Emily Carr canvas featured at auction

‘Cordova Drift’ expected to go for more than $2 million at Heffel fall sale

Emily Carr is expected to command the digital showroom at Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s fall sale.

Carr’s 1931 seaside forest scene “Cordova Drift,” is estimated to draw between $2 million and $3 million, and is among seven works by the B.C. painter set to invite bids Wednesday.

Other standouts include the 1912 oil-on-board “Maude Island Totem,” which is expected to fetch between $700,000 and $900,000, and the forest landscape “Music in the Trees,” circa 1935, which auctioneers estimate to be worth between $250,000 and $350,000.

A total of 80 works will hit the auction block in Heffel’s digital showroom, which will be streamed from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver as buyers place bids online, by phone or in absentia.

Another highlight of the fall catalogue is Paul Kane’s circa 1855 Canadiana canvas “Assiniboine Hunting Buffalo,” which the auction house bills as rare and historically significant.

It’s estimated to draw between $2.5 million and $3.5 million.

The auction house also touted a set of 20 porcelain plates handpainted by Cornelius Krieghoff in the 1800s.

It’s expected to fetch between $40,000 and $60,000.

Heffel said its catalogue is expected to net a total of between $12 million and $17 million.

All estimates include auction house fees on top of the hammer price.

More than 80 works of art will be on the block in a digital showroom being streamed from several cities.