ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA
1882 - 1974
Canadian
A Quebec Village (Winter, Saint-Fidèle)
oil on canvas
signed and on verso signed, titled, dated 1930 and inscribed “3”
25 x 32 1/4 in, 63.5 x 81.9 cm
Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000 CAD
Sold for: $721,250
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Baron Byng High School, Montreal, 1930
PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation
Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 15, 2013, lot 117
Private Collection, British Columbia
LITERATURE
Exhibition of Seascapes and Water-Fronts by Contemporary Artists and an Exhibition of the Group of Seven, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1931, titled as St. Fidèle, Quebec, listed page 6
A.Y. Jackson to Marius Barbeau, “Canvases Painted by A.Y. Jackson,” June 27, 1933, Marius Barbeau fonds, Correspondence, Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, pages 63 and 64
Walter Klinkhoff, A.Y. Jackson Retrospective Exhibition, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., 1990, reproduced front cover and listed, unpaginated
Pierre B. Landry, editor, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Art, Volume Two / G – K, 1994, similar subjects: a 1926 graphite study of the church at Saint-Fidèle titled Saint-Fidèle, Quebec reproduced page 199, a 1926 canvas of Saint-Fidèle village with the church titled Winter, Quebec reproduced page 199, and a 1926 graphite study titled Church at Saint-Fidèle reproduced page 200
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition of Seascapes and Water-Fronts by Contemporary Artists and an Exhibition of the Group of Seven, December 4 – 24, 1931, catalogue #96
Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, February 18 – October 29, 1939
Literature continued
Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, National Gallery of Canada, 1995, titled as Saint-Fidèle, reproduced page 279, figure 248, and listed page 336
David P. Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, 2003, titled as St. Fidèle, reproduced page 196
Wayne Larsen, A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter, 2009, titled as St. Fidèle, reproduced page 145
Roger Boulet, A Legacy of Canadian Art from Kelowna Collections, Kelowna Art Gallery, 2017, reproduced page 45
Exhibited continued
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, A.Y. Jackson Retrospective Exhibition, September 10 – 22, 1990, catalogue #13
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, October 13 – December 31, 1995, traveling in 1996 to the Vancouver Art Gallery and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, catalogue #170
Kelowna Art Gallery, A Legacy of Canadian Art from Kelowna Collections, July 1 – October 15, 2017
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Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000 CAD
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