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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

November 20, 2007

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LOT 24

Lot 24

MARC-AURELE DE FOY SUZOR-COTE, R.C.A.

MARC-AURELE DE FOY SUZOR-COTE, R.C.A.
Lot 24 Details
MARC-AURELE DE FOY SUZOR-COTE, R.C.A.

VIEUX PAYSAN

charcoal
signed and dated 1913
16" x 11" — 40 x 27.5 cm.

Estimate $12,000-$15,000

Realised: $13,800
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Literature:

Hugues de Jouvancourt, Suzor-Cote, Montreal, 1967, page 214, illustrated, for a similar subject in charcoal entitled Le Pere Girouard, 1913.
Laurier Lacroix, Suzor-Cote: light and matter, page 276 (chapter entitled A Unique Portrait Gallery).

Note:

Suzor-Cote produced an impressive series of works in charcoal depicting the retired peasants and settlers of Arthabaska. The artist, in a 1933 letter to Pierre-Georges Roy, Director of the Quebec provincial museum, wrote “I firmly believe that my drawings are perhaps the best part of my work.” Lacroix states that these portraits “...form a unique gallery in Canadian Art.”

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