Sold for: $28,125

PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
Important Canadian Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours, Books and Prints, Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd., Toronto, October 30 - 31, 1978, lot 95
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton
By descent to the present Private Collection, British Columbia

LITERATURE
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, page 61
Naomi Jackson Groves, A.Y.’s Canada, 1968, page 42

The pastoral landscape of rural Quebec was a beloved subject of A.Y. Jackson throughout his career. Speaking to the profound influence of his Quebec works, Naomi Jackson Groves notes, “More than any other single Canadian artist during the quarter-century from 1920 on, it has been A.Y. Jackson who has created the image of rural winter-time Quebec.” Jackson revered the timeless ease of village life and lamented its impending loss to the frenetic pace of the modern city. While he often painted the Charlevoix area, this charming scene showcases the bucolic expanse of the Gatineau region, where Jackson had sketched with Maurice Haycock and Ralph Burton. After leaving the Studio Building in Toronto in 1955, Jackson would settle in Manotick, Ontario, where the “rocky hills rising out of the farmlands, rivers, lakes and old settlements” of the Gatineau, just across the Quebec border, were within reach. In this sketch, Jackson evokes the quintessential motifs and rhythmic forms of his renowned Quebec village paintings: the quiet houses nestled in the sloping hillside, a lone horse-drawn sleigh journeying along the country road, and the soft, curving banks of midwinter snow.

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