Fall 2009 - 2nd Session Live auction

Lot # 277

Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson
ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA 1882 - 1974 Canadian

Near Go Home Bay
oil on panel
signed
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in  26.7 x 34.3cm

Provenance:
By descent to a Private Collection, Barrie, Ontario
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 25, 2005, lot 54
Private Collection, New York

Literature:
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter's Country, The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, pages 25 and 74

A.Y. Jackson first traveled to Go Home Bay in Georgian Bay in 1913 when Dr. J.M. MacCallum, a patron of the Group of Seven, offered him the use of his comfortable house on an island there to paint. Jackson wrote, "Paddling around islands and exploring intricate channels and bays that cut into the mainland provided me with much material." He was there again in 1922, and wrote that "Go Home Bay and the outer islands are filled for me with happy memories of good friends and of efforts...that I made to portray its ever-varying moods."

Estimate: $15,000 ~ $20,000 CAD

Sold For: $29,250.00 CAD (including buyer's premium)