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ALBERT HENRY ROBINSON, R.C.A.
BAIE ST. PAUL, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1928
27 ins x 33 ins; 67.5 cms x 82.5 cms
Auction Estimate: $100,000 / 125,000
Price Realised: $121,000.00
Provenance: Stevens Art Gallery, Montreal, Acquired by the present owner in 1946
Literature: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Canadian Collection, Toronto, 1970, page 399, plate 50/4. Jennifer Watson, Albert H. Robinson, The Mature Years, The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 1982, page 46, Fig. 17, reproduced.
Exhibited: 60th Annual R.C.A. Exhibition, Art Association of Montreal, 16 Nov. – 16 Dec. 1939, no. 58. Albert Henry Robinson, Stevens Art Gallery, Montreal, February, 1946.
The sketch for this canvas is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
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MARC-AURELE FORTIN, A.R.C.A.
COUCHER DE SOLEIL, oil on board, signed
Painted circa 1938.
20 ins x 26 ¼ ins; 50 cms x 65.6 cms
EST. $30,000 / 40,000
PRICE: $28,600.00
Provenance: Paul Vaillancourt
Exhibited: Centenary Exhibition of the Birth of Fortin, Musee Marc-Aurele Fortin, Montreal, 1988, no.P384.
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ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT, P.R.C.A.
FALLING SNOW, NORTH RIVER, PIEDMONT, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘46
24 ins x 32 ins; 60 cms x 80 cms
Auction Estimate: $25,000 / 35,000
Price Realised: $22,000.00
Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, Mrs. David G.H. McConnell, Montreal, Continental Galleries, Montreal
Exhibited: Robert W. Pilot Exhibition, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Nov. 1 – Dec. 6, 1968, no. 39. Also shown at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and The Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Literature: Robert W. Pilot Retrospective, catalogue, Montreal, 1968, page 24, plate 39, reproduced.
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LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
LAKE IN ALGOMA, NORTHERN PAINTINGS II, oil on canvas, signed
Painted circa 1925.
42 ins x 50 ins; 105 cms x 125 cms
EST. $275,000 / 325,000
PRICE: $264,000.00
Provenance: Roberts Gallery, Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection, Lucerne, Quebec, Private Collection, Ottawa
Exhibited: Canadian Group of Painters. The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, November, 1933, no. 21. The Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 15 October – 15 November, 1970, no. 19. Also shown at Sir George Williams University, Montreal; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor; Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke and Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton.
Literature: List of Pictures Painted by Lawren Harris and Stored at the Gallery, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1934, no. 18 (listed with a brief description of this canvas). Doris Mills, The Paintings of Lawren Harris, Toronto, 1936, no. 2, (listed under “Northern Paintings”). Lawren Harris Retrospective Exhibition, 1963, catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1963, pages 23-26 for an essay by Paul Duval entitled From Nature to Abstraction, 1921-1931. Pierre Theberge, The Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1970, plate 19, reproduced. Dennis Reid, The Group of Seven, Ottawa, 1970, page 163, plate 127 for another canvas by Harris entitled Algoma Country (Art Gallery of Ontario Collection).
Duval writes that it is in the productive decade between 1920 and 1930 that the technical aesthetic resources possessed by Harris are most clearly apparent and notes the artist’s “high-keyed panoramas of Algoma” as well as Harris’ depiction of “the richly tangled forests of Algoma”, motifs which are evident in this canvas.
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