John Lim

Canadian (1932)

John Lim is a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, John Lim's estimated art value is C$900 (*)

John Lim's work could be available for sale through Art Galleries or at public auction with prices in the range of C$500 - C$1,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an acrylic painting work attributed to John Lim (1932) was C$960 - paid for "The Vibrant Summer" at Waddington's in Toronto on Thu, Sep 29, 2016.
ArtValue.ca has 51 auction art sale records for their acrylic painting results, with prices in the range of C$500 to C$1,000.

Cowley Abbott Auction House Biography and Notes

A painter, printmaker, sculptor, author and illustrator, John Lim was born in Singapore and has lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada since 1964. He held a solo show at the Shaw-Rimmington Gallery, Toronto. His work was noted by the "Globe and Mail" as follows, "John Lim has ventured into his first bronzes, then modestly limited them to an edition of one only. One assumes it's modesty because his bronzes are fine enough to tempt a number of owners. Lim is cautious, restricting himself to a safe vocabulary. All sculptors eventually have to do a Daedalus and a Mother and Child and a Reclining Figure. But with these exercises he's finding his way into the real ideas—the tension he asks of a suspended torso or the strong way, in Eros, that he roughly splits a column to get his two figures."

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