Vendu pour : 93 600 $

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Joan Murray, A.J. Casson, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1978, unpaginated

A.J. Casson stated, “If I have to define my own contribution to the Canadian art scene, what was particularly mine were really the rural villages and houses. In a way it is a record of a disappearing society and a disappearing world...For me it was always an Ontario quest.” Casson was steeped in the atmosphere of Ontario villages and towns starting from his childhood in Guelph, and from his first sketching trips to Lake Rosseau and Lake Nipissing, until he fully claimed this subject while with the Group of Seven. Casson used various styles, not wishing to define or label his work – his style was in service of “crystallizing the mood” of his subjects. The Village of Madawaska is stunning because of its contrasts, starting with the geometric, flattened style of the village buildings sharply differentiated against the softly rendered rounded hills with their forested slopes. Dark storm clouds are pitched against blue sky breaking through behind the hills, and impending weather hovers over the serene village. Full of drama and atmosphere, this is a quintessential Casson image.

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