CGP G7 MSA
1890 - 1956
Canadian
Still Life
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled on the labels
18 1/4 x 20 in, 46.4 x 50.8 cm
Available for post auction sale. CAD
PRICE: $18,750
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Bertram Brooker, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Important Canadian Art, Sotheby's Canada in association with Ritchie's, May 30, 2005, lot 141
Private Collection, Toronto
LITERATURE
Bertram Brooker to LeMoine FitzGerald, October 17, 1930, Bertram Brooker fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
Bertram Brooker to LeMoine FitzGerald, March 26, 1931, Bertram Brooker fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
Bertram Brooker to LeMoine FitzGerald, August 6, 1931, Bertram Brooker fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
Michael Parke-Taylor, Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2020, reproduced page 120
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Toronto, An Exhibition of Paintings by the Canadian Group of Painters, November 1933, catalogue #17, travelling to the Art Association of Montreal, January 1934, catalogue #14
National Gallery of Canada, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Members of the Group of Seven 1919-1933, February 20 - April 15, 1936, catalogue #46
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, travelling to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, October 12, 2019 - February 17, 2020
Lemoine Fitzgerald was a respected figure in his artistic community, a brief member of the Group of Seven, and importantly, a founding member of the Group’s successor, the Canadian Group of Painters. This painting was originally owned by fellow CGP artist Bertram Brooker, who expressed deep admiration for it in his letters to Fitzgerald. Shortly after acquiring the work in 1931, Brooker wrote, “since it has now so firmly established itself on our walls, we would have great difficulty in parting with it,” and elsewhere called it “a very beautiful thing… I am [to] no end proud to have it for a while.”
Other artists shared Brooker’s enthusiasm. Brooker noted that artist Charles Comfort, on seeing this work, “just jumped … he agrees with me that it is one of your very topnotch things”. In another letter, Brooker relayed that “Lismer … saw it on a wall just across from a Cezanne reproduction,” and “felt that it stood up extremely well beside it”, and that “Lawren admires it, too.” These contemporary reactions speak to the high regard Fitzgerald’s peers held for his work, as well as the captivating quality which this painting possesses.
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