Girls Gathering Firewood, circa 1886
50.8 cms x 61 cms (20 ins x 24 ins)
Signed and inscribed "Halifax" lower left
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)" held on Thu, Jun 8, 2023.
Lot 42554
Lot 42554
Estimate: CAD $6,000 - $8,000
Realised: CAD $26,400
Realised: CAD $26,400
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection
Exhibitions:
"Reinvention: The Art and Life of H.M. Rosenberg", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, 2012
"Art canadien: L’enfant et son univers|Canadian Art: A Child’s World", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 28 October‒11 November 2017, no. 18
"Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 1880-1930", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; travelling to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne; Museé Fabre, Montpellier, 19 July 2013‒3 July 2021, no. 46
Literature:
Dougald John MacGillivray, ‘About Art in Halifax’, uncredited newspaper clipping, circa 1928, in Rosenberg Scrapbook at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Mora Dianne O’Neill, "Reinvention: the art and life of HM Rosenberg", Halifax, 2012, page 120
Gyrth Russell, ‘The Visit’, "Dalhousie Review 6" (1926) pages 370‒3
NSCA Scrapbook of clippings, ‘Nova Scotian Artist has made friends of ‘Greats’ in Travels’, "Halifax Daily Star", 13 March 1934, Nova Scotia Archives, MG 17 Vol 45
Katerina Atanassova, "Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons, 1880- 1930", Ottawa, 2019, no. 46, reproduced page 174
Private Collection
Exhibitions:
"Reinvention: The Art and Life of H.M. Rosenberg", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, 2012
"Art canadien: L’enfant et son univers|Canadian Art: A Child’s World", Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, 28 October‒11 November 2017, no. 18
"Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 1880-1930", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; travelling to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne; Museé Fabre, Montpellier, 19 July 2013‒3 July 2021, no. 46
Literature:
Dougald John MacGillivray, ‘About Art in Halifax’, uncredited newspaper clipping, circa 1928, in Rosenberg Scrapbook at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Mora Dianne O’Neill, "Reinvention: the art and life of HM Rosenberg", Halifax, 2012, page 120
Gyrth Russell, ‘The Visit’, "Dalhousie Review 6" (1926) pages 370‒3
NSCA Scrapbook of clippings, ‘Nova Scotian Artist has made friends of ‘Greats’ in Travels’, "Halifax Daily Star", 13 March 1934, Nova Scotia Archives, MG 17 Vol 45
Katerina Atanassova, "Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons, 1880- 1930", Ottawa, 2019, no. 46, reproduced page 174
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.