AAM RCA
1866 - 1934
Canadian
Sun on the Hills, Piedmont
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled and certified by Cullen Inventory #1035
24 1/2 x 32 1/4 in, 62.2 x 81.9 cm
Estimate: $90,000 - $120,000 CAD
Sold for: $99,450
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Mr. Connor, Ottawa
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
By descent to a Private Collection, Montreal
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 23, 2007, lot 45
Private Collection, Toronto
LITERATURE
Sylvia Antoniou, Maurice Cullen, 1866 – 1934, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1982, page 45
Piedmont is a small municipality located in the Laurentian Mountains northwest of Montreal. Maurice Cullen had a passion for the Laurentians, visiting often, and by 1922 had built a small cabin at Lac Tremblant on the Cache River. William Watson, Cullen’s well-known Montreal dealer, created a demand amongst collectors for these Laurentian landscapes, and Cullen concentrated on these themes after 1923. Cullen often painted out-of-doors, and Watson wrote that “Cullen has never been a drawing-room painter of the snow, but tramping out in wintry weather, he met his landscapes zestfully face to face. For every finished picture there is the original out-door sketch, and even on occasion he would take an entire canvas with him to complete out-of-doors on the spot.” Cullen often focused on the dramatic effects of light in the sky reflected in a river, such as in this fine painting which captures an evanescent moment in nature.
Estimate: $90,000 - $120,000 CAD
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