Sold for: $7,500

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Garfield Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Vienna

This brisk, on-site oil sketch by Robert Pilot bears a title that, at first glance, may be misleading. Ontario’s Lake Superior is an essential source of inspiration for artists, most famous among them the Group of Seven, with A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris first painting its shores in 1921. The location depicted in this painting, however, is more likely that of Lac-Supérieur, located in the Laurentian region of Quebec, just to the east of Mont Trembant. Here Pilot presents the Laurentian’s distinctive pink and purple mountains as the backdrop to a gestural patterning of trees stripped nearly bare by winter.

The verso of this painting is also notable. It bears a Garfield Galleries label, which was a Toronto fine art gallery in existence until sometime in the early 1950s. Along with the nearby Carroll Fine Arts, they handled paintings by Canadian artists at a time where there were few venues for their work outside of artists’ organizations such as the Royal Canadian Academy or the Ontario Society of Artists.

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