ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
1885 - 1970
Canadian
Mountain Experience
oil on canvas
on verso signed, titled, dated circa 1946 on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection exhibition label, inscribed "F75" twice and variously and stamped Lawren Harris LSH Holdings Ltd. 172
51 1/2 x 44 1/2 in, 130.8 x 113 cm
Estimate: $150,000 - $250,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Montreal
PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
LSH Holdings Ltd., Vancouver
Estate of the Artist
The Collection of Torben V. Kristiansen, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Lawren Harris Paintings 1910 – 1948, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1948, listed page 35, titled as Abstract Painting
Bess Harris and R.G.P. Colgrove, editors, Lawren Harris, 1969, listed page 145 and reproduced page 93, dated 1954
Dennis Reid, Atma Buddhi Manas: The Later Work of Lawren S. Harris, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985, reproduced page 34 and listed and reproduced page 87
Megan Bice and Sharyn Udall, The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1994, reproduced page 167 and listed page 175
EXHIBITED
Vancouver Art Gallery, 15th Annual British Columbia Artists’ Exhibition, September 21 – October 13, 1946, titled Abstract Painting of a Mountain Experience, catalogue #53
Little Centre, Victoria, Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Lawren Harris, October 29 – November 17, 1946, titled Abstract Painting of a Mountain Experience I, catalogue #19
Art Association of Montreal, 64th Annual Spring Exhibition, March 21 – April 20, 1947, titled Subjective Painting, Mountain Experience, catalogue #111
Art Gallery of Toronto, Lawren Harris Paintings 1910 – 1948, October 16 – November 14, 1948, traveling in 1949 in Canada, titled Abstract Painting, catalogue #63
Exhibited continued:
Vancouver Art Gallery, Lawren Harris: Recent Paintings, May 10 – June 15, 1955, shown at the University of British Columbia in October 1955, catalogue #12
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Lawren Harris, March 19 - April 2, 1958, traveling to the Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Art Museum, London, catalogue #11
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Lawren Harris Retrospective Exhibition, June 7 - September 8, 1963, traveling to the Art Gallery of Vancouver, October 4 - 27, 1963, dated 1950 - 1952, catalogue #49
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Atma Buddhi Manas: The Later Work of Lawren S. Harris, September 28 - November 24, 1985, traveling in 1986 to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, catalogue #49
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925 - 1945, January 30 - April 17, 1994, traveling in 1994 - 1995 to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina, catalogue #86
For full cataloguing, essay and images in PDF format, please click here.
For the biography on Torben V. Kristiansen in PDF format, please click here.
Estimate: $150,000 - $250,000 CAD
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