BCSFA CGP OC RCA
1913 - 2007
Canadian
Ten Minutes Rest during Route March on Kiska
graphite on paperboard
signed and dated 1945 and on verso signed, titled, dated 1943 and 1944 and inscribed with the Dominion Gallery inventory #E1350
19 7/8 x 23 3/4 in, 50.5 x 60.3 cm
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD
Sold for: $133,250
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PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Barbeau Owen Foundation Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Heather Robertson, A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War, Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the National Museum of Man, 1977, the related 1945 canvas Ten Minutes Rest—Kiska reproduced page 186
Jacques Barbeau, A Journey with E. J. Hughes: One Collector’s Odyssey, 2005, titled as Ten Minutes Rest during the March on Kiska, reproduced page 18 and listed page 165
Jacques Barbeau, E.J. Hughes Through the Decades, Volume 2, The Paper Works, 1931 – 1986, 2014, titled as Ten Minutes Rest during the March on Kiska, reproduced page 28 and listed page 84
Robert Amos, E.J. Hughes: Canadian War Artist, 2022, reproduced page 165
EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Exhibition of Canadian War Art, February 14 – March 11, 1946, traveling across Canada April 1946 – April 1947, the related 1945 canvas
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD
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