AAM CGP CSGA CSPWC G7 OSA RCA
1885 - 1969
Canadian
McGregor Bay Islands
oil on canvas, 1925
signed and on verso titled on the Art Gallery of Toronto label and inscribed "McGregor Island, Lismer" and with the University Club of Toronto inventory #UCT-0000-L005 on a label and variously
32 1/4 x 40 1/4 in, 81.9 x 102.2 cm
Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000 CAD
Sold for: $1,621,250
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PROVENANCE
Harry S. Southam, Ottawa, 1936
Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1950
University Club of Toronto
LITERATURE
“Back to Intelligibility,” Toronto Telegram, January 12, 1925
Bess Housser, “In the Realm of Art,” The Canadian Bookman, vol. 7, no. 2, February 1925, page 33
Barker Fairley, “The Group of Seven,” The Canadian Forum, vol. 53, 1925, page 146
Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer: Paintings, 1913 – 1949, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1950, reproduced as plate 9 and listed, unpaginated
John A.B. McLeish, September Gale: A Study of Arthur Lismer of the Group of Seven, 1955, reproduced facing page 68
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Toronto, Group of Seven Exhibition of Paintings, January 9 – February 2, 1925, titled as Macgregor Bay, Georgian Bay, catalogue #39
British Empire Exhibition, London, Canadian Section of Fine Arts, May 9 – October 31, 1925, catalogue #EE.59; traveling to the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Exhibition of Canadian Art, November 26 – December 23, 1925, catalogue #45; York City Art Gallery, January 16 – February 13, 1926; Corporation Art Gallery, Bury, February 20 – March 20, 1926, catalogue #52; Blackpool, March 27 – April 24, 1926; Corporation Art Gallery, Rochdale, May 1 – 29, 1926, catalogue #52; Corporation Art Gallery, Oldham, June 12 – July 10, 1926, catalogue #52; Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford, July 17 – August 14, 1926; Queen’s Park Branch Art Gallery, Manchester, Exhibition of Canadian Pictures, August 28 – October 9, 1926, catalogue #165; Sheffield, October 15 – December 11,1926; and the Municipal Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, January 12 – February 12, 1927, catalogue #2
Exhibited continued
Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d’art canadien, April 10 – May 10, 1927, catalogue #110
Art Gallery of Toronto, Paintings by Contemporary Canadian Artists, June 20 – September 20, 1927
Nutana Collegiate, Saskatoon, Group of Seven Exhibition, April 3 – 26, 1928, titled as McGregor Bay, catalogue #50
J. Merritt Malloney Gallery, Toronto, Exhibition of Paintings, Sketches and Drawings by Arthur Lismer, A.R.C.A., O.S.A., May 4 – 25, 1935, titled as Macgregor Bay Islands, catalogue #9
Art Gallery of Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Paintings Celebrating the Opening of the Margaret Eaton Gallery and the East Gallery, from November 8, 1935, titled as Islands, MacGregor Bay and dated 1927, catalogue #120
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Members of the Group of Seven, 1919 – 1933, February 20 – April 15, 1936, traveling to the Art Association of Montreal, April 17 – May 3, 1936, and the Art Gallery of Toronto, May 15 – June 15, 1936, catalogue #134
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Lismer, A.R.C.A., November 1936, catalogue #13
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Paintings Lent by H.S. Southam, Esq., C.M.G., Ottawa, May 27 – July 2, 1944, catalogue #56
Art Gallery of Toronto, Arthur Lismer: Paintings, 1913 – 1949, January 13 – February 26, 1950, traveling to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, April 13 – May 30, 1950, catalogue #22
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Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000 CAD
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