The pre-auction estimate was $8 million to $10 million.<\/p>\n
Femme au chapeau<\/em>\u00a0was one of the paintings\u00a0Picasso showed in 1956 at the Kootz Gallery in New York,\u00a0his first commercial art show in the U.S. The most expensive Picasso ever sold at auction was\u00a0Les femmes d’Alger\u00a0(“Version O”)<\/em>, which fetched $238.7\u00a0million Cdn\u00a0at a Christie’s auction in May 2015.<\/p>\n The Canadian highlight of the auction was the Emily Carr painting\u00a0Street, Alert Bay<\/em>, which fetched $2.4 million.<\/p>\n It was painted in 1912 upon Carr’s return from a trip to France and depicts a First Nations village in British Columbia.<\/p>\n A second Carr painting,\u00a0Spring<\/em>,\u00a0sold for $390,000 and a Lawren Harris painting consigned by American actor Steve Martin,\u00a0Mountain Sketch LXX<\/em>, also sold for $390,000.<\/p>\n Martin co-curated a 2015-2016 exhibition of Group of Seven founder Harris’s northern landscapes that made stops in Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto.<\/p>\n A total of 113 works of art were presented for auction in the annual fall sale, including five Carrs.<\/p>\n The highest price ever achieved at auction for\u00a0an Emily Carr work is $3.39 million, which an anonymous buyer paid at the 2013 Heffel fall auction for the large format, mature period painting\u00a0The Crazy Stair (The Crooked Staircase)<\/em>.<\/p>\n The increasing number of artworks offered for sale in Canada by foreign art collectors indicates the country’s rising place in the global art market, according to David Heffel, president of Heffel Fine Art Auction House.<\/p>\n CBC<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5364770.1574179230!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/emily-carr.jpg\")
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