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November 23, 2015

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LOT 67

Lot 67

LAWREN STEWART HARRIS

LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Lot 67 Details
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS

ABSTRACT COMPOSITION (LSH 25)

oil on masonite
24.25 ins x 30 ins; 61.6 cms x 76.2 cms

Estimate $20,000-$30,000

Realised: $33,040
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
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Provenance:

Private Collection, Nova Scotia

Literature:

Bess Harris and R.G.P. Colgrove, (eds.), Lawren Harris, MacMillan of Canada, Toronto, 1960, page 91.

Andrew Hunter, Lawren Stewart Harris: A Painter’s Progress, Americas Society, New York, 2000, page 53.

Note:

Lawren Harris exhibited his abstract works for the first time in Canada in 1937 at the third exhibition of the Canadian Group of Painters. His decision to move away from the common ideals of the Group to pursue abstraction may not have been a popular decision at that time but it was, for him, an inevitable one.

Harris wrote: “My purpose in attempting to paint abstractions is that there is at once more imaginative scope and a more exacting discipline in non-objective painting. I have had ideas consistently forming which could not be expressed in representational terms.”

CONDITION DETAILS

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