Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
1918 - 2014
BCSFA OC RCA
Joseph (Joe) Francis Plaskett is best known for his figurative work, particularly of the interior of his Paris apartment. Plaskett was born in New Westminster, British Columbia. He attained an Honours B.A. in History at the University of British Columbia and then took a year of teacher training. For five years, he worked as a teacher. During this time, he took formal art instruction in the evenings at the Vancouver School of Art, and he received encouragement from G.G. Sedgewick, Lawren Harris and Jock MacDonald. In 1945, Plaskett spent a summer painting with A.Y. Jackson at the Banff Summer School. That same year Plaskett joined the B.C. Society of Artists, and in 1946 he was awarded the first Emily Carr Scholarship, which enabled him to study art at the California School of Fine Art. His work at this time consisted of landscapes of the Okanagan Valley and the Cariboo District of British Columbia, as well as imaginative figurative paintings and abstractions.

From 1947 to 1949, he assumed the principalship at the Winnipeg School of Art. In 1947, and during a summer in 1948, he continued his studies in New York under well-known abstractionist and critic Hans Hofmann. In 1949, Plaskett resigned from the Winnipeg School and sailed to Paris to paint full time, where he was drawn away from abstraction. He also spent time in London, studying at the Slade School of Art in 1951. In 1957, he settled in Paris, where he acquired two floors of a fifteenth century apartment building in the Marais district, which he decorated with Louis 16th style furniture and objects that he found in local flea markets. He created many views in pastel and oil of his apartment’s interiors, including still lifes, as well as portraits of the scholars, artists, writers and aristocrats who visited him there. Plaskett’s intimate and romantic vision of his life in Paris through the microcosm of his apartment was fascinating.

tario and Winnipeg Art Gallery, as well as others. He received the Order of Canada in 2001.
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Still Life by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $46,250
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Still Life
39 1/2 x 58 1/2 in, 100.3 x 148.6 cm
oil on canvas triptych
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 CDN
Sold for: $46,250 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Thursday, May 30, 2024
Still Life After Breakfast by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $18,720
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Still Life After Breakfast
23 1/2 x 47 in, 59.7 x 119.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 CDN
Sold for: $18,720 CDN (premium included)
Fall 2008 - 1st Session on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Les tulipes et les anémones by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $17,550
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Les tulipes et les anémones
28 3/4 x 36 1/2 in, 73 x 92.7 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for: $17,550 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2010 - 1st Session on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Still Life After Breakfast by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $16,380
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Still Life After Breakfast
28 1/4 x 39 in, 71.7 x 99 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for: $16,380 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2009 - 1st Session on Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Nasturtiums with Three Figures by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $13,800
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Nasturtiums with Three Figures
39 x 19 1/2 in, 99 x 49.5 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CDN
Sold for: $13,800 CDN (premium included)
January 2008 - 1st Session on Saturday, January 26, 2008
White Space by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $13,800
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
White Space
46 x 35 in, 116.8 x 88.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for: $13,800 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Spring 2008 on Thursday, May 22, 2008
Still Life by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $13,750
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Still Life
47 x 23 in, 119.4 x 58.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 CDN
Sold for: $13,750 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Thursday, May 26, 2022
Blue Jug by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $11,700
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Blue Jug
31 x 31 in, 78.7 x 78.7 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000 CDN
Sold for: $11,700 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2010 - 1st Session on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Flowers and a Bust by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $11,115
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Flowers and a Bust
36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in, 92.1 x 73 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for: $11,115 CDN (premium included)
Fall 2009 - 1st Session on Thursday, November 26, 2009
Table with Blue Check Cloth #3 by Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett sold for $10,625
Joseph Francis (Joe) Plaskett
Table with Blue Check Cloth #3
28 3/4 x 36 in, 73 x 91.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 CDN
Sold for: $10,625 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art | Part Two on Thursday, September 30, 2021