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LOT 133

OSA
1877 - 1917
Canadian

Moccasin Flower or Orchids, Algonquin Park
oil on board
stamped with the estate stamp and on verso dated spring 1916, inscribed "TT 44" and stamped with the Estate stamp
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in, 26.7 x 21.6 cm

Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CAD

Sold for: $1,501,250

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
Acquired from the above by Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1941
G. Blair Laing, Toronto
By descent to Andrea Hines, Nova Scotia, 1991
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto, 2001
Private Collection, 2006

LITERATURE
J. Russell Harper, Painting in Canada: A History, 1966, reproduced page 282; and in the second edition, 1977, reproduced page 363
David P. Silcox and Harold Town, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm, 1977, page 108, reproduced page 109
Joan Murray, Flowers: J.E.H. MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, 2002, titled as Orchids, Algonquin Park, reproduced pages 104 and 105
David P. Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, 2003, page 50, reproduced page 53


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


Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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