Bernice Fenwick Martin
(1902 - 1999)
Previously Sold Works
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Spring, Markham, Ont.
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
10.5 x 13.75 ins ( 26.7 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,080.00
Sale date: April 27th 2021
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Rainy Weather, Kearney, Ontario (Magnetawan River)
oil on board
signed and dated 1933 lower left; titled and dated “Fall 1933” on the reverse
8.5 x 10.25 ins ( 21.6 x 26 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $1,080.00
Sale date: March 21st 2023
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Buttermilk Falls, Burk’s Falls, Ontario
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed lower right; titled and dated “circa 1932” on the reverse
10.5 x 13.75 ins ( 26.7 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $978.00
Sale date: November 25th 2015
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Lumber Mill
oil on board
inscribed “179” and “EI50” on the reverse; an unfinished landscape on the reverse
10 x 13.5 ins ( 25.4 x 34.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,020.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
West Wind Blow on Toronto Bay
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; inscribed “Storm Over Toronto Bay; West Wind Blow on Toronto Bay c. 1939” on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $920.00
Sale date: December 14th 2016
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Autumn Village Study
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; artist’s stamp on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $960.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Circus at Christie Pits Park, July 1st
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; titled, dated “circa 1939”, inscribed “held each July 1st” and the artist’s stamp on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $900.00
Sale date: March 23rd 2016
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Lambton Market Garden Farm
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $900.00
Sale date: March 1st 2022
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Safe Harbour Ashbridges Bay, Toronto Ontario
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
10.5 x 13.75 ins ( 26.7 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: March 23rd 2016
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Country Hotel
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
8.5 x 10.25 ins ( 21.6 x 26 cms )
Auction Estimate: $750.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: November 30th 2021
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Still Life
oil on canvas laid down on card
signed lower right; titled and stamped with the artist’s name and address on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: March 26th 2024
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
In the Orchard
oil on board
signed lower right; signed titled and with artist’s stamp on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $748.00
Sale date: June 14th 2017
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
Muskoka Rapids
oil on canvas, laid down board
signed lower left; signed, titled, dated circa 1933 and the artist’s stamp on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $748.00
Sale date: June 14th 2017
BERNICE FENWICK MARTIN
River Landscape
oil on canvas board
signed on the reverse and stamped “Jim A. Hennok Ltd.”; unframed
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $590.00
Sale date: October 17th 2018
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Bernice Fenwick Martin Biography
(1902 - 1999)
Born in Shelbourne, Ontario, Martin studied at the Ontario College of Art under noted Canadian artists J.W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael. After the death of Beatty in 1941, she found friendship in Peter Clapham Sheppard whom she studied and worked with until his death in 1965. Working in oil, watercolour and woodcut, Martin focuses on real scenes, Toronto harbour scenes, still life, and Northern landscapes with particular concentration on the Muskoka, Haliburton, and Algonquin Park regions of Ontario. She had works showcased at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1945-1947 and solo exhibitions of her work in Toronto galleries throughout her career. “I look back on my life and my painting hours were the happiest. I’d spend long hours and forget time…my time was always measured by the passage of light.”
(With details from Canadian Heritage Art Gallery, “A Celebration of the Art and Life of Bernice Fenwick Martin”, Kleinburg, 2010, page xi)
