A Prominent Canadian Corporation
Joyner Waddingtons, auction, Toronto, November 22, 2010, Lot 90E
Private Collection, Ontario
From 1920 to 1922, Robert Pilot studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and in 1922, he exhibited at the Paris Salon. His work took on Impressionist influences after he visited the artists’ colony at Concarneau. The pastel blue sky and dappled light on the water in “Parliament Hill, Overlooking the Rideau Canal”, recalls the work of European Impressionists, particularly the French harbour scenes and paintings of bridges over the Seine. Pilot depicts the beginning of the changing of leaves in early fall - a subject that is specific to the Canadian Impressionists.
