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Provenance: Former private collection of A. K. Prakash, Toronto, ON; Mr. Prakash is an art collector, dealer, art historian, and author of “Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery” (2014).
The location of this deeply rich and touching hospital scene is unknown, although it was rendered during a time when Suzor-Coté was painting in Normandy and Brittany. Drenched with light, which enhances the remarkable calm of this interior, THE VISIT, is an example of how this versatile painter and sculptor excelled in genre scenes.
The artist is noted as the first French-Canadian Impressionist to achieve recognition and success during his life and was part of a progressive trend among young Canadians to train in France, the artistic centre of modernism. In 1907, Suzor-Coté returned to Quebec after more than a dozen years away and began to exhibit extensively in Canada, acclaimed especially for his winter landscapes of the Eastern Townships where he grew up.
