Vendu pour : 35 100 $

PROVENANCE
A gift from the Artist to a Private Collection, Windsor, 1930
By descent to the present Private Collection, Oshawa

This delightful J.E.H. MacDonald oil painting depicts a farm scene, something we do not often see in his subjects. MacDonald’s palette here is quite spare - he has used only a few colours to depict the scene, as was his practice when sketching out-of-doors. Particularly fine is his choice of a deep cobalt blue, which has been applied first to depict the trees, shrubs and some lines of the buildings in the village. The age-induced burnt orange colour of the supporting board, which shows through in places between the lively, quickly applied strokes of paint, is a lovely contrast to the cobalt blue. In the sky, billowing clouds tower and are echoed in their shape by the plume-like trees, which serve, along with the buildings, to both break up and contrast with the linear treatment of the earth. The movement of the brushwork in the portion of the painting where the sky meets the distant band of trees is characteristically MacDonald, and reminds us nicely of the presence of his hand in this work.

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