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LOT DETAILS
This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $12,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

26066 29-Nov-2014 12:00:50 PM $12,000

25456 29-Nov-2014 11:58:49 AM $11,000

26066 29-Nov-2014 11:44:26 AM $10,000

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 03:25:43

LOT 227

ARCA OSA
1836 - 1928
Canadian

Buffalo Grazing
oil on canvas on board
signed and dated 1908
16 x 24 in, 40.6 x 61 cm

Estimate: $12,000 - $15,000 CAD

Sold for: $14,160

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West, 1984, page 66


Frederick Verner began making trips to the West in 1862, first by laborious modes of transport such as carts, until 1870, when he was invited to travel on the newly completed Canadian Pacific Railway. Studio canvases such as this fine oil would have been produced from Verner’s many sketches done on the spot. Verner’s depiction of the buffalo was from an idealized, romantic point of view. These monarchs of the plains were a symbol of the raw vitality of the new world; the London Daily News described them as possessing a “singular and terrible beauty”. Verner painted them as noble beasts, free and in harmony with their surroundings, as here in Buffalo Grazing, which also exhibits Verner’s impressive skill with refined nuances of atmosphere and light. By 1879, the buffalo had been hunted almost to extinction, making Verner’s depictions of their existence poignant historical records.


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