Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction

May 25, 2012

LOT 69

Lot 69

ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE

ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE
Lot 69 Details
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE

FLORAL STILL LIFE

oil on board
signed
16 ins x 18 ins; 40 cms x 45 cms

Estimate $10,000-$15,000

Realised: $10,620
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

Private Collection, Toronto.

Literature:

Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, Montreal, 1977, page 47.

Note:

McDougall writes that, “while the men in the Group of Seven were tracking the hills of Lake Superior, camping and roughing it among flaming maples and the desolate scrub of the north, the women of Montreal were painting, naturally enough, much gentler things: interiors with glimpses of the old city through a window, flower studies, Sherbrooke Street through a grey mist with the horses and caleches drawn up in a row, the rolling and yellow and mauve hills of the Eastern Townships, blue and white Quebec villages, and Laurentian spruce and clumps of elm.

If you put paintings by Anne Savage, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson, Mabel H. May, Mabel Lockerby, Nora Collyer, Lilias Torrence Newton, Ethel Seath and Kay Morris all together you get a ‘Montreal look.’ If it is a look of colour and mood; much of it comes from the French details: outside staircases, wide balconies, nuns strolling in a convent garden, baskets of pink geraniums, a wayside shrine. It is a look quite different from anything else painted in Canada.”

CONDITION DETAILS

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  • 1 Star: Poor - Flaws or damage immediately apparent under standard lighting (examples: missing components, rips, broken glass, damaged surfaces, etc.)

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