BCSFA CGP OC RCA
1913 - 2007
Canadian
Entrance to Howe Sound
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1949 and on verso titled, dated 1949 and inscribed "LD" [light damar varnish] "MED March 25 1948" / "LD MED March 31 1948" / "LD+ZC" [Zapon cellulose] "THIN Oct 22 1948"
32 x 36 in, 81.3 x 91.4 cm
Estimate: $1,250,000 - $1,750,000 CAD
Sold for: $4,801,250
Preview at:
PROVENANCE
Mr. D.G. Hahn, Toronto
Ronald MacDonald, Toronto
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
Lillian Mayland McKimm Collection, Calgary then Vancouver Island
LITERATURE
Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Arts, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1950, listed page 9
Doris Shadbolt, E.J. Hughes, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1967, reproduced, unpaginated
Paul Duval, High Realism in Canada, 1974, reproduced page 113
Jacques Barbeau, The E.J. Hughes Album, Volume 1, The Paintings, 1932 – 1991, 2011, dated as 1948, reproduced page 10 and listed page 90
Robert Amos, E.J. Hughes Paints British Columbia, 2019, reproduced page 42
EXHIBITED
Arts Centre of Victoria, Juried Exhibition, 1949
Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Arts, March 3 – April 16, 1950, catalogue #70
Vancouver Art Gallery, E.J. Hughes: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 5 – 29, 1967, traveling to York University, Toronto, November 13 – December 8, 1967, catalogue #12
Estimate: $1,250,000 - $1,750,000 CAD
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