Portrait of Dora Maar eclipses other auction offerings at Heffel

The Toronto- and Berlin-based artist expressed relief after winning C$100,000 contemporary art prize: "I don’t have to worry financially now"

The blockbuster exhibition gathers early works by the Flemish master from museums in North America and Europe

An exhibition of the shortlisted artists is now on view at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta

Among the highlights of the city-wide exhibition is a “panoramic pantomime” of Cook’s Pacific expeditions by the New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana

An exhibition focusing on the artist’s Blue Period came together after high-tech examinations of the work revealed hidden surprises

The French Modern master’s oil painting Femme assise sur un balcon was withdrawn from a Canadian sale after bidding stalled below the reserve price

The Canadian institution aims to double its membership and expand its audience with one-year pilot programme

The initiative is part of a broader reconciliation effort by the government

The Ontario native is just the fourth woman to take the post, and the youngest in more than a century

A forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada aims to show how the painter explored his own identity through his subjects

After ten years at the post, he has plenty of accomplishments, including bringing Indigenous art into the canon, and few regrets

A painting of the University of Toronto lab where he co-discovered insulin goes for ten times its high estimate in Toronto

Dr Frederick Banting wanted to take up art full-time, but he was killed in a plane crash during the Second World War

Canada’s top prize for artists under 40 was doubled this yearto C$100,000

After facing controversy for attempting to sell the work to fund another acquisition, the National Gallery of Canada will return the Modernist painting to public view

The work Trolley Hunters went missing during the set up for the ‘unauthorised’ exhibition

Despite controversy over public art project in Calgary, Derek Michael Besant has been commissioned to create a similar work in Ottawa

The work’s owner, a retired nurse, chose not to attend the sale in person due to nerves “in case it was worth something”

The work is due to be auctioned in Toronto with a high estimate of $135,000—and will fund a Mediterranean cruise for the owner and her friend

The prize recognises artists under 40 from each of the country’s five regions

Although comparisons have been drawn to Jackson Pollock but, the Montreal-born painter “felt no special affinities” to the Abstract Expressionist's work

The Group of Seven artist, a favourite of the comedian and collector Steve Martin, hit his peak at Toronto sale

At Tuesday’s preview, the actor and art enthusiast spoke about his first encounter with the Canadian painter’s work, and offered advice to young artists

Interest has been sparked by show of the Group of Seven leader at the Hammer Museum in LA