signed lower left; signed, titled and dated “August 1956” on the reverse
10.5 × 13.5 in (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
Auction Estimate:$20,000 - $30,000
Sale date:June 15, 2022
Price Realized
$21,600
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Dennis Reid, “A Concise History of Canadian Painting”, second edition, Toronto, 1988, page 247
The volume of work that A.Y. Jackson produced in his lifetime is incredible. “Lagoon, Georgian Bay” was painted at a time when Jackson was not only keeping up with an increased demand for his artwork, but the artist was also regularly contributing to newspapers and magazines, participating in a retrospective exhibition and writing his autobiography. As Dennis Reid remarked, it is a testament to the artist that well into the 1950s he still held court as the “heart and soul of painting in the city – in fact in most of English-speaking Canada.”
Though the founding members of the Group stopped painting Algonquin Park after the death of Tom Thomson and before the official assembly of the group, some continued to paint Georgian Bay long after the Group disbanded. Jackson had a particularly strong connection to the region.
