The Other Side of Life (Depression Years), 1938

watercolour on card

signed lower centre

10.25 × 7.25 in (26.0 × 18.4 cm) (card)

Auction Estimate:$700 - $900

Sale date:February 14 - 21, 2018

Price Realized

$1,888

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Kastel Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Ottawa

Exhibited

Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Art Gallery of Toronto, April 1938, one of five works by the artist exhibited as nos. 169-173 (as “The Other Side of Life”) Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, August 26-September 1938, one of five works by the artist exhibited, as “The Other Side of Life” numbers 1-5

Another work from this series, “The Other Side of Life No. 5” (watercolour and ink; 9 ins x 6.5 ins) is in the collection of Museum London, London, Ontario (70.A.75, Gift from the Estate of Douglas M. Duncan).