Ice Harvest, Quebec, 1935
63.5 cms x 91.4 cms (25 ins x 36 ins)
Signed lower right; Lucile Rodier Gagnon Inventory no. 190
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)" held on Wed, Dec 6, 2023.
Lot 44290
Lot 44290
Estimate: CAD $400,000 - $600,000
Realised: CAD $984,000
Realised: CAD $984,000
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Miss Helen Norton, Ayer’s Cliff
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
W. Allen Manford
Acquired by the present Private Collection, September 1988
Exhibitions:
"Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Paintings: Palace of Fine Arts," Arranged on Behalf of the Carnegie Corporation of New York for Circulation in the Southern Dominions of the British Empire, Johannesburg, South Africa; travelling to major cities in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, September 1936‒April 1939, no. 25
"Sixtieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts," Art Association of Montreal, 16 November‒16 December 1939, no. 75 Exhibition of Maple Leaf Fund Inc., Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 6‒18 April 1942, no. 261
"Memorial Exhibition of the work of Clarence Gagnon, R.C.A. and J.W. Beatty, R.C.A., O.S.A.", Art Gallery of Toronto, October‒November 1942, no. 47
"Memorial Exhibition Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942," Musée de la province de Québec, Quebec City, no. 37; travelling to Art Association of Montreal, no. 37; Art Gallery of Toronto, no. 47; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, no. 41, 16 June 1942‒January 1943
"Clarence Gagnon, 1881‒1942: Dreaming the Landscape", Musée national des beaux‒arts du Québec, Quebec City; travelling to National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 7 June 2006‒19 August 2007, no. 166
"Masterpieces of Canadian Impressionism, Retrospective Exhibition", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 8‒22 November 2014, no. 19
"Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven", Vancouver Art Gallery; travelling to the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Gallery of Hamilton, 30 October 2015‒25 September 2016
"Highlights from ‘Embracing Canada’", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 22 October‒5 November 2016, no. 20
Literature:
"Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Paintings for Circulation in the Southern Dominions of the British Empire", Ottawa, 1936, unpaginated, reproduce
Duncan Campbell Scott, ‘Clarence A. Gagnon. Recollection and Record’, "Maritime Art," Halifax, Vol. 3, no. 1 (October‒November 1942), reproduced page 9
"Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Clarence Gagnon, R.C.A. and J. W. Beatty, R.C.A., O.S.A.", Toronto, 1942, no. 47
"Memorial Exhibition of Paintings, Sketches, Etchings, Etc. by Clarence Gagnon, R.C.A.," Montreal, 1942
"Memorial Exhibition Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942", Ottawa, 1942, no. 37, no. 47 and no. 41, unpaginated, reproduced
Hugues De Jouvancourt, "Clarence Gagnon", Montreal, 1970, reproduced page 126
Guy Boulizon, "Le paysage dans la peinture au Québec, vu par les peintres des cent dernières années," Quebec, 1984, reproduced page 26
Joan Murray, "Home Truths", Toronto, 1997, plate 32, reproduced page 55
"Canada Year Book 1999, Statistic Canada", 1999, reproduced page 227
Hélène Sicotte, Michèle Grandbois, "Clarence Gagnon, 1881‒1942, Dreaming the Landscape", Québec, 2006, reproduced page 203 and page 363
A.K. Prakash, "Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery", Stuttgart, 2015, reproduced page 599
Ian Thom, et al., "Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven", Vancouver/London, 2015, reproduced page 164 Michèle Grandbois, ‘Cinq paysagistes au Québec, en quête de spiritualité et d’identité’ in "Chefs‒d’œuvre de l’exposition
Embracing Canada", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 2016, reproduced page 11
Notes:
Clarence Gagnon was born in Montreal, Quebec, his father of French origin and his mother of English. The Gagnon family moved to St. Rose where they lived for ten years, then returned to Montreal where Clarence received a commercial education at the Ecole du Plateau and artistic training at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner from 1897-1900. In the summer of 1899 he spent some time in Lower Quebec where he did paintings that won him prize money from the Art Association of Montreal. After two years at the Association he worked for William Maxwell, R.C.A., prominent architect and spent his summers at St. Joachim. At Maxwell’s home in 1902, Gagnon made his first drypoint etching no bigger than a visting card. Gagnon probably studied the engravings of Rembrandt as he once told Robert Pilot about the time he and another artist secured the loan of six small etched copper plates by the Dutch master with which they made several copies of each.
Miss Helen Norton, Ayer’s Cliff
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
W. Allen Manford
Acquired by the present Private Collection, September 1988
Exhibitions:
"Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Paintings: Palace of Fine Arts," Arranged on Behalf of the Carnegie Corporation of New York for Circulation in the Southern Dominions of the British Empire, Johannesburg, South Africa; travelling to major cities in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, September 1936‒April 1939, no. 25
"Sixtieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts," Art Association of Montreal, 16 November‒16 December 1939, no. 75 Exhibition of Maple Leaf Fund Inc., Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 6‒18 April 1942, no. 261
"Memorial Exhibition of the work of Clarence Gagnon, R.C.A. and J.W. Beatty, R.C.A., O.S.A.", Art Gallery of Toronto, October‒November 1942, no. 47
"Memorial Exhibition Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942," Musée de la province de Québec, Quebec City, no. 37; travelling to Art Association of Montreal, no. 37; Art Gallery of Toronto, no. 47; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, no. 41, 16 June 1942‒January 1943
"Clarence Gagnon, 1881‒1942: Dreaming the Landscape", Musée national des beaux‒arts du Québec, Quebec City; travelling to National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 7 June 2006‒19 August 2007, no. 166
"Masterpieces of Canadian Impressionism, Retrospective Exhibition", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 8‒22 November 2014, no. 19
"Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven", Vancouver Art Gallery; travelling to the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Gallery of Hamilton, 30 October 2015‒25 September 2016
"Highlights from ‘Embracing Canada’", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 22 October‒5 November 2016, no. 20
Literature:
"Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Paintings for Circulation in the Southern Dominions of the British Empire", Ottawa, 1936, unpaginated, reproduce
Duncan Campbell Scott, ‘Clarence A. Gagnon. Recollection and Record’, "Maritime Art," Halifax, Vol. 3, no. 1 (October‒November 1942), reproduced page 9
"Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Clarence Gagnon, R.C.A. and J. W. Beatty, R.C.A., O.S.A.", Toronto, 1942, no. 47
"Memorial Exhibition of Paintings, Sketches, Etchings, Etc. by Clarence Gagnon, R.C.A.," Montreal, 1942
"Memorial Exhibition Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942", Ottawa, 1942, no. 37, no. 47 and no. 41, unpaginated, reproduced
Hugues De Jouvancourt, "Clarence Gagnon", Montreal, 1970, reproduced page 126
Guy Boulizon, "Le paysage dans la peinture au Québec, vu par les peintres des cent dernières années," Quebec, 1984, reproduced page 26
Joan Murray, "Home Truths", Toronto, 1997, plate 32, reproduced page 55
"Canada Year Book 1999, Statistic Canada", 1999, reproduced page 227
Hélène Sicotte, Michèle Grandbois, "Clarence Gagnon, 1881‒1942, Dreaming the Landscape", Québec, 2006, reproduced page 203 and page 363
A.K. Prakash, "Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery", Stuttgart, 2015, reproduced page 599
Ian Thom, et al., "Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven", Vancouver/London, 2015, reproduced page 164 Michèle Grandbois, ‘Cinq paysagistes au Québec, en quête de spiritualité et d’identité’ in "Chefs‒d’œuvre de l’exposition
Embracing Canada", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 2016, reproduced page 11
Notes:
Clarence Gagnon was born in Montreal, Quebec, his father of French origin and his mother of English. The Gagnon family moved to St. Rose where they lived for ten years, then returned to Montreal where Clarence received a commercial education at the Ecole du Plateau and artistic training at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner from 1897-1900. In the summer of 1899 he spent some time in Lower Quebec where he did paintings that won him prize money from the Art Association of Montreal. After two years at the Association he worked for William Maxwell, R.C.A., prominent architect and spent his summers at St. Joachim. At Maxwell’s home in 1902, Gagnon made his first drypoint etching no bigger than a visting card. Gagnon probably studied the engravings of Rembrandt as he once told Robert Pilot about the time he and another artist secured the loan of six small etched copper plates by the Dutch master with which they made several copies of each.
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