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LOT 118

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

House in the Ward, Winter, City Painting No. 1
oil on canvas, circa 1924
signed and on verso titled Street Scene, Winter on the Laing Galleries label
32 x 38 3/8 in, 81.3 x 97.5 cm

Estimate: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 CAD

Sold for: $2,521,250

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Volkswagen Canada, acquired from the above in 1957
Private Collection, Switzerland
Important Canadian Art, Sotheby’s, May 11, 1994, lot 102
A Prestigious Corporate Collection, Canada

LITERATURE
Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, City Paintings, catalogue #1, location noted as the Art Gallery of Toronto, and a drawing of the painting illustrated by Hans Jensen in the section titled Large Pictures
Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906 - 1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, page 25
Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, 2011, reproduced page 105, titled as House in the Ward, City Painting No. 1, dated as circa 1918, listed page 401, and the sketch for this work entitled "Houses" Group XXXIII dated as circa 1918 (sold by Heffel November 24, 2005, lot 78), reproduced page 104, listed page 401


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Estimate: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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