Canadian Fine Art Auction

November 27, 2013

LOT 3

Lot 3

ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN, O.S.A

ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN, O.S.A
Lot 3 Details
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN, O.S.A

HAPPY DAYS

mixed media drawing
27 ins x 36 ins; 68.6 cms x 91.4 cms

Estimate $1,500-$2,000

Realised: $1,888
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Literature:

Joan Murray, Isabel McLaughlin: Recollections, Oshawa, 1983, pages 11 and 20 and page 93 for a work entitled Fish Having Fun, reproduced.

Note:

Joan Murray describes McLaughlin as “one of the most important modernists in this country.” Mentored by Arthur Lismer and Lawren Harris, McLaughlin eventually developed an approach to creating that was independent of the influence of these two giants of Canadian art. “I got going in my way”, she said. Happy Days, probably executed in the late 1940s / early 1950s, affirms this shift toward something more uniquely her own - something happier, simpler, freer and more rhythmic.

CONDITION DETAILS

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