Tea Time
39.4 cms x 29.2 cms (15.5 ins x 11.5 ins)
Signed and dated 1901 centre left, signed and dated 1901 upper right
made in 1901
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 42543
Lot 42543
Estimate: CAD $12,000 - $15,000
Realised: CAD $90,000
Realised: CAD $90,000
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
A.K. Prakash & Associates, Inc., Toronto
Acquired by the present Private Collection, May 2011
Exhibitions:
"Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 1880‒1930", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; travelling to Kunsthalle der Hypo‒Kulturstiftung, Munich; Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 19 July 2019‒3 July 2021, no. 64
Literature:
Jim Burant and Robert Stacey, "North by South: The Art of Peleg Franklin Brownell, 1857-1946", Ottawa Art Gallery, 1998, pages 29, 73, 82-84
Katerina Atanassova, "Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 1880‒1930", Ottawa, 2019, no. 64, reproduced page 188 as "Tea Time"
Notes:
Peleg Franklin Brownell was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in July 1857, and studied at the Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, before going to Paris to study at the Academie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury, Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Leon Bonnat. He remained in Paris until at least 1883, and then he returned to the United States, living first in New Bedford, and then in New York. He had met Canadian artist Willliam Brymner in Paris in 1881, before Brymner returned to Canada to become the principal of the Ottawa Art School. After both Brymner and his successor as the school’s principal, Charles Moss, moved elsewhere, Brownell was hired as the Ottawa Art School’s third principal in 1887, remaining in the position until the school’s closure in 1899. From 1900 until the school was revived in the early 1920s, he taught under the auspices of the Woman's Art Association of Ottawa. He finally retired from teaching in 1937, having taught many well-known and lesser well-known Canadian artists, including Frank Hennessey, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, and Henri Masson.
A.K. Prakash & Associates, Inc., Toronto
Acquired by the present Private Collection, May 2011
Exhibitions:
"Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 1880‒1930", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; travelling to Kunsthalle der Hypo‒Kulturstiftung, Munich; Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 19 July 2019‒3 July 2021, no. 64
Literature:
Jim Burant and Robert Stacey, "North by South: The Art of Peleg Franklin Brownell, 1857-1946", Ottawa Art Gallery, 1998, pages 29, 73, 82-84
Katerina Atanassova, "Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 1880‒1930", Ottawa, 2019, no. 64, reproduced page 188 as "Tea Time"
Notes:
Peleg Franklin Brownell was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in July 1857, and studied at the Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, before going to Paris to study at the Academie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury, Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Leon Bonnat. He remained in Paris until at least 1883, and then he returned to the United States, living first in New Bedford, and then in New York. He had met Canadian artist Willliam Brymner in Paris in 1881, before Brymner returned to Canada to become the principal of the Ottawa Art School. After both Brymner and his successor as the school’s principal, Charles Moss, moved elsewhere, Brownell was hired as the Ottawa Art School’s third principal in 1887, remaining in the position until the school’s closure in 1899. From 1900 until the school was revived in the early 1920s, he taught under the auspices of the Woman's Art Association of Ottawa. He finally retired from teaching in 1937, having taught many well-known and lesser well-known Canadian artists, including Frank Hennessey, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, and Henri Masson.
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.