The Art of Canada Auction (Canadian Art)

May 30, 2016

LOT 77

Lot 77

FRANKLIN MILTON ARMINGTON

FRANKLIN MILTON ARMINGTON
Lot 77 Details
FRANKLIN MILTON ARMINGTON

LES BOUQUINS, PLACE DE L’INSTITUT, PARIS

oil on canvas
signed and dated 1925; also signed and titled on the reverse
20 ins x 24 ins; 49.5 cms x 61 cms

Estimate $10,000-$15,000

Realised: $14,400
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Provenance:

Estate of the artist
By descent to Ann Lownsbury (the artist’s cousin once-removed)
Private Collection, Canada

Literature:

Janet Braide and Nancy Parke-Taylor, Caroline and Frank Armington: Canadian Painter-Etchers in Paris, Art Gallery of Peel, (catalogue), Ontario, 1990.

Paul Duval, Canadian Impressionism, McClelland & Stewart,Inc., Toronto, 1990, page 134 and page 135 for a related work of bookseller stalls along the Seine, reproduced in colour.

Note:

Frank Armington enjoyed critical and popular interest internationally though his work was less well-known in Canada and infrequently appears at auction in this country.

Trained in Paris, Armington and his artist-wife Caroline spent most of their lives abroad and exhibited rarely in Canada despite being adept marketers of their work. The Armingtons were represented by some of the best galleries of the day including Durand-Ruel and Ralston in New York. Durand-Ruel was, of course, the gallery which had first introduced French Impressionism, specifically, the works of Monet, Pisarro and Renoir, to the American public.

That the Armingtons were not well-known here had little to do with the calibre of their work and everything to do with the taxes levied on works that were imported to Canada at that time.

The Armingtons were the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1929.

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