BEACH SCENE

8,190.00
Price Realized: $
Artist: Philip Henry Howard Surrey
Medium: oil on hardboard
Dimensions: 12 x 21 in. (30.5 x 53.3 cm)
Notes:

signed
Provenance: Kastel Gallery, Westmount, QC (label verso)

Born in Calgary, to an adventurer father, and an artistic mother who taught him to sketch at an early age. Surrey moved around extensively for the first ten years of his life, spending time in exotic locations all over the world. He became good at watching and listening. While his upbringing was rich, his formal education was sporadic. He returned to Canada secretly with his mother in 1921, moving to a Manitoba farm, then to Winnipeg on his own at age 14. It is here that he began his formal artistic education, earning an apprenticeship at Brigden’s in the commercial art department. He began attending classes at the Winnipeg School of Art, under LeMoine FitzGerald and George Overton. Later, he studied under Jock MacDonald and F. H. Varley, at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. In 1937, after a short period of studies in New York, Surrey settled in Montreal. Here, he spent the following twenty-five years dividing his time between his art and working at the Standard (Weekend Magazine), until his employer afforded him an opportunity to paint full-time. Surrey exhibited successfully and prolifically for the next twenty years. He is best known for his visceral urban scenes, and for his expressive figurative paintings. Surrey captures the duality of human existence in a poetic way: portraying his subjects at once as both social and solitary creatures.

4,000.00
Estimate:
6,000.00
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LOT: 122

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