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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

November 20, 2007

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LOT 71

Lot 71

ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.

ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.
Lot 71 Details
ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.

ARCHWAY IN BANCROFT

oil on canvas
signed
24" x 30" — 60 x 75 cm.

Estimate $40,000-$60,000

Realised: $62,100
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Estate of Douglas A. Berlis, Toronto

Literature:

Paul Duval, A.J. Casson, His Life & Works / A Tribute, Toronto, 1980, n.p.

Note:

Painted circa 1955.

Duval writes that a small on-the-spot sketch of 1948 possesses a special interest: “Archway in Bancroft brings together two compositional elements of which Casson is particularly fond - the use of an open passageway through a building to create an inner frame within a picture, and the galaxy of tin signs adorning the store in the background. The artist has searched out such sign-studded facades, which provide him with a built-in pattern of colour and shape. The archway effect is used as early as 1917, in the small oil sketch Cowshed, and again in the watercolour Barn Door, Baptiste of 1955.”

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