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
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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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