Vendu pour : 17 550 $

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

Jock Macdonald was known for both landscape and abstract imagery in his work. He was an important pioneer in abstraction beginning in the 1930s and, after moving to Toronto, became a member of the modernist group Painters Eleven in 1953. However, landscape was also strong in his oeuvre and, when in British Columbia, he immersed himself in its stunning vistas ranging from Garibaldi to the Okanagan. It was there he spent the summer of 1944 sketching. Group of Seven member Lawren Harris moved to Vancouver in 1940 and introduced Macdonald to the writings of Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky (the author of books such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and painted with him in the Rockies in 1941. Okanagan Lake, Sunset is a striking work, reminiscent of Harris’s work at Lake Superior with its sculpted clouds, its glowing sky with streaming light rays and its spiritualized atmosphere. By 1945 and 1946, Macdonald was already experimenting with automatism, but paintings like Okanagan Lake, Sunset show that he had an equal passion for depicting the beauty and spirituality of nature.

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