![Mary Ritter Hamilton (1873-1954) - Market Scene, Giverney [sic]](/assets/detail/7/37/e4k7B9Ym.jpg)
Market Scene, Giverney [sic]
38.1 cms x 45.7 cms (15 ins x 18 ins)
Signed and inscribed lower left "Mary Hamilton, Paris"; titled and dated "'07" by the artist on the reverse
Lot offered for sale by Sothebys, Toronto at the auction event "Important Canadian Art" held on Tue, Nov 23, 2010.
Lot 56
Lot 56
Estimate: CAD $20,000 - $25,000
Realised: CAD $88,750
Realised: CAD $88,750
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibitions:
"Catalogue of Paintings by Mrs. Mary Riter Hamilton," Townsend's Galleries, Toronto, November, 1911, no. 9, travelling to Wilson Gallery, Ottawa, 1912 and Art Association of Montreal, 1912
Literature:
A.K. Prakash, "Independent Spirit, Early Canadian Women Artists," Richmond Hill, 2008, p. 132, illusrated in colour, p. 133
Notes:
Mary Riter Hamilton was born in Ontario, raised in Manitoba and, early in the twentieth century, went abroad to study art in Berlin and later Paris, where she was to exhibit in the annual Salon shows.
Her early paintings were more academic and classical in nature, but after exposure to the fomenting European art scene, they became more attuned to the tenets of Impressionism. Using vigorous brushwork, she took a 'plein air' approach in her art, painting directly from her subject. It is that immediacy which is one of the most appealing features of her work.
This fine, rare painting was done in Giverny, located about eighty kilometres west of Paris and home of the famous artist Claude Monet and his spectacular garden and lily pond. The town was also the location of a colony of artists from North America at the turn of the twentieth century.
A.K. Prakash comments on this work:
Market Scene, Giverny "is a brilliant example of Hamilton's understanding of Impressionism. Painting outdoors, she overlaid the forms with the vibration of light. To achieve vibration, she used broken brushwork like that of Claude Monet. The subject is framed in an abrupt compositional format suggestive of the paintings by Camille Pissarro of peasant women at work. The central importance of the figures is heightened by the deliberate modelling of solid forms that delinieate them from the abstract design of the background. Natural light accentuates the spontaneity with which Hamilton speckled the figures, a characteristic that aligned her with the development of modernism in Canadian Art."
Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibitions:
"Catalogue of Paintings by Mrs. Mary Riter Hamilton," Townsend's Galleries, Toronto, November, 1911, no. 9, travelling to Wilson Gallery, Ottawa, 1912 and Art Association of Montreal, 1912
Literature:
A.K. Prakash, "Independent Spirit, Early Canadian Women Artists," Richmond Hill, 2008, p. 132, illusrated in colour, p. 133
Notes:
Mary Riter Hamilton was born in Ontario, raised in Manitoba and, early in the twentieth century, went abroad to study art in Berlin and later Paris, where she was to exhibit in the annual Salon shows.
Her early paintings were more academic and classical in nature, but after exposure to the fomenting European art scene, they became more attuned to the tenets of Impressionism. Using vigorous brushwork, she took a 'plein air' approach in her art, painting directly from her subject. It is that immediacy which is one of the most appealing features of her work.
This fine, rare painting was done in Giverny, located about eighty kilometres west of Paris and home of the famous artist Claude Monet and his spectacular garden and lily pond. The town was also the location of a colony of artists from North America at the turn of the twentieth century.
A.K. Prakash comments on this work:
Market Scene, Giverny "is a brilliant example of Hamilton's understanding of Impressionism. Painting outdoors, she overlaid the forms with the vibration of light. To achieve vibration, she used broken brushwork like that of Claude Monet. The subject is framed in an abrupt compositional format suggestive of the paintings by Camille Pissarro of peasant women at work. The central importance of the figures is heightened by the deliberate modelling of solid forms that delinieate them from the abstract design of the background. Natural light accentuates the spontaneity with which Hamilton speckled the figures, a characteristic that aligned her with the development of modernism in Canadian Art."
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
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