There is an excellent photograph and mini-story on the globe and mail today covering a William Kurelek painting that will be part of our annual Historical Canadian Works exhibition next week.
King of the Castle, valued at $300,000, was bought by Winnipeg’s Mayberry Fine Art last year after its unnamed owner in Britain had sought an [...]

VALUABLE KURELEK PAINTING SURFACES VIA MIDDLE-OF-THE-NIGHT E-MAIL TO WINNIPEG ART DEALER’S BLACKBERRY

Mayberry Fine Art’s discovery of Canadian artist’s “King of the Castle” masterwork – its whereabouts previously unknown – proves serendipitous for public galleries in Winnipeg, Hamilton and Victoria

WINNIPEG, Manitoba – For Winnipeg fine art dealer Shaun Mayberry, the excitement of [...]

Born in Sainte-Rose, Quebec in 1888. Died in Macamic, Quebec in 1970. Marc-Aurele Fortin RCA studied the rudiments of painting with Ludger Larose and Edmond Dyonnet from 1904 to 1908 when he left for Edmonton, Alberta to work in a bank from 1908 to 1910. Before returning to Montreal in 1912 he studied at the [...]