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LOT 129

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

Arctic Sketch XV
oil on board, 1930
on verso titled partially on the remnants of the artist's label and inscribed in graphite "N. Lyle" and with the Doris Mills Inventory #1/15
12 x 15 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm

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

Sold for: $2,041,250

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

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

LITERATURE
Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, Arctic Sketches, Group 1, catalogue #15, 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 work entitled Bylot Island I, private collection, reproduced page 201
Christopher Jackson, Lawren Harris: North by West: The Arctic and Rocky Mountain Paintings of Lawren Harris, 1924 - 1931, 1991, a similar work entitled South Shore, Bylot Island, private collection, reproduced page 55, plate 13
Peter Larisey, Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life - An Interpretation, 1993, a similar work entitled Bylot Island I, private collection, reproduced plate 33


For full cataloguing, essay and images in PDF format, please click here.

For the biography on Norah Lyle in PDF format, please click here.


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

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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