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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

November 25, 2008

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LOT 126

Lot 126

SAMUEL BORENSTEIN

SAMUEL BORENSTEIN
Lot 126 Details
SAMUEL BORENSTEIN

HOCHELAGA

gouache on card
signed and dated ‘48
16 1/2 ins x 20 3/4 ins; 41.3 cms x 51.9 cms

Estimate $12,000-$15,000

Realised: $8,050
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Literature:

Sam Borenstein, catalogue, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 2005, pages 38-41, chapter entitled Montreal Streets.

Note:

Borenstein’s paintings of city streets are distinguished as modernist through his conspicuous attention to formal elements. The houses are geometric patterns in a landscape, elements in a composition woven together by the shapes of the trees, road and sky. Borenstein’s paintings of mundane city streets were similar in some respects to the paintings of artists whose work he knew well: Jack Beder, Louis Muhlstock and Ernst Neumann.

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