Lot 36
MARC-AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ, R.C.A.
Lot 36 Details
MARC-AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ, R.C.A.
EFFET DU SOIR
oil on board
signed and dated 1908; inscribed “8 Septembre 1908/Oak Ridge, Virginia” and “Hommage à Mademoiselle B. Clark” on the reverse
8.5 ins x 10.25 ins; 22.2 cms x 26 cms
Estimate $7,000-$9,000
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Nova Scotia
Literature:
Laurier Lacroix, Suzor-Coté: light and matter, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2002, pages 182-184.
Note:
Suzor-Coté arrived in Oak Ridge, Virginia, in late August 1908, at the behest of railway magnate Thomas Fortune Ryan. Ryan, a passionate collector and the first American patron of Auguste Rodin, had purchased the sprawling Oak Ridge estate in 1901. Suzor-Coté was commissioned to decorate the breakfast room of the villa. He painted two large paintings and two lunettes depicting the surrounding views of the countryside. Effet du Soir was painted in the first few weeks of Suzor-Coté’s six-month stay and emphasizes the same luminous twilight that can be seen in some of the final landscapes.