signed with initials lower left; signed, titled and dated “October, 1963” on the reverse
8.5 × 10.5 in (21.6 × 26.7 cm)
Auction Estimate:$30,000 - $40,000
Sale date:May 25, 2017
Price Realized
$34,500
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Heffel Fine Art, auction, November 23, 2007
Private Collection, Winnipeg
Literature
Dennis Reid, Edwin H. Holgate, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1976, page 22, canvas reproduced page 82
A landscape painter, portraitist, muralist, printmaker and illustrator, Edwin Holgate most often found his subjects in the province of Quebec. The artist loved the outdoors and had always been interested in depicting the wilderness of the Laurentians. He built a cabin at Lake Tremblant in 1925, but later sold the property to purchase a nine-acre piece of land in Morin Heights, where he settled with his wife Frances in 1946. Dennis Reid remarks on Holgate's artistic output following his move, which accurately describes the colourful and dense composition “Autumn Tangle” of 1963: “His small oil sketches of the late forties and fifties in particular are sure and deft, spontaneous in response, yet resolved, tight works of art. Usually close-in, intimate studies of forest interiors, they are rich in observed detail and exciting colour.”
