Sold for: $46,800

PROVENANCE
The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 15, 2013, lot 124
Private Collection, British Columbia

Purchased at Heffel's Spring 2013 auction for $46,800 including Buyer's Premium
Estimate was $25,000 - $35,000

LITERATURE
Walter Klinkhoff, A.Y. Jackson Retrospective Exhibition, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., 1990, listed, unpaginated

EXHIBITED
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, A.Y. Jackson Retrospective Exhibition, September 10 - 22, 1990, catalogue #7

During A.Y. Jackson’s 1927 trip to the Arctic on the SS Beothic, he arrived at the end of July at the tiny settlement of Bache Post on Ellesmere Island, the most northern inhabited point in Canada. Three Inuit and four police were the whole population of this remote island, and the Beothic was dropping supplies there. The ship had to manoeuvre through the pack ice of Kane Basin to reach it, and due to ice could only anchor nearby. With the imminent threat of the ice closing in, Jackson and his painting companion Dr. Frederick Banting hurried ashore and set to sketching. They found a stark sculptural landscape of ice, shale and gravel, as revealed in this bold oil sketch. The strength of the landforms, the lofty perspective and the beauty of the delicate colour tints in the ice floes make this one of Jackson’s classic Group period sketches.

Jackson later painted a fine canvas based on sketches made of the Beothic at Ellesmere Island, which he presented to the Minister of the Interior, who later donated it to the National Gallery of Canada.

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