LOT 221

ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
1885 - 1970
Canadian

Above Moraine Lake
oil on board, 1926
signed and on verso signed, titled and inscribed "Mountain Sketch" / "Not for Sale" / "Box 4" / "Bess Harris Collection 1950" / "BHC 72" / "Sentinel Pass III" and variously and "Mountain Sketch CII" on a label
12 x 15 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm

Estimate: $400,000 - $600,000 CAD

Sold for: $751,250

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PROVENANCE
Collection of Bess Harris
G. Blair Laing Ltd., Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Private Collection, Toronto
A.K. Prakash and Associates Inc., Toronto
The Collection of Torben V. Kristiansen, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern, National Gallery of Canada, 1927, listed page 13, Group of Rocky Mountain Sketches
Paul Duval, The McMichael Conservation Collection of Art, McMichael Conservation Collection, 1970, reproduced as Sentinel Pass, Above Moraine Lake, dated 1924, unpaginated

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern, December 2 - 31, 1927, traveling in 1928 to the Art Gallery of Toronto and Art Association o Montreal, Group of Rocky Mountain Sketches, catalogue #27


For full cataloguing, essay and images in PDF format, please click here.

For the biography on Torben V. Kristiansen in PDF format, please click here.


Estimate: $400,000 - $600,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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