ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
1885 - 1970
Canadien
Algoma Woods I
huile sur panneau
au verso signé, titré, daté et inscrit
10 3/8 x 13 1/2 po, 26.3 x 34.3 cm
Estimation : 125 000 $ - 175 000 $ CAD
Vendu pour : 212 400 $
Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton
PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, Algoma Sketches, Group 2, listed, catalogue #2/109, location noted as the Studio Building
James King, Inward Journey: The Life of Lawren Harris, 2012, page 104
Algoma was a place of replenishment for Lawren Harris. He was taken there by patron Dr. James MacCallum within a month of his discharge from the Canadian Army in May of 1918, and its wildness and beauty made a deep impression on him. Harris told fellow artist Fred Housser, “The Algoma country is charted on a grand scale, slashed by ravines and canyons through which run rivers, streams, and springs, broadening into lakes, churning lightly over shoaly places or dropping with roll and mist for hundreds of feet. Granite rocks rise to noble heights—their sides and tops solidly covered with hardwood, spruce and pine.” Here Harris has captured the variety of trees in the forest and the scene is filled with life and energy—a place of replenishment indeed. Harris’s brushwork is vigorous, and his delight in the scene is palpable through it. Of Algoma, he proclaimed to Group of Seven colleague J.E.H. MacDonald that one could abandon one’s self to “drinking its gorgeousness with your eyes.”
Estimation : 125 000 $ - 175 000 $ CAD
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