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This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $50,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

995626 29-May-2025 01:03:05 PM $50,000

4852 29-May-2025 01:02:30 PM $47,500

995626 29-May-2025 01:01:46 PM $45,000

4852 29-May-2025 12:53:52 PM $42,500

15704 29-May-2025 12:53:03 PM $40,000

4852 29-May-2025 12:51:17 PM $37,500

27964 29-May-2025 12:50:32 PM $35,000

4852 29-May-2025 12:45:42 PM $32,500

27964 29-May-2025 12:44:58 PM $30,000

4852 29-May-2025 12:44:28 PM $27,500

27964 29-May-2025 12:42:11 PM $25,000

995626 18-May-2025 02:44:51 PM $22,500

36844 07-May-2025 05:34:43 PM $20,000

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, June 12, 2025 08:13:34

LOT 212

OSA RCA
1860 - 1892
Canadian

Breakfast, Brittany
oil on canvas on board
signed and dated 1889 and on verso titled on the gallery labels
11 x 14 1/2 in, 27.9 x 36.8 cm

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD

Sold for: $61,250

Preview at: Heffel Vancouver

PROVENANCE
Oliver Coate & Co., 1890, lot 26, sold as "Breakfast"
R.L. Patterson, Toronto
Sotheby's Toronto, October 21, 1975, lot 55, sold as "Small Girl Feeding Chickens"
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Schaeffer, 1975
Peter Ohler Fine Arts Ltd.
Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Victoria Baker, Paul Peel: A Retrospective, 1860 - 1892, 1986, London Regional Art Gallery, reproduced page 142
Dennis Reid, Collector's Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1988, reproduced page 42
Joan Murray, Home Truths: A Celebration of Family Life by Canada’s Best-Loved Painters, 1997, reproduced page 84
Magazin' Art, Spring 2002, reproduced page 114

EXHIBITED
London Regional Gallery, Paul Peel Retrospective Exhibition, travelling to the Royal Ontario Museum; Concordia Art Gallery; Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, 1986 - 1987
Art Gallery of Ontario, Collector's Canada Exhibition, travelling to the Musée du Quebec, Vancouver Art Gallery and Mendel Art Gallery, 1988 - 1989


In Home Truths Joan Murray writes:

"In 1889 Peel was living in Paris with his wife and two young children. During the summer they spent time in Pont-Aven, and it was probably there that he painted this scene, in which he explored the subject of a child out of doors."


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