Early Autumn
91.4 cms x 121.9 cms (36 ins x 48 ins)
Signed and dated 1951
made in 1951
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Fine Canadian Art Fall 2005 Live auction" held on Thu, Nov 24, 2005.
Lot 155
Lot 155
Estimate: CAD $15,000 - $20,000
Realised: CAD $43,125
Realised: CAD $43,125
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
The Reader's Digest Collection
Exhibitions:
Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, September 30, 1995 - January 30, 1996
Literature:
Jules Bazin, Cosgrove, 1980, page 14
Notes:
Cosgrove studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, then spent two years studying drawing with Edwin Holgate at the Art Association in Montreal. With a Quebec provincial study scholarship secured, he departed for New York where he saw the work of important European artists. Cosgrove then traveled to Mexico where he worked with Mexican fresco painter José Clemente Orozco. After four years in Mexico he returned to Canada in 1944, and later taught fresco painting at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal. Certainly some of Cosgrove's technique arises from fresco, in the glowing, powdery quality of his paint surface.
Cosgrove painted a series of large landscapes in the 1940s and 1950s, and is particularly known for his tree compositions. Cosgrove stated that he did "not paint trees but verticals and horizontals on a forest background", and certainly in Early Autumn vertical tree trunks are the dominant element. In the realm of colour he was more interested in subtle tonal values, as can be seen in the soft greens, creams and sand tones around the tree~forms in this evocative painting.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
The Reader's Digest Collection
Exhibitions:
Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, September 30, 1995 - January 30, 1996
Literature:
Jules Bazin, Cosgrove, 1980, page 14
Notes:
Cosgrove studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, then spent two years studying drawing with Edwin Holgate at the Art Association in Montreal. With a Quebec provincial study scholarship secured, he departed for New York where he saw the work of important European artists. Cosgrove then traveled to Mexico where he worked with Mexican fresco painter José Clemente Orozco. After four years in Mexico he returned to Canada in 1944, and later taught fresco painting at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal. Certainly some of Cosgrove's technique arises from fresco, in the glowing, powdery quality of his paint surface.
Cosgrove painted a series of large landscapes in the 1940s and 1950s, and is particularly known for his tree compositions. Cosgrove stated that he did "not paint trees but verticals and horizontals on a forest background", and certainly in Early Autumn vertical tree trunks are the dominant element. In the realm of colour he was more interested in subtle tonal values, as can be seen in the soft greens, creams and sand tones around the tree~forms in this evocative painting.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
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