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PROVENANCE
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal

LITERATURE
Pearl McCarthy, “Art and Artists - Robert Pilot has Exhibit of Quality”, Globe & Mail, April 10, 1948

After teaching engraving at the École des beaux-arts, Robert Pilot entered the Canadian Army in 1941, serving with the Black Watch in the First Canadian Corps during World War II in England and Italy. After the war, he resumed his life as an artist. His first solo exhibition in Toronto was held in 1948 at Laing Galleries, and art critic Pearl McCarthy praised his “broad, joyous use of pigments”. Old House on the Outskirts of Terrebonne exhibits an exuberant, heightened sense of colour. As Pilot was often noted in his career for his delicate and poetic atmospheres, it is possible that the intense light and colour he experienced in Italy influenced his palette at the time this work was painted. This sun-washed summer scene is dominated by rich greens ranging from emerald to teal and brightened by splashes of red, cobalt and orange. A vibrant work by this important Canadian Impressionist, it captures the warmth and uniqueness of rural Quebec through the distinctive architecture of the stone house and the industrious activities of its inhabitants.

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