LOT 60 CLARENCE ALPHONSE GAGNON, R.C.A.
OXEN PLOUGHING, QUEBEC, etching and drypoint, signed in the margin, some creasing
2 3/4" x 5 1/4"; 6.9 cm x 13.1 cm
Auction Estimate: $2000 / $3000
Literature:
Ian Thom, The Prints of Clarence Gagnon, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, 1981, pages 9-10, plates 5-8, illustrated, for the four states of this print produced between 1902-1905.
Helene Sicotte and Michele Grandbois, Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942, Dreaming the Landscape, Quebec, 2006, page 368, plate 3, illustrated.
Executed circa 1904.
This work is possibly the third or the fourth state and depicts the activity of field labour against the light of the late-afternoon sun.
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