Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

May 27, 2008

LOT 107

Lot 107

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
Lot 107 Details
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.

SHORELINE AT WAWA, LAKE SUPERIOR, AUGUST, 1954

oil on panel
signed, NJG Inventory no.1531
10 1/2 ins x 13 1/2 ins; 26.3 cms x 33.8 cms

Estimate $15,000-$20,000

Realised: $27,600
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

Jean Rose Dowsett, Toronto (gift from the artist)
By descent to the present owner

Literature:

Dennis Reid, Alberta Rhythm: The Later Work of A.Y. Jackson, Toronto, 1982, pages 29-32 and page 78, plate 58, reproduced.

Exhibited:

Alberta Rhythm: The Later Works of A.Y. Jackson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 15 - June 27, 1982. Also shown at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, July 16 - September 5, 1982.

Note:

Painted in August, 1954.

In August, 1954, Jackson left the Studio Building - the only Toronto home he had known in forty years - and bought a small piece of property at Manotick, near Ottawa. Reid writes that about that time, the artist visited the east shore of Lake Superior near Wawa for the first time in years and had a small cabin built for himself.

CONDITION DETAILS

good condition visually; several labels verso- Alberta Rhythm exh. label; R.E. Dowsett's name inscribed several places and on exh. label; top approx. 2" of the panel verso has a horizontal split in the plywood going across from left to right (at the sides of the panel, one can see that this layer of ply is starting to lift - this does not of course effect the front in any way as there are several layers of ply

LOT 107
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