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May 25, 2015

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LOT 15

Lot 15

MARC-AURÈLE FORTIN, A.R.C.A.

MARC-AURÈLE FORTIN, A.R.C.A.
Lot 15 Details
MARC-AURÈLE FORTIN, A.R.C.A.

LA CUEILLETTE

watercolour, laid down on card
signed
18.5 ins x 24 ins; 47 cms x 61 cms

Estimate $8,000-$12,000

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

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Charles Bronfman’s Claridge Collection, Montreal

Literature:

Interview MAF-RB 1968/5, quoted in Michèle Grandbois (ed.), Marc-Aurèle Fortin: The Experience of Colour, Les Éditions de l’Homme, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2011, page 102.

Note:

Marc-Aurèle Fortin started to work with watercolour in the early 1920s. By virtue of the immediacy of the medium, his work changed drastically, setting the stage for dazzling landscapes that bordered the limits of reality. Describing his use of watercolour, Fortin said: “when you master it, it's like a morphine addiction. It's a tremendous mania.” La Cueillette, vivid and luminous, is an exquisite display of the painter's whimsical palette.

Sold to benefit Historica Canada.

CONDITION DETAILS

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