PROVENANCE
Collection of A.K. Prakash
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
Canadian Art, Hodgins Art Auctions, November 27, 2017, lot 74
Private Collection, Calgary

Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté is widely considered to be one of the most successful and accomplished artists of turn of the century Canada. Suzor-Coté had excelled at drawing in high school and began his career assisting with church paintings in his native Quebec, working with Joseph-Thomas Rousseau. Beginning in 1891, and continuing for two decades, Suzor-Coté split time between Canada and Europe. Studying and developing his artistic abilities in France, he took lessons in figure drawing at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and sketched en plein air in the French countryside. He additionally trained at Paris’ Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi. To hone his skills, Suzor Cote would study and replicate masterworks in Paris’ public galleries - such is the case with this painting “The Visit” (circa 1905) which is based on “Visiting Day in the Hospital” (1898) by Henri Jules Jean Geoffrey, in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. While today Suzor-Coté is most known for his impressionist renderings of Quebec’s Eastern Townships, “The Visit” undeniably demonstrates the artist’s masterful versatility. Painted with hyper realistic accuracy, the luminous and finely detailed canvas is a feat of stunning technical ability.

The skills and sensibility Suzor-Coté developed from his time in Europe distinguished him at home in Canada, where he was represented by William Scott and Son in Montreal and received commissions from then Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier. Suzor-Coté was made an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy, and numerous exhibitions of his work were held in his lifetime.

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