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LOT 143

CGP CSGA CSPWC
1882 - 1953
Canadien

Elms and Fences, Palgrave, Ontario
huile sur toile, circa 1930
signé et au verso inscrit
16 x 20 po, 40.6 x 50.8 cm

Estimation : 60 000 $ - 80 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 91 250 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Sale of the Artist to Vincent Massey, 1934
Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1948
Dr. H. Freeman, Toronto, 1958
Sold sale of Canadian Art, Joyner Fine Art, November 28, 1989, lot 29, titled as Farm Hills, Palgrave
Private Collection, Vancouver

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Ian M. Thom, editor, David Milne, Vancouver Art Gallery and McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1991, page 113
David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume 2: 1929 - 1953, 1998, page 499, reproduced page 499, catalogue #302.26


From 1930 to 1933 David Milne resided in Palgrave, a small village beside the Humber River in Ontario’s Caledon Hills. This area had been cleared for farming, leaving isolated stands of the original forest. Its rounded hills were shaped by the elements, which partially exposed the underlying stony ground, leaving the interesting patterns we see here. Milne was also fascinated by the open skies at Palgrave and responded to, in his words, “the feeling of light, serenity, everything open above the line of the earth.” In Elms and Fences, Palgrave, Ontario, Milne used what he called “the great restful space above the horizon” to create a sensation of calm and expansiveness. The grey-white tone of the sky is echoed in similar hues in the hills, producing a floating, dematerialized spatial plane. This emphasizes Milne’s unique and organic use of line to delineate the elements of the landscape, an unmistakable hallmark of his extraordinary work.

The catalogue raisonné states that “this painting may be a development from the drypoint Lines of Earth, which is based on the painting Lap of Earth,” a similar landscape from 1930.


Estimation : 60 000 $ - 80 000 $ CAD

Tous les prix affichés sont en dollars canadiens


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