Artist: Clarence Alphonse Gagnon
Title: STUDY, WINTER SILENCE (LAURENTIANS)
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 7.75 x 9.75 in. (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Notes:
titled and certified on a label (verso) by Lucile Rodier Gagnon (no. 511)
Provenance: Canadiana House, Calgary, AB (label verso)
Clarence Gagnon was born in a small village in Rural Quebec and began his formal art education under William Brymner at the Montreal Association of Art. Like many Canadian artists of his time, Gagnon travelled to Paris in 1904 to continue his studies. Here, he attended the Academie Julien and became immersed in the artistic community, gaining recognition for his work at the St. Louis Art Exhibition, and at the Salon de la Societe des Artistes Francais. While in Paris, Gagnon painted with James Wilson Morrice and became influenced by his plein-air sketching techniques. Upon his return to Quebec in 1908, he settled in Baie-St-Paul along the St. Lawrence River, though he would go on to spend much of his life living and working in France.
It is in the Laurentians where he produced most of his plein-air sketches, that he often used back in his studios to develop larger canvases. Gagnon’s affection for his homeland was evident in his work regardless of whether he was in Quebec or overseas. Where his contemporaries of the Group of Seven became known for their often bold, rugged depictions of Canadian wilderness, Gagnon’s contribution to the national art of Canada was in his more cultured and idyllic scenes which celebrated rural Quebec and the French-Canadian way of life.
LOT: 70
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Robert Wakeham Pilot
Title: TOBOGGANING IN WINTER
Date: ca 1925
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18.25 x 15 in. (46.4 x 38.1 cm)
Notes:
Provenance: Galerie Dominion, Montreal, QC; Former private collection Peter Ohler, Sr., Vancouver, BC; Masters Gallery, Calgary, AB (labels verso)
LOT: 69
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Pegi Nicol Macleod
Title: MOUNTED POLICE ON A CITY STREET, NEW YORK / PORTRAIT OF GIRL SUCKING HER THUMB (likely the artist's daughter)
Medium: oil on board (double-sided)
Dimensions: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Notes:
Provenance: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, QC (label verso)
LOT: 68
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: William Goodridge Roberts
Title: STILL LIFE
Date: ca 1950
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Notes:
signed
Provenance: Kastel Gallery, Montreal, QC (stamp verso); Borduas Marchand d’Art, Montreal, QC (certificate verso); Masters Gallery, Calgary, AB (label verso)
LOT: 67
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Phyllis Mendell
Title: DAYDREAM
Medium: bronze on a rotating base; ed. #7/10
Dimensions: height: 12.75 in. (32.4 cm)
Notes:
signed & editioned
Provenance: Masters Gallery, Calgary, AB
LOT: 66
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Robert Ford Gagen
Title: ST. LAWRENCE SCENE WITH SAILBOAT AND FISHERMEN HAULING IN THEIR NETS
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 40 in. (73.7 x 101.6 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 65
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote
Title: OLD BRIDGE, ARTHABASCA, P.Q.
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 6.25 x 8.5 in. (15.9 x 21.6 cm)
Notes:
signed; titled on gallery label verso
Provenance: Masters Gallery, Calgary, AB
LOT: 63
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall
Title: GIRL IN WHITE
Date: 1902
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 18.25 in. (61 x 46.4 cm)
Notes:
signed & dated
LOT: 62
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall
Title: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL
Medium: oil on canvas, relined
Dimensions: 16.75 x 18.25 in. (42.5 x 46.4 cm)
Notes:
Provenance: Peter Ohler Fine Arts, Vancouver, BC (label verso)
Note: Authenticated on stretcher verso by Paul Duval.
LOT: 61
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Les Thomas
Title: HARE (AP #06-4724)
Date: 2006
Medium: oil and wax on panel
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated verso
Provenance: Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB (label verso)
LOT: 105
Auction: 2017 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
