Canadian Fine Art Auction

May 26, 2014

LOT 19

Lot 19

BERTRAM BROOKER, R.C.A.

BERTRAM BROOKER, R.C.A.
Lot 19 Details
BERTRAM BROOKER, R.C.A.

CREATION, C. 1927

oil on illustration board
titled on the reverse and with a certification on the Homestead Gallery label by Victor Brooker, Bertram Brooker Estate Catalogue no. OC65 on the backing
24 ins x 17 ins; 61 cms x 43.2 cms

Estimate $8,000-$10,000

Realised: $28,320
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

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BERTRAM BROOKER, R.C.A.
  • BERTRAM BROOKER, R.C.A.
Provenance:

Estate of the artist
Collection of Mrs. Phyllis Brooker Smith, Midhurst, Ontario
Private Collection, Waterloo

Literature:

Dennis Reid, Bertram Brooker (Canadian Artists Monograph), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1973, page 37, cat. no.1, reproduced.

Ann Davis, The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940, (exhibition catalogue), London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, 1990, page 39, figure 12, reproduced and page 65, listed. 

Ann Davis, The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992, page 71, reproduced. 

Exhibited:

B.R. Brooker, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1972 and travelling to other galleries including the Confederation Art Centre, no.1.

The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940, London Regional Art and Historical Museums, March 10-April 22, 1990 and travelling to Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Mendel Art Gallery, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax.

Note:

Brooker settled in Toronto in 1921 and joined the Arts & Letters Club in 1923. There he met Lawren Harris with whom he would share a friendship founded on their mutual interest in Theosophy and Transcendentalism.

CONDITION DETAILS

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