Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz

Canadian (1860 - 1930)

Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz's estimated art value is C$20,000 (*)

Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$5,000 - C$50,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz (1860-1930) was C$43,200 - paid for "A Little Girl" at Cowley Abbott in Toronto on Thu, Dec 1, 2022.
ArtValue.ca has 29 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$5,000 to C$50,000.

Portrait Study Of Two Children In An Orchard
oil on canvas
Dimensions - 90.2 cms x 59.7 cms (35.5 ins x 23.5 ins)

Lot for sale by Waddington's Auction House, Toronto
Lot# 71
Mon, May 26, 2014

Estimate $20,000 - $30,000
Sold for CAD $28,320

Waddington's Auction House Biography and Notes

Laura Muntz resided in Paris from 1891-1898 and it was here that she fell under the spell of Impressionism, adopting its open brushwork and sunlit themes to her own purposes. In Paris she would have had access to works by the great Impressionists of the day and Paul Duval speculates that she may well have seen the 1893 one-woman exhibition of Mary Cassatt's work at Durand-Ruel. Duval quotes Muntz, who bore no children of her own, passionately declaring that she "had only two hobbies -  painting and children. I don't know which I am fonder of."  While we are uncertain of the identity of the children Muntz paints here with such tenderness, it is clear that her two declared hobbies come together in this single work, resulting in one of the finest double portraits by Muntz to have appeared at auction.

(*) Value is calculated as an average of the top oil painting sale records from ArtValue.ca database.
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