John Meredith Paintings & Artwork for Sale | John Meredith Art Value Price Guide

May. 11, 2024
John Meredith Carved Wood Duck Decoy
Est: $100 - $150
10" by 4 1/8" by 4". Some roughness on tailfeathers as shown.
Davis Brothers Auction
Jun. 30, 2021
JOHN MEREDITH 1933-2000 CANADIAN ABSTRACT PAINTING SIGN
Est: $900 - $5,000
John Meredith 1933-2000 Canadian Abstract Painting Signed. Frame Measure
RB Fine Arts
Sep. 13, 2018
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., UNTITLED COMPOSITION, coloured inks, 14 ins x 17 ins; 35.6 cms x 43.2 cms
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.UNTITLED COMPOSITIONcoloured inkssigned and dated ‘65 14 ins x 17 ins; 35.6 cms x 43.2 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoEstimate: $2,000–2,500
Waddington's
Sep. 13, 2018
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., UNTITLED COMPOSITION, coloured inks, 14 ins x 17 ins; 35.6 cms x 43.2 cms
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.UNTITLED COMPOSITIONcoloured inks 14 ins x 17 ins; 35.6 cms x 43.2 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoEstimate: $2,000–2,500
Waddington's
Nov. 21, 2016
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., UNTITLED DRAWING II, 1964, ink on paper, 13.75 ins x 16.75 ins; 34.3 cms x 42.5 cms
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.UNTITLED DRAWING II, 1964ink on papersigned and dated ‘64 13.75 ins x 16.75 ins; 34.3 cms x 42.5 cms Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery, TorontoPrivate Collection, OntarioEstimate: $2,000–3,000
Waddington's
Sep. 24, 2016
Withdrawn
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Withdrawn
Neal Auction Company
Mar. 17, 2016
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., SKETCH FOR RONALDO, coloured inks, 7.75 ins x 15.5 ins; 19.7 cms x 39.4 cms
Est: -
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.SKETCH FOR RONALDOcoloured inkssigned and dated ‘70 7.75 ins x 15.5 ins; 19.7 cms x 39.4 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoEstimate: $2,000–3,000
Waddington's
Mar. 17, 2016
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., SKETCH FOR LEFKO, coloured inks, Sight 16.5 ins x 13.5 ins; 41.9 cms x 34.3 cms
Est: -
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.SKETCH FOR LEFKOcoloured inkssigned and dated ‘70 Sight 16.5 ins x 13.5 ins; 41.9 cms x 34.3 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoEstimate: $3,000–4,000
Waddington's
Dec. 03, 2015
John Meredith (1933-2000) Saint Joan Painting
Est: $200 - $400
Artist: John Meredith (1933-2000); Title: Saint Joan; Medium: Watercolor painting; Year or Era Produced: 20th century; Signature: Lower right; Sight Area Approximate Measurement: 17.75" x 15"; Frame Approximate Measurement: 28.5" x 22.5" x 1"; Approximate Weight: 7 lbs; Frame: Framed under glass
J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC
Nov. 23, 2015
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., UNTITLED #1, coloured inks, 13.5 ins x 16.5 ins; 34.3 cms x 41.9 cms
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.UNTITLED #1coloured inkssigned and dated ‘67 13.5 ins x 16.5 ins; 34.3 cms x 41.9 cms Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery, TorontoCanadian Fine Arts, TorontoPrivate Collection, Toronto
Waddington's
Nov. 23, 2015
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., SKETCH FOR RAMADAN, coloured inks, 13.75 ins x 16.75 ins; 34.9 cms x 42.5 cms
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.SKETCH FOR RAMADANcoloured inkssigned and dated ‘66 13.75 ins x 16.75 ins; 34.9 cms x 42.5 cms Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoLiterature:Ian Thom, John Meredith: Drawings, 1957-1980 (catalogue), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1980, unpaginated.Note:Ian Thom asserts that “most of Meredith’s important paintings, and all of his work from 1966 on, relate directly to drawings.” While the painting based on this drawing has not yet been located, the lot, nonetheless, is significant in its own right. Thom notes that Meredith was greatly attracted to the use of coloured inks at this time because they were “brighter and more transparent than watercolours” and “could be used with brush or pen giving Meredith a choice of drawing tool and considerable freedom of expression.”
Waddington's
Nov. 23, 2015
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A., UNTITLED, oil on canvas, 33 ins x 33.5 ins; 83.8 cms x 85.1 cms
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.UNTITLEDoil on canvassigned and dated ‘58 33 ins x 33.5 ins; 83.8 cms x 85.1 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:John Meredith: A Retrospective, 1955-1990, with an introduction by Paul Duval, Kaspar Gallery, 1990, unpaginated.Note:In contrast to John Meredith’s later works – with their inky calligraphy – the artist’s 1950s canvases are vigorous and encrusted with rich impasto. Dashes across the canvas – red, blues, yellows – are woven together in intense animation.Paul Duval writes, “It would be difficult to find an artist with a more immediate impulse of expression, short of recklessness… Meredith’s lines and shapes animate his canvases with a surprising and sometimes explosive tension yet, in the end, always achieve a precarious balance.”
Waddington's
May. 25, 2015
JOHN MEREDITH, BLACK NIGHT, 1959, oil on canvas, 36 ins x 48 ins; 91.4 cms x 121.9 cms
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
JOHN MEREDITH BLACK NIGHT, 1959 oil on canvas 36 ins x 48 ins; 91.4 cms x 121.9 cms Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoNote:John Meredith (Smith) was the younger brother of William Ronald (Smith) of Painters Eleven fame, but in contrast to Ronald, he was an introvert who stayed on the margins of the Toronto art community, and his work evolved at a slow and steady pace. Despite this tendency towards reclusiveness, Meredith shared an interest in Abstract Expressionism with the other young abstract painters of his generation (he began to show at the Isaacs Gallery in 1961), along with a quality that critic Barry Hale has termed "expressionist lyricism"--evidence of the artist's hand over the surface of the painting, and total engagement with the artwork. Meredith developed his own distinctive style within the so-called "Toronto Look."Meredith studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1950-1953 and had his first one-man show at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1958. A second show followed in March 1959 which consisted of paintings with vertical stripes that varied in colour, width and paint texture. Marie Fleming characterized these early works as alluding to human or vegetal forms and as having "a strong sense of a standing, growing force" in the catalogue of her 1974 Meredith exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.Dark Night is characteristic of Meredith's work between 1958 and 1962. The work is structured by a series of vertical lines, all of which deviate slightly from the perpendicular and extend across the entire width of the canvas. Its horizontal orientation compels us to read the work from left to right, towards the whitish stripe two-thirds of the way across which catches the eye. Otherwise, the palette is sombre--blue, black, red and ochre, mixed directly on the canvas. The vertical lines have been drawn with the brush, the field punctuated by more spontanous applications of ochre, which gives the canvas an overall texture. The work has been informed by Borduas and the Automatistes in spirit and by American Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman in its exploration of the vertical.As the title suggests, Black Night is full of mystery. What do the vertical lines represent? Trees, a line of figures in profile, or figures lurking in a forest? It demonstrates the creative approach that Meredith explained in the catalogue of his 1974 exhibition: to give material form to his conscious and unconscious reactions to the world, to colour and form and to develop new ideas through experimentation.
Waddington's
May. 25, 2015
JOHN MEREDITH, VOYAGE, oil on canvas, 72 ins x 48 ins; 127 cms x 182.9 cms
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
JOHN MEREDITH VOYAGE oil on canvassigned, titled and dated "70-71" on the reverse, and signed, titled and dated "Jan/71" and "/71" on the stretcher 72 ins x 48 ins; 127 cms x 182.9 cms Provenance:Private Collection, OntarioLiterature:Art Gallery of Ontario: Selected Works, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1990, page 338. Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., Vancouver, 2007, page 243.Note:A superb colourist, it is easy to overlook what is perhaps considered Meredith's great, even greatest, talent: his expressive rendering of line. Using a technique that would stimulate his compositions and become a kind of signature of his best work, Meredith smudged the wet ink of his drawings, and later the wet painted lines of his canvases, electrifying the lines and dramatically energizing his composition. The result was the successful transfer of energy from the drawing onto the canvas. Meredith, thereby, creating a kind of painted drawing. By the mid-1960s, Meredith was using his ink drawings to produce finished work. We are indebted to a private collector in Toronto who generously has lent us, for exhibition purposes only, Meredith's drawing for Voyage.Nasgaard writes that by the 1970s Meredith's drawing "is nervous, agitated, and overlaid on free-floating bursts of brilliant colour. The edges are more extravagantly feathered and appear more spontaneous than ever, entirely belying Meredith's actual working technique. He first worked out painting as a coloured drawing, and then transferred the drawing to canvas, the enlargement accomplished by covering the drawing with transparent graph paper and then proceeding to paint in the matching squared off canvas. He enlarged the sketches without making changes, replicating carefully the dragged and smudged lines and the nuanced modulations of his coloured inks."
Waddington's
Mar. 05, 2015
JOHN MEREDITH, UNTITLED (NO.23), watercolour, 26.25 ins x 20.5 ins; 66.7 cms x 52.1 cms
Est: -
JOHN MEREDITHUNTITLED (NO.23)watercoloursigned, dated, and inscribed "NO 23" 26.25 ins x 20.5 ins; 66.7 cms x 52.1 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoEstimate: $1,000-1,500
Waddington's
Nov. 24, 2014
JOHN MEREDITH, UNTITLED, watercolour and ink on paper, Sight 19.5 ins x 20.5 ins; 49.5 cms x 52.1 cms
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
JOHN MEREDITHUNTITLEDwatercolour and ink on papersigned and dated '65 Sight 19.5 ins x 20.5 ins; 49.5 cms x 52.1 cms Provenance:Isaacs Gallery, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoLiterature:John Meredith: A Retrospective 1955-1990, Kaspar Gallery, Toronto, April 27-May 16, 1991, plate no. 5, for a closely related work entitled Study for Left Panel of Seeker, 1966, reproduced. Note:Paul Duval writes "John Meredith is one of the most lyrical of Canadian painters. It would be difficult to find an artist with a more immediate impulse of expression, short of recklessness. On Meredith's part, any impending recklessness is reined in by his obsession for drawing - drawing in the purest sense, not as a descriptive tool, but existing in its own gestural right, with a line that follows its own unchartered path of discovery. Meredith's line is sometimes madcap, sometimes slow, often wayward, but always vital, and much of his presence as a lyric painter depends upon it."
Waddington's
Mar. 14, 2013
JOHN MEREDITH
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
JOHN MEREDITH ABSTRACT COMPOSITION, 1961, coloured inks on bond paper; signed 10.5 ins x 14.5 ins; 26.3 cms x 36.3 cms Provenance: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. Private Collection, Toronto.
Waddington's
Nov. 28, 2011
JOHN MEREDITH1933 - 2000
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
RIO signed, titled and dated /69 on the reverse oil on canvas 181.7 by 304.8 cm. 71½ by 120 in.
Sotheby's
Jun. 02, 2011
JOHN MEREDITH ABSTRACTION, acrylic on paper;
Est: $700 - $900
JOHN MEREDITH ABSTRACTION, acrylic on paper; signed and inscribed "VI III" 19 ins x 24 ins; 47.5 cms x 60 cms
Waddington's
Mar. 25, 2010
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian ink on paper Untitled #1
Est: $1,400 - $1,600
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian ink on paper Untitled #1 14 x 16 3/4 inches 35.6 x 42.5 centimeters signed and dated 1967 Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., Toronto Private Collection, Toronto
Heffel
Dec. 03, 2009
JOHN MEREDITH 1933 - 2000
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
BENGAL II signed and dated u.l.: MEREDITH '62; signed, titled and dated DEC. '62 by the artist on the stretcher on the reverse and titled on two labels on the reverse
Sotheby's
Nov. 27, 2008
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian coloured inks
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian coloured inks and collage on paper Abstract 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches 34.9 x 42.5 centimeters signed and dated 1981 Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited:Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Toronto
Heffel
Nov. 19, 2008
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas June '61 39 x 55 inches 99 x 139.7 centimeters signed and dated 1961 and on verso signed, titled and dated on the stretcher Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., Toronto Women's Committee of the Art Gallery of Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited:Art Gallery of Toronto, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition and Sale of Contemporary Canadian Painting, Sculpture and Graphics: Quebec - Ontario, October 25 - November 11, 1963, catalogue #97 In Meredith's June '61, contorted vertical bands and stripes, in alternating tonalities of brilliant colours, take on vegetal and then cellular connotations, alluding to a primal and evolutionary realm.
Heffel
Mar. 29, 2008
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas Kayokao AOL0308-E05595-001 48 x 60 inches 121.9 x 152.4 centimeters on verso signed, titled on The Isaacs Gallery label and dated 1977 Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto This painting is titled after the artist's wife.
Heffel
Mar. 29, 2008
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas Black Night AOL0308-E05595-002 36 x 48 inches 91.4 x 121.9 centimeters on verso titled on The Isaacs Gallery label Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Please note: this work is unframed.
Heffel
Aug. 23, 2006
John Meredith (CANADIAN, 1933-2000)
Est: £300 - £500
Sketch for ZT #60 signed and dated 'MEREDITH '66' (lower left), with inscription and signature 'Sketch for ZT #60/John Meredith' (on a label on the reverse) watercolour 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (34.9 x 42.5 cm.)
Christie's