Sotheby’s Canada, auction, May 12, 1975 (purchased by present owner)
Private Collection, Calgary
Literature
Dennis Reid, A Concise History of Canadian Painting, third edition, Toronto, 2012, page 107
Largely an artist who isolated himself from any particular artist group or school, Suzor-Coté was heavily influenced by European traditions in landscape painting. Whether depicting his native Arthabaska region in Quebec, or the rural countryside of France outside of Paris, the artist employed a skillful but subtle use of colour in his completed works. Commissioned to be a painter for church interiors and artworks, Suzor-Coté utilized a decorative painterly style in his practice to produce pleasing and calm traditional landscapes. As Impressionism in Europe came about during the artist's career at the end of the nineteenth century, the viewer can see the looser brushwork begin to emerge in this work and the influence of this school take root in Canada.
