LOT 257

ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA
1882 - 1974
Canadian

Eskimo Summer Camp, Pangnirtung
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled, dated 1930 and inscribed "$325.00" and "6325"
21 x 26 1/4 in, 53.3 x 66.7 cm

Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD

Sold for: $531,000

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
John A. MacAulay, Winnipeg
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art Inc., Vancouver
Peter and Joanne Brown Collection, Vancouver, acquired from the above in 1986
Sold Sale of Heffel Fine Art Auction House, The Peter & Joanne Brown Collection, November 23, 2016, lot #257

LITERATURE
The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, Toronto, 1925, pages 97 - 113
Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson: Thirty Years of Painting, Dominion Gallery, 1946, reproduced page 6
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, pages 120, 132 and 133
Peter Mellen, The Group of Seven, 1970, a similar 1930 oil on canvas entitited Summer, Pangnirtung, collection of Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern, reproduced page 178
Roger Boulet, The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven, 1982, a similar 1930 oil on canvas entitled Summer, Pangnirtung, in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, reproduced page 125
Michael Bliss, Banting: A Biography, 1992, pages 170 and 174
Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, 1995, page 51

EXHIBITED
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, A.Y. Jackson: Thirty Years of Painting, May 4 - 18, 1946, catalogue #16
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Paintings from the Collection of John A. MacAulay, QC, 1954, catalogue #38


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Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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