Mrs. Decco (1940)
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art" held on Wed, Jun 9, 2021.
Lot 37182
Lot 37182
Estimate: CAD $40,000 - $60,000
Realised: CAD $90,000
Realised: CAD $90,000
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Mrs. A.R.G. Heward, Montreal
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Private Collection, British Columbia
Exhibitions:
Contemporary Arts Society Art of our Day in Canada, Art Association of Montreal, November 22 - December 15, 1940 as "Mrs. Decco"
Memorial Exhibition Prudence Heward 1896-1947, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, March 4-29, 1948 (also shown at Toronto, Montreal, London, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Brandon, Windsor), no. 12 as "Italian Woman"
Literature:
E.R. Hunter, "Beauty Not Stressed at Annual Exhibit," Gazette (Montreal), November 23, 1940
Robert Ayre, "Exhibition of 'Art Of Our Day' By Contemporary Arts Society Found Haunting and Significant," The Standard, Montreal, November 30, 1940
Natalie Luckyj, Expressions of Will: The Art of Prudence Heward, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, 1986, pages 49 and 122-23
A.K. Prakash, "Efa Prudence Heward (1896-1947) Un grand nom de l'expressionisme figurative" and "Efa Prudence Heward (1896-1947) Master of Representational Expressionism," Magazinart, 15:3 (Spring, 2003) reproduced on cover and page 44 as "Italian Woman" c. 1930
Julia Skelly, Prudence Heward Life and Work [online publication], Art Canada Institute, Toronto, 2015 page 54, reproduced as "Italian Woman" c. 1930
Notes:
Born in Montreal. Quebec, she became interested in art early in her life. She attended classes at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner with fellow students, Edwin Holgate, Sarah Robertson, Anne Savage, Kathleen Morris, Lilias Torrance Newton and Emily Coonan. Miss Heward also worked for two summers under Maurice Cullen, sketching at Phillipsburg and Carillon. During the First World War, she and her mother worked with the Red Cross in London, England (her brothers also served overseas with the army). Following the war she continued her studies in Montreal under Randolph Hewton who, as A.Y. Jackson related, "...did much to increase her interest in understanding of the modern school." She then studied in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and returned to Montreal where in 1920 she joined a group of artists who had secured rooms on Beaver Hall Hill.
Estate of the artist
Mrs. A.R.G. Heward, Montreal
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Private Collection, British Columbia
Exhibitions:
Contemporary Arts Society Art of our Day in Canada, Art Association of Montreal, November 22 - December 15, 1940 as "Mrs. Decco"
Memorial Exhibition Prudence Heward 1896-1947, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, March 4-29, 1948 (also shown at Toronto, Montreal, London, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Brandon, Windsor), no. 12 as "Italian Woman"
Literature:
E.R. Hunter, "Beauty Not Stressed at Annual Exhibit," Gazette (Montreal), November 23, 1940
Robert Ayre, "Exhibition of 'Art Of Our Day' By Contemporary Arts Society Found Haunting and Significant," The Standard, Montreal, November 30, 1940
Natalie Luckyj, Expressions of Will: The Art of Prudence Heward, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, 1986, pages 49 and 122-23
A.K. Prakash, "Efa Prudence Heward (1896-1947) Un grand nom de l'expressionisme figurative" and "Efa Prudence Heward (1896-1947) Master of Representational Expressionism," Magazinart, 15:3 (Spring, 2003) reproduced on cover and page 44 as "Italian Woman" c. 1930
Julia Skelly, Prudence Heward Life and Work [online publication], Art Canada Institute, Toronto, 2015 page 54, reproduced as "Italian Woman" c. 1930
Notes:
Born in Montreal. Quebec, she became interested in art early in her life. She attended classes at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner with fellow students, Edwin Holgate, Sarah Robertson, Anne Savage, Kathleen Morris, Lilias Torrance Newton and Emily Coonan. Miss Heward also worked for two summers under Maurice Cullen, sketching at Phillipsburg and Carillon. During the First World War, she and her mother worked with the Red Cross in London, England (her brothers also served overseas with the army). Following the war she continued her studies in Montreal under Randolph Hewton who, as A.Y. Jackson related, "...did much to increase her interest in understanding of the modern school." She then studied in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and returned to Montreal where in 1920 she joined a group of artists who had secured rooms on Beaver Hall Hill.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.
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