For over 30 years Mayberry Fine Art has quietly brokered sales for countless Canadian and International works of art from private collections.

We provide complete services to confidentially assist you with the sale of complete collections or single works of art.

What to expect when selling or consigning your artwork with Mayberry Fine Art

• Use our Appraisal and Valuation form to send us details on the work(s) of art you may wish to sell. Some of the details we will need include.
  • Artist Name
  • Size (measurements)
  • Date
  • Signature
  • When and where aquired
  • Condition
  • Good quality photograph
• After a fair market value has been agreed upon, we may need to examine the artwork for condition and authentication.
• In the case of larger works or collections which may be awkward to transport, we will visit your location to view the works.
• Crating and shipping is available when needed.
• Purchase options include outright purchase or consignment sale.
• Commission with regard to consignment sales is an agreed-upon percentage between Mayberry Fine Art and the seller. It is based on the value of the artwork. Commission on higher valued works can be as low as 5%.
• Unless specifically expressed otherwise all values and prices discussed or published are in Canadian funds.

Click here to complete the valuation form.

Marie-Cecile Bouchard

1920 - 1973
 
Born in Baie-St-Paul, Quebec, Marie-Cécile was one of 14 children in an artistic family. She began painting as a teenager, following in the footsteps of her older sister, Simone-Mary. The subjects she chose to depict were ones that were close to her heart and experience, interior scenes of daily life, old homes and holidays. Her works reflected country living, family life and her Catholic faith. When her work was shown at an exhibition of Canadian art in Brazil in 1945, she garnered favourable reviews. In an article in the O Estado de Sao Paulo, Serigio Milliet wrote "...One of the most touching primitives that we have seen, a true painter of fairy tales playing with a palette rich and, at the same time delightfully unsophicated."

In 1947, she entered the Convent of Sister of Sainte Antoniennes de Marie in Chicoutimi and sadly gave up painting for 22 years. At the end of her life, she began to paint once again, completing 30 paintings inspired by earlier works. She died in Chicoutimi in 1973, at the age of 43. After her death, in Le Progréss Régional, a Chicoutimi paper, Marcel Portaler described her work as "having purity of line, simplicity of colour , full of lyricism whic sang of othe fields and ancient traditions of rural Quebec.

Ref:
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Vol.1, by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks, Ottawa, Revised and expanded, 1997