ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
1885 - 1970
Canadian
Mountain Sketch LXX
oil on board, circa 1928
on verso signed, titled, inscribed with the Doris Mills Inventory #7/70 and stamped Dominion Gallery
12 x 15 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm
Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD
Sold for: $391,250
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PROVENANCE
Stevens Art Gallery, Montreal, January 14, 1947
Estate of Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Montreal
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 26, 2010, lot 132
Steve Martin, Los Angeles, California
Sold sale of Canadian, Impressionist & Modern Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 20, 2019, lot 117
Private Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Lawren Harris to Emily Carr, June 1930, in Emily Carr Correspondence, January 1928 - December 1932, MG 30 D215, National Archives of Canada
Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, Rocky Mountain Sketches, Group 7, catalogue #70, listed, location noted as the Studio Building, a drawing of this work illustrated by Hans Jensen page 40
Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Personal Art Collection Catalogue, reproduced, unpaginated, catalogue #R4
Bess Harris and R.G.P. Colgrove, editors, Lawren Harris, 1969, pages 91 and 109
Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, 2011, a similar sketch of the same scene, entitled Rocky Mountain Sketch, reproduced page 306
Cynthia Burlingham et al., The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, Art Gallery of Ontario and Hammer Museum, 2015, essay by Steve Martin, pages 17 and 18
EXHIBITED
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
For full cataloguing, essay and images in PDF format, please click here.
Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD
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