signed on the reverse; titled and dated "c.1948" to the reverse of the frame
9.5 × 14.25 in (24.1 × 36.2 cm) (sight)
Auction Estimate:$2,500 - $3,500
Sale date:August 5 - 19, 2025
Price Realized
$2,400
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Estate of the Artist, Oshawa
By descent to R.S. McLaughlin (son of the Artist)
Gifted to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, c.1975
Joan Murray, Whitby
Private Collection, British Columbia
Exhibited
Possibly Ronald Lambert and Margaret L. McLaughlin, "Y.W.C.A.", Adelaide House, Oshawa, 26 January 1949
Literature
Joan Murray, "Alexandra Luke: Continued Searching", Oshawa, 1988, page 7, "By the spring of 1948, Luke was experimenting with small, loosely painted, inkblot-like works...," for related works to "Animal Fantasy" see page 19, nos. 19, 20
