LOT 119

AAM RCA
1866 - 1934
Canadian

Cab Stands, Phillips Square, Montreal
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1911 and on verso titled "Phillips Square / Le carré Phillips" on the Agnes Etherington exhibition label and certified by the Cullen Inventory #1316
26 x 32 in, 66 x 81.3 cm

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000 CAD

Sold for: $541,250

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PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
Mr. C.V. Esdaile
Mr. Cook, Montreal
Mr. G. Drummond and Mrs. Anne Birks, Montreal
By descent to the present Private Collection, Montreal

LITERATURE
George Burgoyne, "Montreal's Spring Art Show," Canadian Courier, vol. 1, no. 17, March 25, 1911, reproduced page 11
"Mr. M. Cullen Wins Prize for Phillips Square," Montreal Gazette, April 1, 1911
Montreal Star, June 16, 1956, reproduced
Hugues de Jouvancourt, Maurice Cullen, 1978, reproduced page 37
Sylvia Antoniou, Maurice Cullen, 1866 - 1934, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1982, listed page 70

EXHIBITED
Art Association of Montreal Spring Exhibition, 1911, catalogue #82
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Maurice Cullen, 1866 - 1934, September
26 - October 31, 1982, traveling in 1983 to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Gallery of Hamilton; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Edmonton Art Gallery, exhibited as Phillips Square / Le carré Phillips, catalogue #38
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Retrospective Maurice Cullen, December 9, 1983 - January 22, 1984, catalogue #38


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Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000 CAD

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