Phillip Henry Howard Surrey

Canadian (1910 - 1990)

Phillip Henry Howard Surrey was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Phillip Henry Howard Surrey's estimated art value is C$10,000 (*)

Phillip Henry Howard Surrey's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$5,000 - C$25,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Phillip Henry Howard Surrey (1910-1990) was C$25,000 - paid for "Interior of Bus with Figures" at Heffel in Vancouver on Thu, May 28, 2020.
ArtValue.ca has 85 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$5,000 to C$25,000.

Woman in the Shadows, Montreal
mixed media on board
Dimensions - 101.6 cms x 152.4 cms (40 ins x 60 ins)

Lot for sale by Heffel Auction House, Vancouver
Lot# 044
Wed, Nov 19, 2008

Estimate $18,000 - $22,000
(Not sold)

Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes

After living in Calgary, Winnipeg and in Vancouver where he studied under the Group of Seven's Frederick Varley, Phillip Surrey settled in Montreal in the late 1930s, where he pursued his career as a painter and journalist. It was in Montreal that Surrey's style acquired its distinctive elements that expressed his vision of the dichotomic theme of urban social solitude. This was most frequently symbolized by using human figures passing through a cityscape, often an oneiric illuminated nightscape, as exemplified by this evocative painting. Throughout his oeuvre, Surrey proved to be a master of light and shadows and elevated his compositions to a level of beautiful complexity where different realities intertwine, the real and the dreamlike.

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