Luke Orton Lindoe

Canadian (1913 - 1998)

Luke Orton Lindoe was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Luke Orton Lindoe's estimated art value is C$7,000 (*)

Luke Orton Lindoe's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$5,000 - C$10,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Luke Orton Lindoe (1913-1998) was C$7,605 - paid for "A Hat Afternoon Before the Green of Spring" at Levis in Calgary on Sun, Apr 21, 2013.
ArtValue.ca has 104 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$5,000 to C$10,000.

3000 B.C.
glazed clay
Dimensions - 19.05 cms x 19.05 cms x 3.81 cms (7.5 ins x 7.5 ins x 7.5 ins)

Lot for sale by Saskatchewan NAC Auction House, Regina
Lot# 126
Sat, Nov 20, 2021

Estimate $70 - $100
Sold for CAD $88

Saskatchewan NAC Auction House Biography and Notes

Luke Lindoe was born on 8 March 1913 in Bashaw, Alberta. He worked as an underground coal miner while studying painting and then sculpture at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, now the Alberta College of Art and Design (1935-40) in Calgary. He went to Toronto to study sculpture at the Ontario college of Art (OCA) and there became interested in ceramics. Lindoe was an instructor at the Alberta College of Art from 1947 to 1957, where he developed the ceramics department. He move to Medicine Hat in 1957 to enter the brick and tile industry, having joined the I-XL company as director of research and mining. In 1964 Lindoe left his job at I-XL Industries and launched Plainsman Clays, a company that would supply potter's clay to institutions. Over his career Lindoe gained a deep understanding of the properties of clay, with which he experimented all his life.

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