Vendu pour : 43 875 $

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Montreal

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Roger Burford Mason, A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston, 1998, page 63

Franz Johnston’s superb ability to handle light on snow was well known, and after he left the Group of Seven in 1924, his winter sketching trips to northern Ontario became legendary. As Roger Burford Mason writes, “Perhaps the thrill of danger and isolation were an integral and necessary part of Johnston’s heady experience of painting in the northland; numerous stories circulated in the press and among Toronto’s artistic community of his being lost in snow, or in impenetrable bush, or being snowed in with diminishing supplies.” Such romanticism was part of the bold outdoors adventuring that the Group made famous in their wilderness trips. Snow Laden, Northern Ontario features an extraordinary contrast in lighting on snow in which the shadowed bluish foreground is backlit by trees flooded with the golden rays of a winter sun. The turquoise sky heightens this exquisite contrast. Lacy patterns of branches and Johnston’s fine handling of texture and shadows in the luminous snow contribute to the beauty of this stunning winter work.

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