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Mary Lake / Grace Lake

oil on board

signed lower right; signed on the reverse. inscribed "More likely Grace Lake, AYJ" on the reverse, certified and dated “Sept 30 1978” by David B. Mansur on the reverse; titled to the exhibition label on the reverse

10.5 × 13.5 in (26.7 × 34.3 cm)

Auction Estimate:$25,000 - $30,000

Sale date:June 11 - 25, 2024

Price Realized

$28,800

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Lady Henrietta Banting, Toronto Sotheby’s Canada, auction, Toronto, 18 November 1986, lot 491 Private Collection, Toronto

Exhibited

“First annual Art Exhibition of the Physicians Art Association”, San Francisco Museum of Art, 12-18 June 1938 Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Sir Frederick Banting, Hart House, University of Toronto, 13 February-1 March 1943 as "Mary Lake, Canadian Rockies" “Our Visual Heritage”, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, 3-26 August 2000

Literature

A.Y. Jackson, Banting as an Artist, The Ryerson Press, Toronto 1943, page 23, reproduced as "Mary Lake, Canadian Rockies"