Manly Edward MacDonald, Portrait of a Fisherman (Study for “Fishermen, Lake Ontario”), oil on board, 1918

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Portrait of a Fisherman (Study for “Fishermen, Lake Ontario”), 1918

oil on board

signed and dated 1918 upper left; a river landscape on the reverse; sold together with an unframed pencil sketch of fishermen (8.5 ins x 11 ins)

10.5 × 8.75 in (26.7 × 22.2 cm)

Auction Estimate:$6,000 - $8,000

Sale date:January 18 - February 1, 2022

Price Realized

$9,000

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto

This artwork relates to the circa 1920 painting in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada (Accession No. 1705), the sitter present in the foreground of “Fishermen, Lake Ontario”.