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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection

In about 1910, Quebec artist Marc~Aurèle Fortin left Montreal for extended travels in western Canada, specifically Edmonton, and then went on into the United States, where he studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and in New York and Boston, returning to Montreal in 1914. He also traveled to France and England in 1922. During the course of these travels, Fortin saw a wide range of art, which influenced his own production. However, his love for his home city did not change, and views of Montreal are a core subject in his work from the early days of his career through to his later years when he worked in a fauvist style. Fortin was known for his artistic courage and interest in experimenting with his art. Vue de Montréal du Mont~Royal is quite loose and freely handled for a watercolour of 1928, and would have been considered stylistically modern, with the vertical trees on either side of the view acting as curtains of a sort, framing the scene in a pleasing manner, as if it has just been opened up for us too see.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist’s work, #A~0563.

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