Vendu pour : 79 250 $

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Private Collection, Ontario
Sold Sale of Fine Canadain Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 24, 2017, lot 109

Edwin Holgate was an important part of the early art scene in Montreal: he was a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group and was involved with the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Montreal Arts Club, and the Pen and Pencil Club. In 1929, he became the eighth member of the Group of Seven. Holgate’s passion for nature led to much exploration of the Quebec countryside, and in the 1920s he built a studio cabin in the Laurentians at Lake Tremblant. The subject of this superlative painting is Pic de l’Ours (Bear Peak), near the village of Magog in Mont-Orford National Park, southeast of Montreal. The motif of the screen of trees through which we view this glowing landscape is a classic Group approach. The milky greens of the lake and sky together with the cool and misty blues of the mountain create a transcendent atmosphere that invites tranquil contemplation.

The inscription on verso suggests that this painting may have been in the November 3 – 10, 1937 exhibition at W. Scott & Sons gallery in Montreal entitled Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Wood Engravings by Edwin H. Holgate.

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