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May 25, 2015

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LOT 28

Lot 28

FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.

FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
Lot 28 Details
FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.

INDIANS PADDLING AT SUNSET

watercolour on card
signed and dated 1902
10 ins x 20 ins; 25.4 cms x 50.8 cms

Estimate $6,000-$8,000

Realised: $8,850
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature:

Joan Murray, The Last of the Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West, Pagurian Press, Toronto, 1984, pages 68 and 115.

Note:

Murray writes: “Verner first studied Indians from life in Peterborough, Ontario. Indians paddling in a canoe eventually became a favourite subject.” Examples date from the late 1860s to first decade of the next century. Despite little variation from picture to picture, the demand for such works continued. Murray continues: “The art-buying public loved Verner’s Indian subjects partly because he painted an era which even by the 1890s no longer existed.” Instead collectors, then as today, appreciated the poetry of the subject and his romantic handling of it.

CONDITION DETAILS

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