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LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970)

Lot 142
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 839072
Lot 142 | LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970)

From Berg Lake, Morning

signed and inscribed twice ‘Lawren Harris Sketches of Mount Robson From Berg Lake, Morning’ (on the reverse)

oil on board

12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm.)

Painted in 1929





Provenance

Anne Harris (daughter-in-law of the artist, gift from the artist, before 1934).

Private collection (by descent from the above).

Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto.

Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art Inc., Vancouver.

Peter and Joanne Brown, Vancouver (acquired from the above, 1984); sale, Heffel Fine Art Auctions, Toronto, 23 November 2016, lot 209.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

D. Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, Rocky Mountain Sketches, no. 3.

D. Ord, The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture, Ontario, 2003, p. 36.



Exhibited

Art Gallery of Toronto, OSA Little Pictures, December 1930, no. 468 (illustrated).

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada and Vancouver Art Gallery, Lawren Harris Retrospective Exhibition, June-October 1963.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930, January-February 1978, p. 174, no. 148 (illustrated, as Mount Robson from Berg Lake).



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This work will be included in the forthcoming Lawren S. Harris Inventory Project being compiled by Alec Blair.
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