Vendu pour : $31,250

PROVENANCE
G. Blair Laing Limited, Toronto, avant 1965
M. et Mme A.J. Latner, Toronto
Galerie Dominion, Montréal
Collection de Melvyn et Mitzi Dobrin, novembre 1968
L’art canadien, une collection exceptionnelle : la propriété d’un éminent collectionneur montréalais, Fraser Bros, Montréal, 23 octobre 1986, lot 40
Joyner Fine Art, 16 mai 1989, lot 94
Collection privée, Ottawa
Art canadien important, Sotheby’s Canada en association avec Ritchie’s, 22 novembre 2004, lot 39
Collection privée, Toronto

EXPOSITION
Bibliothèque publique de North York, The Latner Collection, juillet - septembre 1965, titré Orchard, Bretagne

Previously titled Orchard, Brittany, research suggests this work is from J.W. Morrice’s time in Northern Wales in late 1892. Popular with British artists who may have recommended it, Morrice was in the region visiting his parents holidaying in Lancashire near the Welsh border in the summer of 1892. Based on existing information, the artist seems to have spent his time sketching along the River Conwy in the medieval-era villages of Trefriw and Llanrwst.

Of the approximately one dozen works of the area he is known to have produced, such as Little Church in Wales, sold by Heffel in November of 2009, many display a very comparable earth-toned palette to the one shown here, and similar stylistic choices in the depiction of the near bare trees, overcast sky, and local architecture. Not only atmospheric and intimate, this work now also stands as a rare example from an acute period of Morrice’s work.

The provenance of this work is also very notable. At different points in its history, it hung in the eminent collections of A.J. Lantner and Melvyn and Mitzi Dobrin.

We thank Lucie Dorais for her assistance with the cataloguing of this painting. This work will be included in Dorais’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.

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