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LOT 135

CGP CSPWC G7 OC POSA PRCA
1898 - 1992
Canadien

Little Country Church
huile sur toile
signé et au verso signé, titré, daté et étampé
24 x 30 po, 61 x 76.2 cm

Estimation : 100 000 $ - 150 000 $ CAD

Exposition à : Heffel Vancouver

PROVENANCE
Kastel Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection


A.J. Casson’s works in oil are painted very thinly and often have the look and feel of watercolours. He was master of that medium, having learned under the high standards of Franklin Carmichael, with whom he had worked as a commercial artist at both Rous & Mann Ltd. and Sampson Matthews Limited. Casson translated his skill with transparent watercolour paint to his flattened, design-driven oils that often have a stage-like sense of drama to them. In works such as Little Country Church, the largely two-dimensional space relies on Casson’s exceedingly refined sense of colour and composition. The trees sit at just the right differing angles to counterbalance the straight lines of the church’s architecture, and their leafy boughs give the work a sense of rhythmic repeating pattern. Casson casts a soft light on everything, rendered with thin washes and layered with subtle blends of several closely related but distinct colours. This pale, misty light and the harmonious green seem to clothe the whole scene in a peaceful, cool tranquility.


Estimation : 100 000 $ - 150 000 $ CAD

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