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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

November 25, 2008

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LOT 138

Lot 138

CHARLES FRASER COMFORT, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.

CHARLES FRASER COMFORT, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.
Lot 138 Details
CHARLES FRASER COMFORT, O.S.A., P.R.C.A.

ITALIAN MOUNTAIN VILLAGE

oil on canvas
signed and dated /45
24 ins x 30 ins; 60 cms x 75 cms

Estimate $3,000-$5,000

Realised: $6,900
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Literature:

Joan Murray, Canadian Artists of the Second World War, Oshawa, 1981, page 23, for a photograph of Captain C.F. Comfort (later Major) painting near Ortona, Italy in 1944.

Charles Fraser Comfort, Artist of War, Toronto 1995, for the artist’s account of his experience, especially details of the Italian Campaign.

Dean Oliver and Laura Brandon, Canvas of War, Painting the Canadian Experience, 1914 to 1945, Ottawa, 2000, page 164, illustrated, for another work of an Italian mountain village painted circa 1945.

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