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06/01/2026

It's the final day to preview and bid in our Spring Fine Art auction. Bidding starts to close Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT. ✨️

👁 Visit us June 1 from 12 - 4 PM for your last chance to preview the full sale in person, including this weird and wonderful Victor Cicansky piece.

🖥 Not in Calgary? You can see the full catalogue online at hodginsauction.com!

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Victor Cicansky
ARMCHAIR MAN WITH VEGETABLES; 1986
glazed clay
12.5 x 9 x 8.5 in. (31.8 x 22.9 x 21.6 cm)
signed and dated on the underside

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05/31/2026

Two days left to preview and bid in our Spring Fine Art auction!

Join us in Calgary May 31 and June 1 from 12 - 4 PM for showroom previews.

Find the full catalogue online at hodginsauction.com. Bidding starts to close June 1 at 7 PM MT. 🖼

Showroom previews for our Spring Fine Art auction are open!Join us from Friday, May 29 through Monday, June 1 to view ou...
05/29/2026

Showroom previews for our Spring Fine Art auction are open!

Join us from Friday, May 29 through Monday, June 1 to view our full sale in person.

📍 4115-7005 Fairmount Dr. SE, Calgary
📆 Friday, May 29 - Monday, June 1
⏰12 PM - 4 PM

Can't make it in? View the full catalogue onine at hodginsauction.com!

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Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT

Georgia Jarvis
A HEAVY PULL
oil on masonite
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm)
signed lower right; signed and titled verso

Provenance: LaFlamme Galleries, Calgary AB

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The composition for “Making a Smudge” (1976) first appeared in William Kurelek’s second children’s book, “A Prairie Boy’...
05/28/2026

The composition for “Making a Smudge” (1976) first appeared in William Kurelek’s second children’s book, “A Prairie Boy’s Summer”. Kurelek would return to these images in later paintings, like we see here, spurred by the popularity of their subjects. He often referred to them as “potboilers”, a somewhat self-deprecating label from the humble artist, for these pastoral scenes of prairie life that would become among the artist’s best-known paintings. "A Prairie Boy’s Winter and Summer", and this overall aspect of his practice, were enormously popular and established Kurelek as a beloved “people’s painter”. Critics and collectors alike resonated with these evocative scenes of prairie life.

While there is a sentimental quality to the illustrative imagery and text, the apparent simplicity is deceptive. Kurelek’s childhood, which he is depicting here, was by no means gentle. An anxious and introverted child, Kurelek struggled deeply to connect with others, was physically fragile, and experienced mental health challenges from an early age. In his autobiography, “Someone With Me”, he describes his life as an outsider both in his family and at school. Moreover, farm work is grueling. As The New York Times noted of “A Prairie Boy’s Summer”, the book “walks the straight furrow between the sentimentality of nostalgia and the brutalizing of sweated labor.”

Like much of Kurelek’s work, “Making A Smudge” is a duality. As the evening sun sets, glowing softly over the trees, the young William pitchforks a burning pile of hay and manure: a tender and harsh image that captures both the quiet beauty of a prairie evening and the difficult, gritty realities of farm life.

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William Kurelek
Canadian RCA [1927-1977]
MAKING A SMUDGE; 1976
mixed media on masonite
14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
monogrammed and dated lower right; titled verso

Provenance: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto ON (label verso); Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB (stamped verso)

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Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT
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05/27/2026

Leo Mol was born Leonid Molodozhanyn at Polonne, Ukraine in 1915. The son of a potter, Mol sculpted from an early age, and continued his artistic training in Leningrad before his conscription during the second world war. Mol fled to The Hague in 1945, then to Saskatchewan in 1948 with his wife, where he found work on a grain farm for a brief period before setting out for Winnipeg in 1949.

In Winnipeg, Mol found himself work as a church muralist, and soon became a prominent mural and stained glass artist, creating over 80 windows for churches across the area, and held his first ceramics exhibition shortly after arrival. He also began capturing distinctly Canadian scenes in sculpture: square dancers, skiers, curlers and more, embracing the cultures surrounding him with characteristic enthusiasm.

Mol was a noted leader in the Ukrainian Canadian community in Manitoba and beyond. In 1992, the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden was established at Assiniboine Park after he donated more than 300 sculptures to the city of Winnipeg. His work ethic and drive to create was well known by anyone that knew him, as was his humble nature about his prominence in Canadian art: "Sometimes I feel a little bit like an outcast," he noted, "(but) art is serving the community in a spiritual form . . . and I like to serve the silent majority."

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Leo Mol
Canadian MSA, RCA, SSC [1915-2009]
SQUARE DANCERS; 1953
glazed ceramic
10.5 x 8 x 5 in. (26.7 x 20.3 x 12.7 cm)
signed and dated on the underside

Note: With exhibition card signed by the artist.

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Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT
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In June 1936, Sir Frederick Banting travelled to Jasper National Park en-route to the annual Canadian Medical Associatio...
05/26/2026

In June 1936, Sir Frederick Banting travelled to Jasper National Park en-route to the annual Canadian Medical Association convention in Victoria. He was the very first guest for the opening of the season at Jasper Park Lodge on June 15th: "I just bummed around there and loafed and painted," he told reporters at the convention, "I had intended on going south after the convention, but I was so charmed with the place that I have decided to spend another few days in Jasper on my return." True to his word, he did return and spent three additional weeks in Jasper to devote his time entirely to sketching. Most of Banting's surviving Jasper sketches are attributed to this trip.

The vantage point of "Maligne Lake, Canadian Rockies" is likely from the area of the Bald Hills in Jasper National Park. Today, the challenging route through Bald Hills passes through a forest of lodgepole pine to treeline, where summits and ridgelines connect through alpine meadows, allowing one to wander and take in the everchanging views of Maligne Lake and the surrounding peaks.

"I have never found myself in such surrounding anywhere else," he stated upon returning from this 1936 trip, "No matter where you look, you find something majestic, dignified, and awe-inspiring. To me it is one of the most beautiful settings in the world."

🔗Read the full article via the link in our bio!

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Sir Frederick Grant Banting
MALIGNE LAKE, CANADIAN ROCKIES; 1936
oil on wood panel
10.5 x 13.5 in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
Signed lower right; inscribed verso "26094", "164" and "Mrs. Banting / 205 Rosedale Heights Dr."

Exhibited: "Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Sir Frederick Banting", Hart House, University of Toronto, February 13 to March 1, 1943 (label verso)

Provenance: Lady Henrietta Banting, Toronto ON; Private Collection, Calgary AB
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Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT
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𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬:
* Frederick Banting in Jasper, 1936
* Lady Henrietta Banting at the Hart House Exhibition of paintings by Sir Frederick Banting, 1943. MALIGNE LAKE, CANADIAN ROCKIES is the second painting from the left.

05/25/2026

Jeff de Boer first became intrigued by armour as a 5-year old boy, accompanying his mother on a trip to Calgary's Glenbow Museum. His father was a sheet metal fabricator, so de Boer had easy access, from an early age, to the materials and tools with which to experiment. He made his first armoured mouse in 1986, while still a student at the Alberta College of Art & Design (now
AUArts). His chosen specialty of jewellery design, which required working with tiny tools to create fine detail, was instrumental in igniting the spark that grew into a lifetime passion.

De Boer has said of his armoured mouse series: "The mouse symbolizes an eternal underdog...By giving the mouse armour, I think it stands a fighting chance to take on the hostile world of cats (predators)". "The suit of armour is a transformation vehicle...something that only a hero would wear".

Each charming and whimsical armoured work - the artist has created over 500 during his 40 year career - takes inspiration from cultural and military history, whether Samurai, Hussar, or Medieval warrior. The museum-quality armour is carefully researched, detailed, and each piece meticulously hand-crafted.

Jeff de Boer
Canadian ASA, RCA [b. 1963]
CRUSADER (ARMOURED MOUSE); 2012
nickel alloy, brass and wood; #7/8 (unique)
mouse length: 5.75 in. (14.6 cm)
overall size on base: 2.5 x 7 x 2 in. (6.4 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm)
signed, dated and numbered on the inside of the mouse and underside of the base

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Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT
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⭐️Illingworth Holey (Buck) KerrCanadian ASA, BCSA, FCA, RCA [1905-1989]TURNER VALLEY NOCTURNE; 1979oil on canvas board12...
05/25/2026

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Illingworth Holey (Buck) Kerr
Canadian ASA, BCSA, FCA, RCA [1905-1989]
TURNER VALLEY NOCTURNE; 1979
oil on canvas board
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
monogrammed lower left; signed, titled and dated verso

Nicholas Johannes BottCanadian [1941-2021]MORNING MOUNTAIN LIGHToil on canvas30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm)signed lower ri...
05/23/2026

Nicholas Johannes Bott
Canadian [1941-2021]
MORNING MOUNTAIN LIGHT
oil on canvas
30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
signed lower right; titled on the stretcher verso

Provenance: Diana Paul Galleries, Calgary AB (label verso)

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Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT
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“I want to give Canadians a sense of the country, a sense of what we have here in terms of the beautiful creatures.”- Jo...
05/20/2026

“I want to give Canadians a sense of the country, a sense of what we have here in terms of the beautiful creatures.”
- Joe Fafard

Joe Fafard [1942-2019]
HARMONIE II; 2009
laser cut stainless steel with powder coating; ed. #3/5
37.5 x 43 x 5.5 in. (95.3 x 109.2 x 14 cm)
signed, dated and editioned along the base

Provenance: Corporate collection, Calgary AB

Spring 2026 Fine Art | Monday, June 1 at 7 PM MT
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