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A New Space in the World of Contemporary Art,
the New ODON WAGNER CONTEMPORARY

The original building was transformed into the state-of-the-art ODON WAGNER CONTEMPORARY. With over 5000 sq. feet this new building is now an ideal venue to showcase and exhibit the art of our International and Canadian contemporary ...click here for more details


 
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, by John W. Russell
new arrival at ODON WAGNER GALLERY

 
"Unasking Whispers" bronze, 5'7" wide
by Gary Weisman (American, contemporary)

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Horizon in the Park
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir's sculptural installation in Chicago

Gallery artist Steinunn Thorarinsdottir is displaying her life-size bronze figures in Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University in Chicago, on now until September 2010.

The installation titled 'Horizon' consists of twelve figures installed throughout the park. To view an image ...click here for more details


 
After the Show
Chaki's Toba River Series

Odon Wagner Contemporary would like to thank all those who made Chaki's latest exhibition Chaki: After the Toba River such a success!
If you didn't get a chance to come in and see the show, there are a limited number of paintings from the series still available for viewing and purchase ...click here for more details


 
A Tribute to the Art of Fine Living
Odon Wagner Gallery joins The Ritz-Carlton for an evening of inspiration

On the evening of June 16th, 2009, the Odon Wagner Gallery celebrated the luxury and sophistication of the Residences at Ritz-Carlton Toronto with an exhibition of important new paintings and sculpture at the Roy Thompson Hall.

Along with music from recording artist Molly Johnson and a selection ...click here for more details


 
A Natural Force

Willy Ramos Art Studio in El Pais

Gallery artist Willy Ramos has been featured in a recent article entitled "Estudis d'Art Willy Ramos: Una força de la naturalesa" in the Spanish publication El ...click here for more details


 
Glenn Priestley joins Odon Wagner Contemporary

Odon Wagner Contemporary is proud to welcome Glenn Priestley to its roster of artists. A solo show of Glenn's work will be mounted in our newly renovated contemporary gallery.

Glenn Priestley is a Toronto-born artist, painter, printmaker and teacher now living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. ...click here for more details


 
Frances Cockburn joins Odon Wagner Contemporary

Odon Wagner Contemporary is proud to welcome Frances Cockburn to its roster of artists. A selection of her work is on display at our 196 Davenport Road location.

Frances Cockburn was born in Cambridge, Ontario and now lives and works in Owen Sound. She has been painting professionally since ...click here for more details

 
Bernard Pothast
A master of the genre painting.

Afternoon Sewing Lesson
25 x 30"
oil on canvas
signed "B. Pothast" (lower right)

Bernard Pothast (1882-1966) was born in Belgium, studied in Amsterdam and spent most of his career in England. His painting is very much in the Classical Dutch style of genre painting with ...click here for more details


 
A Painter in His Studio - to Manet and Vermeer
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COMING SOON!
Odon Wagner Contemporary Opens at 198 Davenport Road

Odon Wagner Contemporary will be moving into its new location at 198 Davenport Road in the spring of 2009.

Conveniently located next door to our traditional gallery at 196 Davenport Road with over 5000 square feet of custom designed glass and concrete exhibition space, the new gallery will ...click here for more details


 
Danby show delivers easygoing, iconic images

by Peter Goddard, The Star, Entertainment 06 Dec 2008



T
hese days it's reasonable to think that little media attention might be paid to a Ken Danby show at the conservative Odon Wagner gallery – especially from critics interested in what's new and ...click here for more details


 
Michael Davidson in Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting

Gallery artist Michael Davidson is featured in The Magenta Foundation's recent survey on the best in Canadian painting.
Following The Magenta Foundation's successful Carte Blanche Vol. 1: Photography in 2006, Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting is aimed at bringing recognition ...click here for more details

 
Winter Landscape
by Iw. F. Choultse

For over twenty-five years the Odon Wagner Gallery has successfully dealt in the works of Ivan F. Choultsé, building collections worldwide. Having sold nearly fifty works through the gallery is no small feat, considering there have been no more than 161 on offer at international auction since 1970. ...click here for more details

 
Toronto International Art Fair 2008
October 2-6, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Odon Wagner Gallery is excited to be participating again at this year's Toronto International Art Fair from October 2 - 6, 2008. On display will be a selection of new works from our contemporary artists as well as fine paintings and prints from leading modern masters. Click here ...click here for more details


 
A Passion for Quality and Connoisseurship
Odon Wagner Gallery celebrates 40 years of Fine Art

Odon Wagner Gallery offers appraisal services for collections and individual works of art, whether you are looking to sell your art or learn more about its current market value.

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A New Odon Wagner Contemporary
at 198 Davenport Road
We are very excited to announce that our Contemporary space will be moving to a new address in the Fall of 2008. The new Gallery will be conveniently ...click here for more details

 
RODIN'S TETE DE BALZAC
A LIFETIME CAST BY THE MOST INFLUENCIAL SCULPTOR OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Odon Wagner Gallery is excited to announce the arrival of Rodin's Tete de Balzac, a 19th century bronze of famed French novelist Honoré de Balzac. This particular bronze was cast in the artist's lifetime c. 1912 by the Alexis Rudier Foundry in Paris and is part of the amazing history of Rodin's career.
The ...click here for more details

 
A RORSCHACH TEST OF PENCIL SHAVINGS
Globe and Mail Review

GARY MICHAEL DAULT
garymdault@sympatico.ca
May 10, 2008
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CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, May 2008
Featuring the Award-winning Work of Eric Klemm

ERIC KLEMM: SILENT WARRIORS

2008 CONTACT FEATURE EXHIBITION: MAY 3-31
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Marco Sassone: Toronto - The Globe and Mail
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"For those who think of Toronto as Hogtown, brash and brutish and bereft of romance, a new series of paintings by Marco Sassone begs to differ.

With gestural brush strokes and an expressionistic use of colour, Mr. Sassone romanticizes such banal views as a Carlaw parking lot and the westbound ...click here for more details


 
Qi: Paintings by Zhang He

Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to present new paintings from the Montreal-based painter Zhang He in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. With paint like hot lava, the artwork of Zhang He surges onto the canvas. His bold strokes of colour and luminous hues are gorgeous and seductive, ...click here for more details


 
2007 Canadian Antiques Roadshow
Odon Wagner featured in the Montreal Gazette article, "For What it's Worth"

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Illuminated Landscapes
by Don Resnick at 172 Davenport rd.

Illuminated Landscapes

He who looks on nature with a 'loving eye,' cannot move from his dwelling without the salutation of beauty; even in the city the deep blue sky and drifting clouds appeal to him. And if to escape its turmoil—if only to obtain a free horizon, land and water in the play ...click here for more details


 
Treacy Ziegler in Conversation with Laura Peturson

In the months leading up to the opening of An Open Window, Laura Peturson of Odon Wagner Contemporary and Treacy Ziegler engage in a correspondence about the artist's technique and process.
LP: Your previous exhibitions with Odon Wagner Contemporary have been exclusive to printmaking. ...click here for more details


 
An Open Window
by Treacy Ziegler at 172 Davenport rd.
Toronto - Odon Wagner Contemporary announces the opening of An Open Window, an exhibition of thirty new paintings by American artist Treacy Ziegler. This is the first time that Ziegler, who is known for her atmospheric etchings and collagraphs, has created an expansive body of work ...click here for more details

 
Waterways
Paintings by Wang Yihua at 196 Davenport Rd

PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release

Wang Yihua: Waterways October 27 – November 18, 2006

Toronto – Odon Wagner Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Waterways, an exhibition of paintings by Chinese artist Wang Yihua. These canal scenes of Zhou Zhang depict a 900 year-old ...click here for more details


 
Personae
Paintings by Tata Navia

PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release

Tata Navia: Personae October 20 – November 11, 2006

Toronto – Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Personae, an exhibition of eighteen new paintings by Colombian born artist Tata Navia. These works depict chairs arranged ...click here for more details


 
From Symbols to Ceremony
An Exhibition of Chinese Textiles

September 29 – October 21, 2006
To view the exhibition online click HERE.
The presentation of this exhibition coincides with a major conference for the Textile Society of America, October ...click here for more details


 
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir: Inner Light

September 22 – October 14, 2006
To view the exhibition online click HERE.
Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Inner Light, an exhibition of new sculptures ...click here for more details


 
11th Annual Canadian Art Gallery Hop

This year, the Canadian Art Foundation has centred it's Gallery Hop Gala and Events arount the theme of GLOCAL... where local meets Global. At the Galleries is a series of free gallery talks on Saturday, September 16th, which highlights artists, curators and dealers whose work reflects the ...click here for more details


 
The Globe and Mail Online Auction
The Odon Wagner Gallery will once again be participating in The Globe & Mail On-line Auction taking place this month. We have submitted for auction a selection of paintings from both our contemporary and traditional & modern collections. Works by living artists such as Yehouda Chaki, Willy Ramos ...click here for more details

 
From Europe to China and Back Again
This online exhibition features works from the Odon Wagner Gallery and Odon Wagner Contemporary collection. The exhibition highlights the evolution of still life painting from its traditional beginnings to its contemporary interpretations. To view the entire exhibition please click here. ...click here for more details

 
CONTACT Exhibition at Odon Wagner Contemporary
Odon Wagner Contemporary will be participating in this years CONTACT photography festival with an exhibition of new photographic work by Eric Klemm, Impressions on the Land (May 5-May 31).
The CONTACT photography festival begins May 1 and runs until May 31.
This year's theme is Imaging ...click here for more details

 
Magic Realism and the Painting of Ivan F. Choultse


The Odon Wagner Gallery is seeking to purchase works by Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé and other Russian artists including A. Harlamoff, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya E. Repin, K. Korovine, I. Aivazovsky, D. Burliuk.

For over twenty-five years the Odon Wagner Gallery has successfully dealt in the ...click here for more details


 
On The Road Again!
Odon Wagner will once again be a featured expert on the Canadian Antiques Roadshow as they embark on their third country wide tour. Odon will be appearing in Moncton, NB on May 19th, Toronto June 8th, Hamilton June 11th and Kitchener on June 14th. Bring in your treasures or watch on the CBC!
Tickets ...click here for more details
 
Eric Klemm: Impressions on the Land

PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release
Eric Klemm: Impressions on the Land
May 5 – 31, 2006
For the complete exhibition click HERE.
Toronto – Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce ...click here for more details


 
Chaki: Blue Line, Green Line

PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release
Yehouda Chaki: Green Line, Blue Line
May 11 – June 3, 2006
For the complete exhibition click HERE.
Toronto – Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the ...click here for more details


 
Passage of Time: Gideon Tomaschoff
PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release
Gideon Tomaschoff: Passage of Time
February 23 - March 18, 2006
Toronto - Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Passage of Time, an exhibition of new paintings by Gideon Tomaschoff on February 23, 2006 (reception: 6-9pm). The exhibition ...click here for more details

 
Original portrait of the Abbot Lama
by Roland Strasser (1895-1974), Austrian artist and explorer

Currently on view at the Odon Wagner Gallery is a wonderfully vibrant, yet delicately composed portrait of the Abbot of the Lama Cloister of Zain Zabi. This original portrait by Roland ...click here for more details


 
ART AND MUSIC COME TOGETHER AT ODON WAGNER GALLERY

Odon Wagner Gallery was pleased to host a private recital for Honens members on behalf of Honens International Piano Competition. Circle members were treated to an outstanding performance by 23 year old Xiang Zou, the youngest pianist ever to become First Laureate of the Honens International Competiton. ...click here for more details


 
ARE YOUR PAINTINGS AGING WELL?
Article published in Collections Magazine

by: Laura Peturson, Curator, Odon Wagner Gallery

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NOW ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS:

The Odon Wagner Gallery is currently looking for fine 19th and early 20th century paintings. The Odon Wagner Gallery offers a safe, discrete alternative to auctions, whether you are estate planning or selling a single painting. The Odon Wagner Gallery is unique to the Toronto ...click here for more details

 
A SURPRISE IN EVERY SHOT

By GARY MICHAEL DAULT

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PAINTING FINDS A HOME AT THE CNIB

In May 2005 the Canadian National Institute for the Blind enthusiastically accepted the donation of a painting by French contemporary artist Rafael Mahdavi by the Odon Wagner Gallery.
Heaven and Earth was considered for the CNIB due to the braille used by the artist to convey the mood ...click here for more details


 
Introducing ODON WAGNER CONTEMPORARY

--New Gallery to open in Yorkville –
APRIL 7, 2005

Odon Wagner Gallery is pleased to announce it will be expanding into a second gallery space. Odon Wagner Contemporary will open at 172 Davenport Rd., a few doors down from Odon Wagner Gallery, on Thursday, April 7th, 2005 with a private ...click here for more details