Lot 19
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
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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.