application of paint by a pattern of dotting in some of the tree boughs, and sets these next to ones painted with fluid smoothness. There are vertical brush-strokes to offset the horizontal ones, and the division of the whole scene by lyrical, sweeping lines of reddish-brown - quite Art Nouveau in their character - gives the scene a fine sense of design.
Heffel
May. 15, 2013
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian
Est: $70,000 - $90,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian double-sided oil on canvas Northern Lake / Trees in the Wind (verso) 31 x 34 inches 78.7 x 86.3 centimeters signed Literature:Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, 1977, pages 127 and 128 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Baron Byng High School, Montreal The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation Anne Savage's career as an art educator had an impact that still resonates today with the students and alumni of Montreal's Baron Byng High School, where she taught from 1922 until 1948. The school was established in 1921 and notes Mordecai Richler, Irving Layton, Moe Reineblatt and William Shatner among its graduates. Savage was the school's first art teacher, and during her long tenure there she employed a method of teaching focused on creative stimulus, positive reinforcement and showing complete trust in the innate artistic talents of all her students. Quite ahead of its time, this method produced outstanding results, and Savage soon became a beloved teacher. She oversaw the painting of murals on the school walls by students and arranged for the donation of important works of art by her artistic contemporaries to the school's collections. Thus, the walls at Baron Byng were graced with a remarkable array of art. From sketches by J.E.H. MacDonald and fine canvases by A.Y. Jackson to a wintry street scene by Robert Wakeham Pilot, Savage built a collection with the eye of an experienced curator and the insight of a gifted educator. As well, she contributed a number of her own works, including Northern Lake / Trees in the Wind. The view on one side of this double-sided work, entitled Northern Lake, is a depiction of one of Savage's most treasured vistas. In 1911, her family had purchased a summer property at Lake Wonish, north of Montreal near Sixteen Island Lake. The property was high on a hill above the lake and had a commanding view of the lake's waters, which could not be seen in their entirety from the home, being partially hidden beneath steep cliffs, with the view running off into the distance. This distant lake has a distinctive shoreline, standing out like a shard of glass in a lush landscape. Savage was extremely fond of this outlook, and painted it often, in both sunlight and twilight like French Impressionist Claude Monet, who painted the same scene again and again. She captured it in all seasons and different times of day, and named it with varying titles. In 1933 she built a studio for herself on this property, at the head of the lake with a view out of her window that gave her an eagle's overlook onto the landscape. Anne McDougall writes, "The fields between the studio and the water fold into valleys at the foot of elm and maple trees. There is a road running across the end of the fields that turns by a clump of maple trees. Anne found the view satisfying. It contained the elements of rhythm and design that she needed, and was right there in front of her...'Anne's Lake', as her friends called it, so often gave her the inspiration she needed for on-the-spot subject matter. She turned to it again and again." Her depiction of the lake in this work is both expansive and graceful, with a fine, rolling quality and a serene harmony in both her palette and her brushwork. The shadows and colouring of the elm trees are especially fine. The verso scene, Trees in the Wind, is equally enchanting. Characteristic of Savage's style, movement, rhythm and balanced patterns of colour are the main focuses of this lyrical and energetic composition. Savage lined the walls of her studio with mirrors so that she could see the works she was painting in reverse and from various angles while she was working, feeling that these varied perspectives allowed her to compose her paintings more carefully. Indeed, with both Northern Lake and Trees in the Wind, her compositional structure perfectly supports these two delightful works. Savage was a member of both the Beaver Hall Group and the Canadian Group of Painters. Following her retirement from Baron Byng High School, she supervised the Art Program for The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal and taught at McGill University.
Heffel
Nov. 29, 2012
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian double-sided oil on board Eastern Townships Farm / Tree by the River (verso) 9 x 12 inches 22.9 x 30.5 centimeters on verso titled on the gallery label, inscribed ""Eastern Townships"" and stamped with the estate stamp Provenance:Private Collection, Corpus Christi Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal Private Collection, South Carolina
Heffel
Nov. 29, 2012
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Dr. Wright's Farm 12 x 14 inches 30.5 x 35.6 centimeters Literature:Evelyn Walters, The Women of Beaver Hall, Canadian Modernist Painters, 2003, page 110 Mary MacDonald Trudel, editor, Chantal Généreux, translator, Le groupe Beaver Hall Group, 2007, reproduced page 35 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Dr. H.P. Wright, Quebec By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec Exhibited:Bishop's University, Knowlton, Beaver Hall Group, April 21, 2007, traveling to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, April 25 - 28, 2007, catalogue #30 In the 1920s, the art world was male-dominated, but Anne Savage and her fellow women artists of the Beaver Hall Group forged significant inroads. United by their passion for art, they kept life-long connections, often exhibiting together. They had strong supporters, such as Eric Brown at the National Gallery of Canada, thus Savage's work was regularly included in exhibitions there. Savage was a respected art educator and a pillar of the art community - a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, she was elected its Montreal president in 1949. Her work embodied the spirit of modernism, and was known for its strength and clarity. In her praise, Barbara Meadowcroft wrote, "Anne Savage believed in art as the expression of what was highest in the human spirit. Whether she was painting or awakening others to the beauty around them, she worked with self-abandonment, intensity and joy." In this fine rural scene, Savage expresses the robust energy of the sun-washed land, pressed at its borders by dense forest. Orange and red highlights from earth to sky add to the drama and vigour of the scene.
Heffel
May. 31, 2012
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian double-sided oil on board Eastern Townships Farm / Tree by the River (verso)
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian double-sided oil on board Eastern Townships Farm / Tree by the River (verso) 9 x 12 inches 22.9 x 30.5 centimeters on verso titled on the gallery label, inscribed "Eastern Townships" and stamped with the estate stamp Provenance:Private Collection, Corpus Christi Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal Private Collection, South Carolina
Heffel
May. 25, 2012
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE FLORAL STILL LIFE, oil on board; signed 16 ins x 18 ins; 40 cms x 45 cms Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto. Literature: Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, Montreal, 1977, page 47. Note: McDougall
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE FLORAL STILL LIFE, oil on board; signed 16 ins x 18 ins; 40 cms x 45 cms Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto. Literature: Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, Montreal, 1977, page 47. Note: McDougall writes that, "while the men in the Group of Seven were tracking the hills of Lake Superior, camping and roughing it among flaming maples and the desolate scrub of the north, the women of Montreal were painting, naturally enough, much gentler things: interiors with glimpses of the old city through a window, flower studies, Sherbrooke Street through a grey mist with the horses and caleches drawn up in a row, the rolling and yellow and mauve hills of the Eastern Townships, blue and white Quebec villages, and Laurentian spruce and clumps of elm. If you put paintings by Anne Savage, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson, Mabel H. May, Mabel Lockerby, Nora Collyer, Lilias Torrence Newton, Ethel Seath and Kay Morris all together you get a 'Montreal look.' If it is a look of colour and mood; much of it comes from the French details: outside staircases, wide balconies, nuns strolling in a convent garden, baskets of pink geraniums, a wayside shrine. It is a look quite different from anything else painted in Canada."
Waddington's
Nov. 24, 2011
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Dr. Wright's Farm
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Dr. Wright's Farm 12 x 14 inches 30.5 x 35.6 centimeters Literature:Evelyn Walters, The Women of Beaver Hall, Canadian Modernist Painters, 2003, page 110 Mary MacDonald Trudel, editor, Chantal Généreux, translator, Le groupe Beaver Hall Group, 2007, reproduced page 35 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Dr. H.P. Wright, Quebec By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec Exhibited:Bishop's University, Knowlton, Beaver Hall Group, April 21, 2007, traveling to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, April 25 - 28, 2007, catalogue #30 In the 1920s, the art world was male-dominated, but Anne Savage and her fellow women artists of the Beaver Hall Group forged significant inroads. United by their passion for art, they kept life-long connections, often exhibiting together. They had strong supporters, such as Eric Brown at the National Gallery of Canada, thus Savage's work was regularly included in exhibitions there. Savage was a respected art educator and a pillar of the art community - a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, she was elected its Montreal president in 1949. Her work embodied the spirit of modernism, and was known for its strength and clarity. In her praise, Barbara Meadowcroft wrote, "Anne Savage believed in art as the expression of what was highest in the human spirit. Whether she was painting or awakening others to the beauty around them, she worked with self-abandonment, intensity and joy." In this fine rural scene, Savage expresses the robust energy of the sun-washed land, pressed at its borders by dense forest. Orange and red highlights from earth to sky add to the drama and vigour of the scene.
Heffel
Nov. 24, 2011
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Dr. Wright's House
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Dr. Wright's House 12 x 14 inches 30.5 x 35.6 centimeters Literature:Mary MacDonald Trudel, editor, Chantal Généreux, translator, Le groupe Beaver Hall Group, 2007, reproduced page 34 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Dr. H.P. Wright, Quebec By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec Exhibited:Bishop's University, Knowlton, Beaver Hall Group, April 2007, catalogue #29, traveling to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, reproduced page 34 Anne Savage was a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group in Montreal, formed in 1920. A descendant of Sir Alexander Galt, a Father of Confederation, Savage took pride in Canada's history and the beauty of its land. She was close to Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson, and shared some of the Group's ideals, principally the desire to paint to express the essence of the country, rather than only as a personal evolution. While certainly the Group influenced her work, her style was her own. Savage grew up on a farm near Dorval and spent summers at Lake Wonish in the Laurentians. She built a studio there in 1933, and her landscape subjects were drawn from the Laurentians and Eastern Townships. Dr. H.P. Wright, a leading Montreal authority on rheumatism and arthritis, was her neighbour in the countryside, and both this work and lot XXX were given to him as a gift. This outstanding painting exhibits Savage's finest qualities - her handling of clear, radiant light, strong definition of form with vigorous brush-strokes and warmth of feeling for her subject.
Heffel
May. 26, 2011
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE 1896 - 1971
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE 1896 - 1971 COUNTRY FARM signed lower right ANNE D. SAVAGE oil on panel; a still life of a bowl and lemon on the reverse 22.2 by 30.5 cm. 8 ¾ by 12 in.
Sotheby's
May. 31, 2010
Anne Douglas Savage (Canadian, 1897-1971) Untitled (sunflower and vegetable garden in summer, with farm buildings beyond)
Est: £25,000 - £35,000
Untitled (sunflower and vegetable garden in summer, with farm buildings beyond) signed 'A.D.Savage' (lower right) oil on panel (plywood) 40.6 x 43.2cm (16 x 17in).
Bonhams
May. 26, 2010
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Sugar Shack 8 3/4 x 12 inches 22.2 x 30.5 centimeters on verso signed Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto A member of Montreal's Beaver Hall Hill Group, Anne Savage was known for her landscapes of Montreal and its surrounds, including the country around her family's farm at Lake Wonish. This classic Canadian scene features a "sugar shack" - a cabin in the woods used for the boiling down of maple syrup, an activity carried on by farmers in the winter for extra income, and as a delicious treat. Savage's strength as a painter is evident in this fresh, natural oil sketch brightened by splashes of orange, blue and mauve.
Heffel
May. 26, 2010
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $70,000 - $90,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on canvas Winter Morning 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters signed Literature:Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Personal Art Collection Catalogue, reproduced, unpaginated, catalogue #R50 Provenance:Acquired directly from the Artist June 22, 1956 for $75 Estate of Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Montreal Collector Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton was a careful record-keeper, and notes this work as an untitled scene of the Laurentian village of Sainte-Adèle in winter. Later, as noted on the artist's payment receipt, the title Winter Morning was established. Thornton loved the Laurentians, and her practice was to purchase works to which she felt a personal connection. Anne Savage spent summers at a family cabin on Lake Wonish in the Laurentians, and explored such Canadian outdoor scenery throughout her long career. It is no surprise, then, to find this inviting scene in the Thornton estate. Savage's work is often characterized by a roundness of form and rhythmic movement, traits clearly evident in this work. She was taught by William Brymner and Maurice Cullen at the Art Association of Montreal from 1914 to 1918, who passed on their knowledge of the modernist movements of Europe. Savage's bold style was also influenced by A.Y. Jackson, her lifelong friend and mentor. A founding member of both the Beaver Hall Hill Group of Painters and the Canadian Group of Painters, Savage was an active contributor to exhibitions throughout her life. A dedicated and inspirational teacher, her legacy of leadership perhaps equals the legacy of her work.
Heffel
Feb. 25, 2010
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on panel Port Scene 6 1/2 x 8 inches 16.5 x 20.3 centimeters signed Provenance:Private Collection, Montreal
Heffel
May. 26, 2009
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE THE STORM, oil on panel;
Est: $18,000 - $22,000
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE THE STORM, oil on panel; signed; signed, inscribed "The Storm" and with an unfinished still life on the reverse 18 1/4 ins x 16 ins; 45.6 cms x 40 cms
Waddington's
Nov. 27, 2008
Anne Douglas Savage (1896-1971 CGP BHHG)
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
Blue Ice, Lake Wonish (Oil on canvas, signed, titled and inscribed N.F.S. on reverse, painted circa 1935)
Walker's
May. 31, 2008
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Blue Pool - Metis
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
12 x 14 inches 30.5 x 35.6 centimeters signed and on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Maryland
Heffel
Nov. 24, 2007
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on panel Laurentian Landscape AOL1107-E05393-002 12 x 14 inches 30.5 x 35.6 centimeters signed Provenance:By descent from the Artist to the present Private Collection, Quebec In this painting, Savage captures the whimsical colours and foliage of a dream-like Laurentian escape. The sunlit trees and mauve shadows evoke the feeling of the warmth and serenity of a late summer afternoon. Savage's unique use of form and colour gives life and rhythm to the towering pines and rolling hills, making this a quintessentially Laurentian landscape.
Heffel