Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction

November 25, 2011

LOT 58

Lot 58

FREDERICK GRANT BANTING

FREDERICK GRANT BANTING
Lot 58 Details
FREDERICK GRANT BANTING

POND INLET

ink
signed and titled in the margin
4 3/4 ins x 6 ins; 11.9 cms x 15 cms

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

Realised: $5,900
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

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FREDERICK GRANT BANTING
  • FREDERICK GRANT BANTING
Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist.
By descent to the present owner, Ontario.

Literature:

D.B.G. Fair, Banting & Jackson, An Artistic Brotherhood, London, Ontario, 1997, pages 10-12.

Exhibited:

Exhibitions of Paintings by the late Sir Frederick Banting, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Saturday 13th February to Monday 1st March, 1943.

Note:

Frederick Banting and A.Y. Jackson’s Arctic expedition aboard the Beothic began on July 16th, 1927, the steamer leaving from Sydney, Cape Breton, moving through the Straits of Belle Isle, with Greenland spotted a week after departing. After a brief stop in Godhavn, “the Beothic next pushed through the Melville ice-pack. The weather cleared to allow the painters to record Bylot Island as the ship moved westward to visit Pond Inlet, Baffin Island.” Banting found “the sense of freedom, stimulated by the [Arctic] trip, resulted in great improvement in his art work and encouraged him. On the first day at sea, he had thrown his white collar overboard as a symbol of his release from the confines of his research and social burdens. Jackson told Banting that his new sketches showed a lot of promise and would joke that he should abandon science for art. Banting stated he intended to do that at age 50 for he regarded research as a young man’s job.”

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