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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction

November 22, 2010

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LOT 207

Lot 207

JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.

JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
Lot 207 Details
JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.

CAPRICE

oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed and dated /58
16 ins x 20 ins; 40 cms x 50 cms

Estimate $15,000-$20,000

Realised: $37,760
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Sale of Canadian Art, The Women’s Committee of the Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto.
Private Collection, Toronto.

Literature:

Joyce Zemans, Jock Macdonald: the inner landscape/a retrospective exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981, page 211.

Note:

In a discussion of Macdonald’s works painted in 1958, Zemans describes that the artist’s “images rise or descend from the base of the canvas, or from its upper edge, to lie on the surface, where they breathe in the atmosphere of infinite space. The surging shapes and variegated colours suggest growth and life, and must surely refer to the microscopic images that inspired [his] investigation of abstract imagery.”

CONDITION DETAILS

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