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1904 - 1974
Canadian
Georgian Bay
oil on board
signed and on verso titled on the gallery labels and dated circa 1955 on the Rumi gallery label
29 x 36 in, 73.7 x 91.4 cm
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CAD
Sold for: $18,720
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Rumi Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
LITERATURE
Sandra Paikowsky, Goodridge Roberts, 1904 - 1974, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1998, page 161
Goodridge Roberts returned to Georgian Bay in the summer of 1955 after a European sojourn. Full of energy, he found a renewed appreciation for the geographical area of Pointe-au-Baril and Parry Sound. These landscape paintings were technically praised. Sandra Paikowsky wrote, “By applying the paint in short, rectangular movements, he animates the sky and water to give it a more organic personality and to undermine the ‘remoteness’ of Georgian Bay.” Very different in style from the landscapes Roberts painted of Quebec, these Georgian Bay landscapes had their own personality. Open flat vistas of rock and water create a feeling of expansiveness while staying true to the topography of the region. A showing of his European and Georgian Bay works was organized by the Dominion Gallery in October of 1955. The 1950s was a significant period internationally for Roberts; five of his paintings were included in the XXVI Venice Biennale, alongside the works of Emily Carr and David Milne. This secured his place as one of the leading Canadian landscape painters of his generation.
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CAD
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