Harold Klunder Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Harold Klunder Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 31, 2024
Harold Klunder, RCA (b. 1943), ELDERSLIE, 1979
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Harold Klunder, RCA (b. 1943), Canadian ELDERSLIE, 1979 signed, titled, dated "79", and editioned "3/3 state proof - o/s imp." for Open Studio Impression; published by Open Studio, Toronto, printed by Nick Novak and Don Holman, Open Studio, Toronto Estimate: $1,200—1,800 CAD
Waddington's
Oct. 31, 2024
Harold Klunder, RCA (b. 1943), IVORY COAST, 1979
Est: $800 - $1,200
Harold Klunder, RCA (b. 1943), Canadian IVORY COAST, 1979 signed, titled, dated "79," and editioned "o.s. proof" for Open Studio proof, aside from the edition of 10; published by Open Studio, Toronto, printed by Nick Novak and Don Holman, Open Studio, Toronto Estimate: $800—1,200 CAD
Waddington's
Oct. 31, 2024
Harold Klunder (b. 1943), BRONZE AGE MAGDALENIUM I; BRONZE AGE MAGDALENIUM II, 1983
Est: $800 - $1,200
Harold Klunder (b. 1943), Canadian BRONZE AGE MAGDALENIUM I; BRONZE AGE MAGDALENIUM II, 1983 each signed, titled, dated "'83", and numbered 10/20; printed by Jerry Shiner at The Art Printer, Toronto, with blindstamp Estimate: $800—1,200 CAD
Waddington's
Oct. 09, 2022
Harold Klunder "Belize" Mixed Media, 1979
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Harold Klunder (Dutch/Canadian, b. 1943) "Belize" mixed media painting on paper depicting abstracted shapes and forms, signed and dated "'79" lower right, Sable-Castelli Gallery label to verso, with a linen mat housed under glass in a gilt wood frame. Image: 50" H x 38" W; frame: 59.75" H x 47.5" W. Provenance: Property from a private collection at 1 Central Park West
Auctions at Showplace
Apr. 11, 2022
Harold Klunder (DUTCH/CANADIAN, B. 1943) Runway Gunner, 1974-1976
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Harold Klunder (DUTCH/CANADIAN, B. 1943) Runway Gunner, 1974-1976 acrylic and metallic powder on canvas 37 x 109 inches.
Hindman
Sep. 30, 2020
Harold Klunder (Canadian, b. 1943), Untitled
Est: $400 - $600
Reverse etching on paper, ed. 5/14, 1991
Peter Estey Fine Art & Auctions
Oct. 29, 2019
Klunder, Harold - Visage - 1998
Est: $200 - $400
Klunder, Harold (1943-) Visage (1998) Aquarelle sur, signée et datée en bas K02 98 Watercolour on, signed and dated on bottom K02 98 19 1/2" x 15" - 49.53 x 38.10 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
Sep. 24, 2019
KLUNDER, HAROLD - L9 - 2002
Est: $500 - $800
Klunder, Harold (1943-) L9 (2002) Gouache sur papier, initialée et datée en bas à gauche K 02 Gouache on paper, initialed and dated on lower left K 02 19'' x 14 1/2'' - 48.26 x 36.83 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
Sep. 24, 2019
KLUNDER, HAROLD - 18 - 2002
Est: $600 - $800
Klunder, Harold (1943-) 18 (2002) Gouache sur papier, initialée et datée en bas à gauche K 02 Goauche on paper, initialed and dated on lower left K 02 19" x 14 1/2" - 48.26 x 36.83 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
HAROLD KLUNDER, R.C.A., UNTITLED, oil on canvas, unframed, 32 ins x 28 ins; 81.3 cms x 71.1 cms
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
HAROLD KLUNDER, R.C.A.UNTITLEDoil on canvas, unframedsigned, titled and dated 2002 on the overflap 32 ins x 28 ins; 81.3 cms x 71.1 cms Provenance:Private Collection, MontrealLiterature:Cliff Eyland, Harold Klunder. University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, 1999, page 4.Time is as much an element of the paintings of Harold Klunder (b.1943) as subject or medium. While his watercolours are completed quickly, his oil paintings are often done over a number of years and in this way his own lived experience and changing sensibilities are contained in the work. Towing the line between figurative imagery, abstraction and expressionism, over his extensive career, Klunder has seen many modes, trends and iterations of abstraction come and go. Since the duration of time is so critical to his artistic practice, a single painting can illustrate a multitude of aesthetic changes, ultimately making his work so compelling and challenging to categorise. Klunder has said that "I am influenced by everything; what I find on the street, what I see in stores, on TV, etc. I love the look of things and what the look hides. I love the idiosyncratic, the boring, banal everyday stuff, the things that fill our every moment, moment-to-moment...everything at once all the time..." His fascination with the ephemeral is captured through his own particular abstracted lens, paradoxically cementing this brevity in a dynamic but ultimately fixed image on the canvas. Everything has to end at some point, and what we see in Klunder’s paintings is the recognition, confrontation and ultimate concession to the indiscriminate passage of time.Estimate: $6,000–8,000
Waddington's
May. 29, 2017
HAROLD KLUNDER, R.C.A., SAINT JEROME IN PENITENCE (SELF PORTRAIT #II), oil on canvas, unframed, 60 ins x 60 ins; 152.4 cms x 152.4 cms
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
HAROLD KLUNDER, R.C.A.SAINT JEROME IN PENITENCE (SELF PORTRAIT #II)oil on canvas, unframedsigned and dated ‘87; also signed, titled and dated “1986-1987” on the reverse 60 ins x 60 ins; 152.4 cms x 152.4 cms Provenance:The Sable-Castelli Gallery Limited, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoHarold Klunder (b. 1943) immigrated to Canada from The Netherlands with his family in 1952. After studying art at Central Technical School in Toronto, he worked as a commercial artist for six years, becoming a full-time painter in 1970. His distinctive style evolved through the late 1970s (his first commercial show was held at Jared Sable’s gallery in 1976) and early 1980s into large, thickly painted works that often took several years to complete. Through the work—abstract, and executed in oils—Klunder explores the oil medium and its history; he makes reference to historical art, but updates and personalizes the subjects by inserting himself into the paintings. Many, like this Saint Jerome in Penitence, are subtitled “self portrait” and assigned a number. These are not conventional self portraits, as they reveal the artist’s inner life. And while Klunder’s work from the 1980s may resemble the work of contemporary Neo-expressionist painters in the references to historical art, in the use of the figure and thickly applied paint, it is not the result of post-modern theorizing.This work from 1987, depicting Saint Jerome in Penitence, or Self Portrait #11, is informed by earlier depictions of Jerome, a saint and doctor (teacher) of the Catholic Church, dating back to the early Renaissance in Europe. Traditionally, the saint is pictured as a hermit, having cast off his rich red garments, and lives in a desolate landscape where he practices mortification of the flesh. (he is often shown holding a rock). Typically, he is surrounded by other attributes: a book, lion, crucifix and dead tree.Klunder adopted some of the established iconography for this episode in the saint’s life. The large figure of the saint/artist walks towards the picture plane, on a long road that extends back to the horizon at an angle cutting across the lower three-quarters of the composition. He is naked, exposed, a red robe over one shoulder. The head, richly coloured and textured, is a self portrait: Klunder has become the penitent Jerome. This puts into question the desert landscape to his right, populated by an ascetic figure and a bird. Is this an extension of the saint/artist’s space, or is it a canvas on which he is working? A number of small pools of colour are arrayed along the lower edge of the work, with what appears to be a paintbrush standing in the lower left corner. Is this a picture of the artist as Saint Jerome, or of the artist in his studio, painting a picture of Saint Jerome? Or have the two concepts been conflated to read as a representation of Klunder’s personal struggle with his art?Estimate: $20,000–30,000
Waddington's
Jun. 30, 2016
HAROLD KLUNDER (CANADIAN, 1943-), QUEBEC, COLOUR LITHOGRAPH; TITLED AND NUMBERED 5/5 LOWER LEFT; SIGNED AND DATED ‘90 LOWER MIDDLE (Sheet, 25.3” x 25.3”)
Est: -
HAROLD KLUNDER (CANADIAN, 1943-)QUEBECCOLOUR LITHOGRAPH; TITLED AND NUMBERED 5/5 LOWER LEFT; SIGNED AND DATED ‘90 LOWER MIDDLE (Sheet, 25.3” x 25.3”)Estimate: $300—400
Waddington's
Nov. 23, 2015
HAROLD KLUNDER, R.C.A., OF MIND AND MATTER, DAY AND NIGHT, oil on canvas, diptych, unframed, Each 48 ins x 36 ins; 121.9 cms x 91.4 cms
Est: $20,000 - $25,000
HAROLD KLUNDER, R.C.A.OF MIND AND MATTER, DAY AND NIGHToil on canvas, diptych, unframedsigned, titled and dated on panel #2, titled and dated on panel #1 Each 48 ins x 36 ins; 121.9 cms x 91.4 cms Provenance:Michael Gibson Gallery, LondonPrivate Collection, OntarioLiterature:Harold Klunder, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario, 2011. James D. Campbell, "Harold Klunder," (exhibition review), Magenta Magazine, Montreal, 2014. John Marsonet, The Artist Life-Harold Klunder, a Program Documentary Series for Bravo Television, 2013.Note:Born in the Netherlands in 1946, Harold Klunder emigrated to Toronto in 1952. Based in Montreal, Klunder's colourful impasto and abstract paintings have received critical acclaim in Canada and abroad.Self-portraiture is characteristic of Klunder's work. With nearly all images beginning as figurative drawings, they morph, extend, transform and distort as the painting takes shape. Sometimes spending up to ten years on any given painting, Klunder's rigorous and personalized approach equally echoes and allows for the changing nature of personality and the unconscious mind to unfold. His paintings seem to embody a spirit of metamorphosis, with the curvilinear and highly abstract patterns suggestive of the untamed and dissonant thoughts that often occupy and threaten to overwhelm one's daily existence. Initially influenced by the Dutch tradition of abstract expressionism, Klunder actively carved his own path away from this modernist aesthetic, creating his own individualized style rooted in his adopted Canadian identity. Working with large scale pieces allows Klunder to assert a sense of physicality, which imbues his paintings with a kind of mind-body connection, making them come alive to both artist and viewer alike. Describing his work as "everything is significant and nothing is significant," Klunder's use of oil paint, given the postmodern fascination with alternate media such as digital photography, is certainly significant. His piece Of Mind and Matter, Day and Night, painted between 2005 and 2007, is demonstrative of his dedication to oil painting. Klunder takes chances not only in his choice of medium but also in revealing part of his internal self on the canvas. The rich and thickly applied red hues are offset by touches of contrasting blue, black and yellow; this diptych illustrates his differing experience of day and night. During the day, thoughts are seemingly entangled with the world around him, pictured in the jumble of lines and shapes that comprise his representation. At night, a more figurative image is presented, hinting that after dark there is more opportunity for solitary reflection and a return to the self (whatever that may be). The title Of Mind and Matter, suggests that rather than a dominance of one over the other, both entities constitute his being. Recalling that Klunder painted this over a two year period, the heavily applied layers of paint illustrate the vagaries of his experiences throughout this time.
Waddington's
May. 25, 2015
HAROLD KLUNDER, THE GEOMETRY OF PAIN (SELF PORTRAIT I), 1989, oil on canvas, unframed, 78 ins x 78 ins; 198.1 cms x 198.1 cms
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
HAROLD KLUNDER THE GEOMETRY OF PAIN (SELF PORTRAIT I), 1989 oil on canvas, unframedsigned and dated '89; also signed, titled and dated 1987-89 on the reverse, and inscribed on the left overflap "G. of P., S.P. 87-89" 78 ins x 78 ins; 198.1 cms x 198.1 cms Provenance:The Sable-Castelli Gallery Limited, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoNote:Born in The Netherlands in 1943, Harold Klunder immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1952. He studied art at Central Technical School in Toronto under Doris McCarthy, Charles Goldhammer and Virginia Luz. Klunder developed a diverse practice, working across a range of media including painting, photography, printmaking and performance. When assessing the pervading influences on Klunder's artwork, scholars often allude to other artists of Dutch heritage such as Willem de Kooning and Karel Appel. Yet Klunder himself defies rigid comparisons. He paints according to feeling: creating charged surfaces intuitively and freely - removing himself from the formal aspects of painting.Through Klunder's process, texture amasses in abundance. The sculptural forms created by his thick impastos carry as much life as the subject matter of the works themselves. Heavy paint pulsates with a buoyancy of colour. These are not works resulting from a quick slather; these are works that accumulate momentously, like geological formations.Klunder's paintings give a taste of the surreal despite being rooted firmly in real life. They are bohemian, musical and abstract, chunky. In recent years, Klunder has increasingly explored self-portraiture of which this lot, The Geometry of Pain (Self Portrait I), 1989, is an example. Paralleling the process of personal development - which happens slowly, cumulatively, and over many years - Klunder works on a single painting for years at a time. The canvases gestate, forming over a duration as vivid and living, weighty with the human experience.
Waddington's
May. 14, 2015
HAROLD KLUNDER (CANADIAN, 1943-), OCTOBER, COLOUR WOODCUT; TITLED LOWER LEFT; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT (Sight, 9.8” x 8.8”)
Est: -
HAROLD KLUNDER (CANADIAN, 1943-) OCTOBERCOLOUR WOODCUT; TITLED LOWER LEFT; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT (Sight, 9.8” x 8.8”)Estimate: $200—300
Waddington's
Mar. 04, 2014
HAROLD KLUNDER, ASSINIBOIN, lithograph, 22.5 ins x 16.5 ins; 57.2 cms x 41.9 cms
Est: $500 - $800
HAROLD KLUNDERASSINIBOIN, lithograph; signed, titled, dated /78 and numbered 3/5 22.5 ins x 16.5 ins; 57.2 cms x 41.9 cms Provenance: The Sable-Castelli Gallery Ltd., TorontoNote: Born in 1943, Harold Klunder moved to Canada from the Netherlands in 1952. He held his first solo exhibition in Toronto in 1976 and has maintained an active exhibition schedule over the past three decades. Klunder's paintings are continuously moving between the borders of representation and abstraction, featuring thick impasto texture and rich, colourful hues. Often taking several years to complete, his paintings are layered with complex themes of vitality, transformation and human experience. Klunder's work is found in the collections of many prominent institutions, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. He is represented by the Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario and Clint Roenesch Gallery in Toronto.
Waddington's
Mar. 28, 2013
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian colour woodcut Christ, the Temptations
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian colour woodcut Christ, the Temptations 32 x 24 inches 81.3 x 61 centimeters signed, titled, editioned A.P. 1/5 and dated 1999 Provenance:Private Collection, Montreal The sheet size of this work is 41 3/4 x 30 inches. Please note: this work unframed.
Heffel
Mar. 15, 2012
HAROLD KLUNDER
Est: $700 - $900
HAROLD KLUNDER SYMBOLS OF THE NORTH, acrylic on canvas; signed, unframed, some abrasions present on the surface of the work 30 ins x 48 ins; 75 cms x 120 cms
Waddington's
Sep. 29, 2011
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian oil on burlap on board Head Study VI
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian oil on burlap on board Head Study VI 20 x 18 inches 50.8 x 45.7 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1990 - 1993 Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
Jan. 21, 2010
HAROLD KLUNDER (1943-) CANADIAN UNTITLED; MIXED
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
HAROLD KLUNDER (1943-) CANADIAN UNTITLED; MIXED MEDIA ON CARDBOARD; SIGNED AND DATED 20.2.82 26 1/2" x 7" - 66.3 x 17.5 cm.
Waddington's
Nov. 24, 2009
HAROLD KLUNDER, UNTITLED, mixed media collage on cardboard, 26 1/2 ins x 7 ins; 66.3 cms x 17.5 cms
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
HAROLD KLUNDER UNTITLED, mixed media collage on cardboard; signed and dated 20.2.82 26 1/2 ins x 7 ins; 66.3 cms x 17.5 cms
Waddington's
Oct. 08, 2009
Harold Klunder (1943- ), Canadian PORTRAIT FIGURE
Est: $150 - $250
Harold Klunder (1943- ), Canadian PORTRAIT FIGURE I; Colour block and intaglio print on heavy paper; signed and dated 83, titled and numbered 11/16 in pencil to margin stamped with red chop mark. Unframed. Sheet 53" x 31.5" - 134.6 x 80 cm.
Waddington's
Aug. 24, 2009
Harold Klunder , Dutch b.1943 THE POET'S GARDEN NO. 1 (SELF PORTRAIT) Oil on canvas
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Signed and dated Klunder 82-85 (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed with title Klunder/ 82-85/ THE POET'S/GARDEN/#1/ (SELF PORTRAIT) (on reverse); bears artist's name, title and date on gallery label on reverse Oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Nov. 27, 2008
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian oil on canvas After
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian oil on canvas After the Storm 47 x 37 inches 119.4 x 94 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1999 - 2000 Provenance:Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary Private Collection, Montreal Please note: this work is unframed.
Heffel
Mar. 29, 2008
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian collage and mixed
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian collage and mixed media on Bible paper Three Studies after Giacometti No. 9, No. 11, No. 12 AOL0308-E05460-002 14 x 35 inches 35.6 x 88.9 centimeters signed and dated 1981 Provenance:Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto By descent to the present Private Collection, New York Exhibited:Art Gallery of Ontario, Extension Services, H. Klunder: Contact- Works on Paper, 1984
Heffel
Mar. 29, 2008
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian collage and mixed
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Harold Klunder 1943 - Canadian collage and mixed media on Bible paper Three Studies after Giacometti No. 1, No. 2, No. 4 AOL0308-E05460-001 14 x 35 inches 35.6 x 88.9 centimeters signed and dated 1981 Provenance:Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto By descent to the present Private Collection, New York Exhibited:Art Gallery of Ontario, Extension Services, H. Klunder: Contact- Works on Paper, 1984
Heffel