Canadian Fine Art Auction

May 26, 2014

LOT 33

Lot 33

MAURICE GALBRAITH CULLEN, R.C.A.

MAURICE GALBRAITH CULLEN, R.C.A.
Lot 33 Details
MAURICE GALBRAITH CULLEN, R.C.A.

THE DEEP POOL, 1926

oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed, Cullen inventory no.1081
24.25 ins x 18.25 ins; 61.6 cms x 46.4 cms

Estimate $50,000-$70,000

Realised: $56,640
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

W.R. Watson, Westmount, Quebec
The Estate of Claire Watson Fisher, Victoria, British Columbia

Literature:

Sylvia Antoniou, Maurice Cullen, 1866-1934, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1982, page 41.

Exhibited:

300 Years of Canadian Art, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1967, no. 226.

Note:

Legendary art dealer, William Watson, to whom this painting belonged, and whose gallery was situated on St. Catherine Street in Montreal from 1921 until his retirement in 1958, gave Cullen his first show in 1923 and did so annually until the 1934 Cullen Retrospective held just months before the artist’s death.

Antoniou writes: “Watson’s support and promotion of the artist’s Laurentian landscapes played an important role in Cullen’s production.” A demand rose for the Laurentian paintings and as Watson said: ”He (Cullen) painted very slowly and I would have to put paintings aside collecting them for a year, to have enough to make an exhibition.”

According to a typed label on the stretcher, this work was painted in St. Marguerite.

CONDITION DETAILS

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