Sold for: $25,000

PROVENANCE
By descent through the Family of Sir Frederick Grant Banting to the present Private Collection, France

LITERATURE
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, page 6

EXHIBITED
Hart House, University of Toronto, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Sir Frederick Grant Banting, February 13 - March 1, 1943

Bic, Quebec was painted in the spring of 1927, during Dr. Frederick Banting’s and A.Y. Jackson’s first sketching trip together along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. In his autobiography, Jackson recounts that “this was Banting’s first experience of painting out of doors in wintertime. It was March, but there was no sign of spring, and we were working in very exposed country . . . Banting persisted, though it was an ordeal for him. I found him one day crouched behind a rail fence, the snow drifting into his sketch box and his hands so cold he could hardly work . . . Later, we went to Bic . . . Here the spring found us and we painted the melting snows.”

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