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Lot # 124 Fall 2012 - 2nd Session Live auction Lawren Stewart Harris ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG 1885 - 1970 Canadian Hurdy Gurdy oil on canvas circa 1913 signed and on verso signed, titled on the artist's label and inscribed "Margaret Knox / Bess Harris Collection / 93 / This was painted by my Father Lawren S. Harris" 18 3/8 x 18 1/4 in 46.7 x 46.3cm Provenance: Collection of the Artist A gift from the Artist to his daughter Margaret (Peggie) Knox, Vancouver By descent within the family of the Artist Literature: Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906 - 1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, listed page 225 Ian Thom and Andrew Hunter, Lawren Stewart Harris, A Painter's Progress, The Americas Society, 2000, a related 1913 canvas entitled Hurdy Gurdy, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, reproduced page 16 Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, 2011, reproduced page 63 and the related 1913 canvas Hurdy Gurdy reproduced page 61 James King, The Life of Lawren Harris, 2012, reproduced page 114 Exhibited: Art Gallery of Ontario, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906 - 1930, January 14 - February 26, 1978, catalogue #80 For full cataloguing, text and images in PDF format please click here.
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