signed lower left; titled and dated 1975 on the stretcher
29.25 × 33.25 in (74.3 × 84.5 cm)
Auction Estimate:$2,500 - $3,500
Sale date:October 20 - 27, 2020
Price Realized
$2,280
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Waddington Galleries, Montreal
Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto/Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
While Toni Onley is one of Canada’s most celebrated postwar landscape artists, he was also an avid pilot, flying his small float plane to some of British Columbia and Northern Canada’s most remote regions. While exploring these serene locales, Onley would produce sketches of the landscape from this aerial vantage point. “Arctic Bay” bears the quintessential cool colour palette synonymous with the artist’s work, with an emphasis on white swaths, highlights and reduction of form. Onley captures the profound landscape of Baffin Island with his trademark contemplative artistic process and sensitivity towards the landscape.
