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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

May 29, 2007

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LOT 52

Lot 52

DAVID BROWN MILNE

DAVID BROWN MILNE
Lot 52 Details
DAVID BROWN MILNE

SPENCER’S CORNERS, NEAR IRONDALE CEMETARY

watercolour
signed and inscribed “MR13, M.T. RIGA, Nov.11 ‘21”
1434.0" x 21.0" (36.9 cm x 52.5 cm)

Estimate $20,000-$30,000

Realised: $31,050
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Douglas Duncan/Picture Loan Society, Toronto
Frieda James Studio, Toronto
Mrs. R.L. Anderson, Toronto
Nancy Gross, Toronto
Joyner Fine Art Inc., Toronto (sale May, 1989, Lot 98)
Private Collection, Toronto

Literature:

David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Volume 1: 1882 - 1928, Toronto, 1998, page 336, no.204.13, reproduced.

Exhibited:

Art Association of Montreal, 1924, no.72.
Arts Club, Montreal, 1924.

Note:

According to the artist’s notes, Milne was first attracted to this subject “by the wide, clean spaces of the large monument and the varying angles of the other stones. Later became interested in the tree and the row of houses and trees beyond. An iron fence ran between two larger monuments, but I couldn’t develop anything of interest from the complicated combination of fence and stones, so I retained only varying angled stones.”

The cemetery at Spencer’s Corner’s is still intact, and the view Milne painted is virtually identical today, even to the fences and the buildings across the road.

CONDITION DETAILS

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