TEFAF New York Spring 2019
Donald Ellis Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the third edition of TEFAF New York Spring to be held at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, from May 3-7, 2019 with a VIP preview day on May 2nd.
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Frieze New York 2019
Donald Ellis Gallery is pleased to announce its participation, for the third time, in Frieze New York to be held in Randall’s Island Park, New York, from May 2-5, 2019 with VIP previews on May 1st and May 2nd.
Financial Times feature
The Financial Times highlights Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition "Two Thousand Years of Inuit Art" at Frieze Masters 2017 in a full page article.
Art Newspaper Interview
Donald Ellis was featured in a full page interview in the March 2016 issue of the Art Newspaper.
Capt James Cook
The gallery was thrilled to acquire late in 2011 a highly important object collected by Capt James Cook on his Third Voyage to the Pacific in 1778 and negotiate its sale to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC with funding provided by the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts. This becomes the only object collected by Cook that can be seen in Canada.
Collaboration with Equinox Gallery in Vancouver
Inside Passage: Exploring the Artistic Practices of the First Peoples of the Northwest Coast
June 25 - July 20th, 2011
Opening reception: Saturday June 25, 2-4pm
The exhibition will include masterworks of historical and contemporary art from the Northwest Coast.
For details see: www.equinoxgallery.com
The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art
Donald Ellis Gallery acted as consultant and lent a number of works of art to the extraordinary The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art exhibition organized at the Vancouver Art Gallery:
May 28 - September 25, 2011
This important exhibition, the most comprehensive Surrealist survey ever seen in Canada and for the first time explores the relationship between the Surrealists and the Northwest Coast of Canada and Alaska.
Winter Antiques Show
Donald Ellis Gallery’s recent exhibition in January in New York at the Winter Antiques Show was an overwhelming success. The gallery broke several world records including the sale of the iconic Donati Studio mask, which became the most expensive Native American work of art ever sold. The gallery had sales in excess of $10,000,000, which significantly surpassed the previous record of $7,100,000 at the sale of the Dundas Collection of Northwest Coast Art in 2006. As a result of these activities the gallery received an enormous amount of press worldwide.
Announcing the New 2011 Catalogue
Donald Ellis Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of its 11th annual catalogue. The 72 page full colour catalogue features over 40 outstanding objects including an exceptional pair of Eskimo masks from the collection of the Surrealist painter Enrico Donati, and a rare 18th century Tsimshiam Antler Club. You may purchase the catalogue here.
