signed and dated 1951 lower right; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
14.25 × 17.75 in (36.2 × 45.1 cm) (sight)
Auction Estimate:$6,000 - $8,000
Sale date:September 15 - 29, 2020
Price Realized
$4,800
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Kaspar Gallery, Toronto
John Hansler, Ontario
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibited
Jock W.G. Macdonald: A Retrospective Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Toronto, April 30 - May 29, 1960
John Hansler: a life collecting, McMaster Museum of Art’s Tomlinson Gallery, May 18 - August 5, 2017
Literature
J.W.G. Macdonald, "Reflections on a Trip to the Canadian International Seminar at Breda, Holland", Highlights (paper of the Alberta Society of Artists) 4:2, 1950, page 6
Joyce Zemans, “Jock Macdonald: The Inner Landscape: A Retrospective Exhibition”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1981, page 143-144
In 1949, Jock Macdonald spent the summer as a professor at the International Student Seminars at Breda, teaching for Unesco in Holland. Macdonald visited the Indonesian Museum while there, and as a result the artist was “transported into a world of fantasy, exotic colour, subtle charm of design and playfulness in subject matter.” On his return to Toronto, Macdonald “was saturated with images of Eastern dancers and Buddhas, and fascinated by the complicated patterns of the Indonesian batiks.”
