PAUL-EMILE BORDUAS, R.C.A.
UNTITLED COMPOSITION, oil on canvas, signed

20 ins x 24 ins; 50 cms x 60 cms
Auction Estimate: $75,000 / 100,000

Price Realised: $60,500.00
Provenance: Laing Galleries, Toronto

LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
SUMMER HOUSES, GRIMSBY PARK, ONTARIO (CITY PAINTINGS XXVII), oil on canvas, signed and titled on a label on the stretcher

36 ins x 40 ins; 90 cms x 100 cms
Auction Estimate: $175,000 / 225,000

Price Realised: $203,500.00
Provenance: Lawren P. Harris, Ottawa
Exhibited: An Exhibition of The Group of Seven, The Art Gallery of Toronto, April, 1930. Lawren Harris Paintings 1910-1948, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 16 October – 14 November, 1948, no. 50. Also circulated by The National Gallery of Canada. Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906-1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, January 14 – February 26, 1878, no. 139.
Literature: C.C. McKay, “Group of Seven.” Saturday Night, XLV, 22 (12 April 1931), page 15. Lawren Harris Paintings 1910-1948, catalogue, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 1948, cat.no.50. Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, pages 163-165 and plate 139, reproduced. Peter Larisey, Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris’s Work and Life – An Interpretation, Toronto, 1993, pages 71, 74 and 77, plate 17, reproduced in colour.
Adamson dates this work circa 1926.
When this painting was exhibited in the seventh Group of Seven show, in 1930, the reviewer for Saturday Night found that after the “determined somberness of Lawren Harris’ later landscapes” it was “with relief… that we see some of (his) really glorious houses again.” He added that Summer Houses, Grimsby Park, Ontario was among “perhaps the finest pictures in the exhibit.”
Larisey states that this canvas was probably Harris’s last painting in the urban-oriented realist tradition, although only traces of realist subject matter and composition remain… Of special note here is the colour… In this painting, even the greens are affected by the overall blue tone of the painting. The warmest colour is a pink on the window sashes, roof and chimney of the house in the middle. At first glance the general composition is typical of Harris’s urban landscapes. However, the cottages are arranged like the dead trees in many Lake Superior works such as Above Lake Superior: we look beyond them into a brighter distance. The tree trunks in Summer Houses, Grimsby Park, Ontario are carefully lit from the left, stressing three dimensionality. The trunks, foliage and the houses themselves are painted with a simplification and often a smoothness that removes them from a naturalistic mode.

JEAN-PAUL LEMIEUX, R.C.A.
LE TRAIN, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘80

53 ins x 111 ins; 132 cms x 277.5 cms
EST. $100,000 / 125,000
PRICE: $88,000.00
Provenance: Bram Garber Collection, Montreal

PAUL-EMILE BORDUAS, R.C.A.
CASCADE D’AUTOMNE, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘54

45 ins x 58 ins; 112.5 cms x 145 cms
Auction Estimate: $180,000 / 220,000

Price Realised: $187,000.00
Provenance: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
Exhibited: En route!, Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal, 12-26 October, 1954.
Literature: Pascal (pseudonym), “Borduas peintre gai,” Le Canada, Montreal, October 18, 1954, page 12. The article is illustrated with a photograph of Agnes Lefort and Borduas in front of Cascade d’automne. Francois-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Emile Borduas, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1988, page 319 (footnote 8) and fig.13, reproduced.

ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.
HIGH WATER, oil on board, signed

37 ins x 48 ins; 92.5 cms x 120 cms
EST. $75,000 / 100,000
PRICE: $82,500.00
Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver
Exhibited: 77th Annual Exhibition, Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, 1949. Opening Exhibition, The Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, 1967, no.23 (as October Reflections). The Elsie Perrin Williams Art Museum, London, Ontario.