JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD, O.SA., R.C.A.
STREAM IN ALGOMA, oil on board, signed with initials, certified by Thoreau MacDonald on the reverse
Painted circa 1919-20.
8 ½ ins x 10 ½ ins; 21.3 cms x 26.3 cms
Auction Estimate: $30,000 / 40,000

Price Realised: $72,600.00
According to an inscription on the reverse by Thoreau MacDonald, this work depicts the same stream as The Little Falls, 1919, considered one of the artist’s most important Algoma paintings.

DAVID BROWN MILNE
THREE PAINTERS, oil on canvas
Painted at Boston Corners, N.Y. in 1916.
20 ins x 24 ins; 50 cms x 60 cms
Auction Estimate: $125,000 / 150,000

Price Realised: $115,500.00
Provenance: Douglas Duncan, Toronto
The figures depicted in this work are Patsy Milne and probably Anne and James Clarke.
This painting will be included in David Milne Jr., and David P. Silcox’s forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist’s work (107.51).

ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.
FARMLAND AT AVOCA, QUEBEC, 1972, oil on canvas, signed

36 ins x 46 ins; 90 cms x 115 cms
EST. $40,000 / 60,000
PRICE: $55,000.00
Provenance: Roberts Gallery, Toronto

PAUL-EMILE BORDUAS, R.C.A.
CARNET DE BAL, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘55; inscribed “A mon cher Gilles en temoignage d’une rencontre (signed) Borduas” on the reverse

36 ins x 42 ins; 90 cms x 105 cms
Auction Estimate: $140,000 / 160,000

Price Realised: $187,000.00
Provenance: Gilles Corbeil, Montreal
Exhibited: Panorama 1 de la peinture au Quebec. Deux Cents Ans de Peinture Quebecoise, Ecole Francaise d’Ete, McGill University, Montreal, 30 et 31 juillet, 1969, no. 9a. Borduas et les automatistes, Montreal, 1942-1955, Grand Palais, Paris, 1110 – 14/11, Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, 2/12 ‘71 - 16/1 ‘72.

DAVID BROWN MILNE
MOUNTAIN SIDE, oil on canvas, signed and dated “Sept. 4”
Painted at Boston Corners, N.Y. in September, 1920.
18 ins x 22 ins; 45 cms x 55 cms
EST. $125,000 / 150,000
PRICE: $121,000.00
Provenance: Douglas Duncan, Toronto
Milne, writing of the colour in this work, explains: “The use of a large quantity of purple, cold dark green and bluish grey black together with the sharply contrasting yellow and white give an unusual cast to the picture.”
This painting will be included in David Milne Jr., and David P. Silcox’s forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist’s work (201.118).