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Current bid: $32,500 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

1765 29-Nov-2014 08:47:22 AM $32,500

25632 22-Nov-2014 08:35:52 AM $30,000

The bidding history list updated on: Friday, March 29, 2024 03:04:10

LOT 209

ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA
1882 - 1974
Canadian

Autumn, Lake Superior
oil on board
signed and on verso titled and dated 1922 on the Galerie Walter Klinkhoff label
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in, 21.3 x 26.7 cm

Estimate: $35,000 - $45,000 CAD

Sold for: $38,350

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Sold sale of Sotheby's Canada in association with Ritchie's, November 20, 2006, lot #73
Private Collection, Ontario

LITERATURE
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, page 46


Fall of 1921 was A.Y. Jackson's first sight of Lake Superior, when he and Lawren Harris continued on to this location after a Group of Seven trip to Algoma. While Harris found inspiration in the lake's vast water views, Jackson was drawn to its shores with their rugged hills and twisting trees. Jackson returned to the area in fall of 1922, and Autumn, Lake Superior is an outstanding example of what drew him while there - solid rock formations are the prime focus, with the lake view behind serving to highlight their strength.

In his autobiography, Jackson wrote of Lake Superior, "I know of no more impressive scenery in Canada for the landscape painter." He extolled the beauty of the country around the lake, stating, "Inland there are intimate little lakes, stretches of muskeg, outcrops of rock...In the autumn the whole country glows with colour; the huckleberry and the pincherry turn crimson, the mountain ash is loaded with red berries, the poplar and the birch turn yellow..." Jackson shows great awareness of patterning in the patches of snow lying in the hollows of the rocks, the dark strips of bark on the bare trees and the fall colours glowing in the ground level vegetation. With its fresh clarity of atmosphere, rich autumn palette and assured brush-strokes, Autumn Lake Superior is a classic Group period work by Jackson.


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