Sold for: $115,250

PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, Winnipeg

Regina Seiden studied under William Brymner and Maurice Cullen at the Art Association of Montreal, and she continued her studies in Paris, at the Académie Julian, from 1921 to 1922. She was a founding member of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and in 1924 exhibited at the influential British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, England. The National Gallery of Canada was an early supporter, acquiring three of her paintings. In 1928, she married well-known artist Eric Goldberg and, as she became involved with supporting his career, stopped painting. But she taught art at the couple’s Westmount synagogue for 20 years. Seiden’s contributions to early modernism have been recognized in recent years in the 2016 exhibition 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Marketplace is a complex composition that uses interesting juxtapositions of geometric forms – round cartwheels, rectangles of windows in the buildings and in the table supports, as well as triangular forms in the awnings. The painted surfaces of the buildings and the open square are softly brushed and exquisitely modulated in a palette of predominantly earth tones, with highlights of red and orange. In this splendid large oil, Seiden deftly captured the peaceful yet vibrant atmosphere of this urban market.

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