Jacques DeTonnancour Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Jacques DeTonnancour Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 09, 2023
Jacques De Tonnancour Modernist Enamel on Board
Est: $100 - $15,000
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour (Canada, 1917-2005), dated 1964, modernist enamel on board mixed medium. 16 inches H x 17.5 W, framed 23 x 24.5 inches. With original sticker on verso, signed on verso.
Kavanagh Auctions
Dec. 14, 2021
De Tonnancour, Jacques - Paysage - 1942
Est: $2,000 - $2,005
De Tonnancour, Jacques (1917-2005) Paysage (1942) Description (FR): Huile sur toile, signée en bas à droite De Tonnancour Étiquette de la Galerie Gauvreau Description (EN): Oil on canvas, signed on lower right De Tonnancour Label of Galerie Gauvreau Dimension (PO): 12" x 16" Dimension (CM): 30.5 x 40.6 cm Rapport de condition: Sur demande, nous nous ferons un plaisir de répondre à vos questions de manière détaillée. Condition report: Upon request, We will gladly answer all your inquiries in a detailed manner.
Champagne Auctions
May. 18, 2021
De Tonnancour, Jacques Godefroy - Lac et maison
Est: $400 - $600
De Tonnancour, Jacques Godefroy (1917-2005) Lac et maison Description (FR): Huile sur isorel, signée en bas à gauche De Tonnancour Description (EN): Oil on hardboard, signed on lower left De Tonnancour Dimension (PO): 14" x 18" Dimension (CM): 35.56 x 45.72 cm Rapport de condition: Sur demande, nous nous ferons un plaisir de répondre à vos questions de manière détaillée. Condition report: Upon request, We will gladly answer all your inquiries in a detailed manner.
Champagne Auctions
May. 28, 2018
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A., SUNSET IN THE LAURENTIANS, oil on masonite, 10 ins x 14 ins; 25.4 cms x 35.6 cms
Est: $2,500 - $4,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A.SUNSET IN THE LAURENTIANSoil on masonitesigned and dated ‘56 10 ins x 14 ins; 25.4 cms x 35.6 cms Provenance:Dominion Gallery, MontrealPrivate Collection, WinnipegEstimate: $2,500–4,000
Waddington's
Nov. 20, 2017
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A., PAYSAGE, oil on masonite, 18 ins x 24 ins; 45.7 cms x 61 cms
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A.PAYSAGEoil on masonitesigned and dated ‘58 18 ins x 24 ins; 45.7 cms x 61 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:Ray Ellenwood, Egregore: A history of the Montreal Automatist Movement, Exile Editions Ltd., Toronto, 1992, page 120.Unimpressed with his time studying at the École des Beaux Arts in Montreal, Jacques de Tonnancour (1917-2005) denounced academia and left the institution after two years. He held his first solo exhibition at Montreal’s Dominion Gallery, and with a government bursary, left for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1945, a city that was to have a lasting impression on his aesthetic style. Once back in Montreal in 1948, he was hired at the very same school he had previously decried, yet this time a little older, wiser and a teacher rather than a student. It was here that he became better acquainted with the surrealist avant-gardist, Alfred Pellan, who was also working at the École des Beaux Arts, and together they would co-author Prisme d’yeux, a manifesto standing in opposition to Borduas and the Automatistes. The Prisme d’yeux manifesto was a reaction to what Pelland and de Tonnancour perceived as the increasing “sectarianism” and the narrow definition of avant-garde under Borduas and the Automatistes. Instead they sought a painting “free from all contingencies of time and place or from restrictive ideologies, conceived apart from any literary, political, philosophical or other interferences which might adulterate its expression and comprise its purity”. A somewhat idealist movement that only lasted the duration of two exhibitions, Prisme d’yeux favoured the fundamental principles of painting, effectively calling for the separation of art and politics. After this period of radicalism, de Tonnancour painted sparingly from 1950-1955, returning to the medium and his old landscape subject matter after an inspirational trip to the Laurentians, northern Ontario and Vancouver. Paysage is a ready example from de Tonnancour’s return to painting and an early demonstration of his shift towards further simplification of form. Estimate: $8,000–12,000
Waddington's
May. 25, 2015
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A., LE MILLE PATTES, 1964, mixed media on canvas, laid down on board, 12 ins x 12 ins; 30.5 cms x 30.5 cms
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A. LE MILLE PATTES, 1964 mixed media on canvas, laid down on boardsigned, titled and dated on the reverse 12 ins x 12 ins; 30.5 cms x 30.5 cms Provenance:Galerie Agnès Lefort, MontrealPrivate Collection, TorontoLiterature:Gilles Hénault, "Tonnancour," in André Paradis, 16 Peintres Du Québec Dans Leur Milieu, La Vie Des Arts, Québec, 1978, page 147.Note:«Alors, un danger s'instaure. Il faut montrer de nouveau que l'art n'est pas la nature; que l'espirit de géométrie est bien propre de l'homme. (Pourtant, cette formulation est ambiguë, car partout la nature sème à profusion ses théorèmes de coquillages, ses symétries d'insectes, son cubisme de cristaux.) Tonnancour en tiendra compte, car sa pente naturelle l'entraîne à privilégier la forme; il composera donc ses tableaux en y inscrivant sur un fond grumeleux, sa trace personelle, je veux dire ses propres géométries, ses écritures.»Le Mille Pattes is an arid landscape: granulated textures, sandy pixels, a plane of earthen blocks of colour. De Tonnancour modernizes nature's forms - his paint acting as a new kind of primordial mud. Suspended in this figurative clay are allusions to shells and lichen, and the abstracted form of a centipede frozen in a dance across the surface.
Waddington's
May. 25, 2015
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A., PAYSAGE, 1959, oil on masonite, 24 ins x 32 ins; 61 cms x 81.3 cms
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A. PAYSAGE, 1959 oil on masonitesigned and dated '59 24 ins x 32 ins; 61 cms x 81.3 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:Jacques de Tonnancour in Elizabeth Kilbourn, Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1966, page 45.Note:For Jacques de Tonnancour, 1955 signaled a genre shift from the abstract to the landscape. His primary focus was on the terrain of northern Quebec, which held a certain power in his eyes. "The magnetic and engulfing charm and power of the north can in no time dissolve a man and lose him in a sea of silence and desolation. In many parts of Canada that is what we are up against, that enormous silence. This is the shape of Quebec." Through loose gestures, swift strokes of paint and thin washes, de Tonnancour conveys the pensanteur or weight of the land. Under an effortless sky, tangles of branches and currents of energy twist about in greens and sienna. In de Tonnancour's painting, one relinquishes the notion of controlled landscape and surrenders oneself to the dangers of the wilderness.
Waddington's
Mar. 05, 2015
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A., THE LONELY SOLE, oil on canvas, 15.75 ins x 29 ins; 40 cms x 73.7 cms
Est: -
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A.THE LONELY SOLEoil on canvasindistinctly dated "5.9.52" 15.75 ins x 29 ins; 40 cms x 73.7 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoExhibited:Canadian Group of Painters, 1952Estimate: $2,000-3,000
Waddington's
Jun. 03, 2013
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A., LE MONT-ROYAL ET L'ORATOIRE, oil on canvas, 19 ins x 23 ins; 47.5 cms x 57.5 cms
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A.LE MONT-ROYAL ET L'ORATOIRE, oil on canvas; signed and dated '44 19 ins x 23 ins; 47.5 cms x 57.5 cms Provenance: Dominion Gallery, Montreal.Private Collection, Toronto.
Waddington's
Nov. 28, 2011
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR1917 - 2005
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
L'ALPHABET INCONNU/THE UNKNOWN ALPHABET signed, titled and dated 1969 on the reverse mixed media on board 91 by 91 cm. 36 by 36 in.
Sotheby's
Nov. 28, 2011
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR1917 - 2005
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
STILL LIFE signed and dated '57 upper right oil on board 94 by 121 cm. 35½ by 47½ in.
Sotheby's
May. 26, 2011
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR 1917 - 2005
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR 1917 - 2005 COULEUR DE PERDRIX 1969 signed, titled and dated on the reverse mixed media on board 50.8 by 50.8 cm. 20 by 20 in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 31, 2011
Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour 1917 - 2005
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour 1917 - 2005 Canadian mixed media on board Échos et vestiges de l'âge du bronze #7 23 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches 60.3 x 60.3 centimeters on verso signed and titled and dated 1975 on a gallery label Provenance:Marlborough-Godard, Montreal Estate of Albert Dumouchel Collection of Jacques Dumouchel, Montreal
Heffel
May. 31, 2010
Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour (Canadian, born 1917) Untitled (Landscape in gray)
Est: £2,000 - £4,000
Untitled (Landscape in gray) signed and dated 'De Tonnancour/62' (lower right) oil on masonite 20.3 x 30.5cm (8 x 12in).
Bonhams
May. 26, 2010
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour 1917 - 2005
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour 1917 - 2005 Canadian mixed media on board Fossile #8 23 7/8 x 33 7/8 inches 60.6 x 86 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1978 on the gallery label Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal
Heffel
Dec. 03, 2009
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR 1917 - 2005
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
LES SIGNES DOMAGE signed, titled and dated on the reverse: JACQUES DE TONNANCOUR, LES SIGNES DOMAGE, 1969
Sotheby's
May. 26, 2009
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A. PAYSAGE
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A. PAYSAGE ROUGE, oil on board; signed and dated '61 8 ins x 11 ins; 20 cms x 27.5 cms
Waddington's
May. 26, 2009
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A. PINE
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A. PINE TREES, oil on board; signed and dated /60, minor scratches 32 ins x 24 ins; 80 cms x 60 cms
Waddington's
Nov. 25, 2008
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A SARABANDE
Est: -
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, A.R.C.A SARABANDE FOR GUITAR, 1969
Joyner
Nov. 19, 2008
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour 1917 - 2005
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour 1917 - 2005 Canadian mixed media on board Introduction et allegro #1 24 x 24 inches 61 x 61 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1971 Provenance:Galerie Godard Lefort, Montreal Marlborough-Godard, Toronto Private Collection, Quebec
Heffel
Nov. 19, 2008
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour 1917 - 2005
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
Jacques Godefroy De Tonnancour 1917 - 2005 Canadian oil and mixed media on canvas laid down on board Sur trois ronds 36 x 36 inches 91.4 x 91.4 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1968 Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto Although much of Tonnancour's early work was devoted to brilliant landscape painting, towards the 1960s his landscapes began to simplify, resulting in works which approach pure abstraction. Sur trois ronds, completed in 1968, exemplifies Tonnancour's movement into the concentration of form, line and experimentation with incorporating foreign material into his painting, creating a collage-like effect.
Heffel