Lot 244
CLARENCE ALPHONSE GAGNON, R.C.A.
Literature:
Rene Boissay, Clarence Gagnon, Ottawa, 1988, Charles C. Hill/Pierre B. Landry, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Art, Volume Two, Ottawa, 1988, page 6, no.203, and figure 3479, reproduced, for a related impression.
Rosemarie Tovell, A New Class of Art: The Artist’s Print in Canada 1877-1920, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1996, En Novembre reproduced on the cover.
Note:
Boissay describes En Novembre as Gagnon’s “liveliest and most beautiful engraving.” Rosemarie Tovell refers to En Novembre as a “startingly accomplished print.” She also writes: “The expressively drawn, richly inked En Novembre captures the cold and windy weather about which the artist complained in his letters from Pont-de-l’Arche in 1904.”
CONDITION DETAILS
he Gagnon was not examined out of frame. The mats and backing are newer, the mat board is a conservation mat, the sheet is yellowed/burned evenly overall; there is some inking stains in small areas in the margins: in the upper right margin there are two such stains; there is also an inking stain at the plate mark at the mid right side; there is a smaller ink stain at the lower left margin near the plate mark, and a small ink stain at the top left near the plate mark