signed lower right; artist’s studio label on the reverse
7 × 8.75 in (17.8 × 22.2 cm)
Auction Estimate:$3,000 - $5,000
Sale date:November 23, 2017
Price Realized
$3,450
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Ontario
Inspired by his travels throughout Europe between 1906 and 1909, “Sunset Landscape” evokes the romantic tone of European country landscape artists. The small oil painting demonstrates the artist’s development toward a lighter, more decorative palette found in Beatty’s post-war paintings. Though he gradually abandoned the dark and moody colour scheme that he had borrowed from traditional French and Dutch schools, the serene, poetic landscape still suggests influences of European styles in its subject.
