AAM RCA
1866 - 1934
Canadian
The Church at Sault-au-Récollet
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled on the Walter Klinkhoff gallery label and certified by Cullen Inventory #1123
15 x 18 in, 38.1 x 45.7 cm
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CAD
Sold for: $26,325
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private Collection,Toronto
Maurice Cullen traveled to Paris when the French Impressionists were at the peak of their careers. He absorbed their use of fresh, bright colour and their practice of painting en plein air using brush-strokes that dissolved the solidity of their subject. On his return to Canada, Cullen championed painting out-of-doors and capturing the clear atmosphere of Quebec’s landscape. This captivating painting includes two subjects important to Cullen: rivers in winter and Quebec’s traditional towns and cities - here a Montreal neighbourhood bordering on the Rivière des Prairies. His ability as an Impressionist is apparent in the softly brushed mauve and pink-beige in the sky, and its darker reflection in the river. Cullen’s treatment of rivers in winter was exquisite – his enduring theme of Laurentian rivers such as the Cache and the North is an important part of his oeuvre. The delicate colour notes in the ice and the green tones at its melting edges are finely handled, as is the still and poetic atmosphere of approaching twilight, making this an outstanding canvas by this important Canadian Impressionist.
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CAD
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