Lot # 124

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

Référence:
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

Exposition:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906 - 1930, January 14 - February 26, 1978, catalogue #80

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S'est vendu pour: $1,082,250.00 CAN (prime d'achat incluse)
Estimation: 400,000 $ ~ 600,000 $ CAN

Exposé à: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto