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LOT 128

ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
1885 - 1970
Canadian

From Berg Lake, Evening
oil on board
on verso signed twice, titled variously and inscribed "Six Sketches of Mount Robson, Mountain Sketch IX" and "25 Severn St." and with the Doris Mills Inventory #7/4
12 x 15 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm

Estimate: $700,000 - $900,000 CAD

Sold for: $1,561,250

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist, with the assistance of Lawren P. Harris, by Nora Lyle, Toronto, circa 1936
By descent to the present Private Collection, New York and Victoria

LITERATURE
Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, Rocky Mountain Sketches, Group 7, catalogue #4, location noted as the Studio Building, and a drawing of the painting illustrated by Hans Jensen
Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906 – 1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, a similar oil entitled Mount Robson from Berg Lake reproduced page 174
Lisa Christensen, A Hiker’s Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris, 2000, the circa 1924 – 1929 graphite drawing for this work entitled Mount Robson (accession #18712), collection of the National Gallery of Canada, reproduced page 33
Steve Martin, Cynthia Burlingham and Andrew Hunter, The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, 2015, a similar oil entitled Mount Robson from the Northeast, in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, reproduced page 109

EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario Society of Artists, Little Pictures, December 1930, catalogue #469
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, on loan from 2015


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Estimate: $700,000 - $900,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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