Earlier this year, Sotheby’s Canada announced that it was ceasing live auctions. Their very first live auction was held in 1967 at the Arcadian Court, Simpsons in Toronto and, as it happens, Hamilton businessman Herman H. Levy (McMaster Museum of Art’s greatest benefactor), was in attendance. We thought you’d enjoy this clipping from our archives.

The painting that Herman Levy purchased at that auction is now on view in the Museum’s exhibition The Moderns. This exhibition explores Levy’s passion for 20th century art.

Regina Haggo wrote a wonderful article about Chaim Soutine and McMaster Museum of Art’s paintings (a second painting by Soutine was purchased with Herman Levy’s Bequest) specifically in the July 13 issue of the Hamilton Spectator. Read it here!