AAM CGP CSGA CSPWC G7 OSA RCA
1885 - 1969
Canadian
Undergrowth in the Pine Woods - Georgian Bay
oil on board
signed and dated 1950 and on verso signed, titled, dated on a label and inscribed "21"
12 x 16 in, 30.5 x 40.6 cm
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CAD
Sold for: $26,325
Preview at: Heffel Vancouver
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Vancouver Island
LITERATURE
Dennis Reid, Canadian Jungle, The Later Work of Arthur Lismer, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985, page 46
In July of 1950, Arthur Lismer was back at his beloved Georgian Bay, and spent time at both Amanda Island and Manitou Dock. Lismer was interested not only in the dramatic vistas and turbulent elemental weather there, but also in life at ground level. Lismer noted that his fellow Group of Seven artists looked over the foreground into the distance, and now he chose to look at the earth at his feet, where everything originated. Twisting roots, rocks thrusting their way to the surface, random fallen forest debris and plucky small plants surviving in the stoney ground were the raw material of his forest floor still lifes. Art historian Dennis Reid feels that the paintings Lismer produced during the summer of 1950 at both Cape Breton Island and Georgian Bay were vital and exciting, exhibiting “the outrageous hedonism of their sensuous materiality”. In Undergrowth in the Pine Woods - Georgian Bay, Lismer revels in the pure joy of the painterly experience, scumbling and incising his paint, depicting golden leaves cavorting amongst the stolid rocks of the Canadian Shield with vital, expressionist brush-strokes.
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CAD
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