ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
1885 - 1970
Canadian
Northern Lake
oil on canvas, 1926
signed and on verso titled on the exhibition labels, inscribed "Sesquicentennial Exposition, 13" (circled) / "1 x 9" / "Gold Med" and with the University Club of Toronto inventory #UCT-0000-H012 on a label and stamped Exposition d’art canadien, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1927
36 1/2 x 45 1/2 in, 92.7 x 115.6 cm
Estimate: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Walter Massey, Toronto, 1926
R.S. Waldie, Toronto
A gift from the above to the University Club of Toronto, 1959
LITERATURE
Exhibitions of the Group of Seven and Art in French Canada, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1926, listed page 3
Paintings, Sculpture & Prints in the Department of Fine Arts, Sesqui-Centennial
International Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926, reproduced page 42 and listed page 85
Dorothy Grafly, “The Palace of the Arts: Sesquicentennial in Retrospect,” American Magazine of Art, vol. 17, no. 12, December 1926, pages 630 – 638
“Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Art Has Resulted in Fine Picture Collection,” Ottawa Citizen, January 12, 1927
“Canadian Exhibit in Ottawa,” Christian Science Monitor, circa February 1927
Alice Mackay, “The Second Annual Exhibition of Canadian Art,” Canadian Homes & Gardens, April 1927, reproduced page 32
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibitions of the Group of Seven and Art in French Canada, May 7 – 31, 1926, catalogue #21
Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, June 1 – December 1, 1926, Gold Medal winner, catalogue #1564
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Annual Exhibition of Canadian Art, January 11 – February 28, 1927
Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d’art canadien, April 10 – May 10, 1927, titled as Lac du Nord, catalogue #61
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness
Landscapes, 1906 – 1930, January 14 – February 26, 1978, catalogue #141
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, October 11, 2015 – January 24, 2016, traveling in 2016 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, catalogue #33
Literature continued
Exposition d’art canadien, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1927, titled as Lac du Nord, listed page 21
Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906 – 1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, reproduced page 150 and listed page 229
Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, National Gallery of Canada, 1995, mentioned pages 203 and 301 note 18; photos of the 1927 exhibition at Musée du Jeu de Paume reproduced page 216
Steve Martin et al., The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2015, reproduced page 128
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The work is in a handcrafted period frame by Alfred J. Boughton, a Toronto picture framer who made frames for Harris and other members of the Group of Seven.
Estimate: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 CAD
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