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Frederick Arthur Verner, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928), SIOUX ENCAMPMENT AT SUNSET, 1881, oil on canvas, 24
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FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928), CANADIAN
SIOUX ENCAMPMENT AT SUNSET, 1881
oil on canvas
signed and dated
24 x 42 in — 61 x 106.7 cm
Provenance:
The Pagurian Collection, Toronto, ON;
Collection of Sir Christopher and Lady Ondaatje
Exhibited:
Possibly exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Jul 1881, no. 145, as Sioux Teepees (Sunset).
Literature:
Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Verner, Painter of the Canadian West (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84 repro. col.
Note:
Although Verner moved back to England in 1880, he returned to Canada from time to time and continued to send paintings back to be exhibited by the Royal Canadian Academy, Ontario Society of Artists and Art Association of Montreal, while also working to build up interest in his work in England, broadening his market considerably.
In England, Verner painted variations on themes drawn from his previous Canadian oeuvre, adding new or different elements and subtracting others, much as a composer would rework the chords to make new musical arrangements. This lot was inspired by his earlier sketches drawn from life of Sioux teepees that date to 1867 (Collection of the National Gallery of Canada,) and his major canvas of 1877, “A Prairie Sunset,” in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. (1)
(1) Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West. (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84.
Related Works:
reproduced in Murray page 43
Estimate: $70,000—90,000
SIOUX ENCAMPMENT AT SUNSET, 1881
oil on canvas
signed and dated
24 x 42 in — 61 x 106.7 cm
Provenance:
The Pagurian Collection, Toronto, ON;
Collection of Sir Christopher and Lady Ondaatje
Exhibited:
Possibly exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Jul 1881, no. 145, as Sioux Teepees (Sunset).
Literature:
Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Verner, Painter of the Canadian West (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84 repro. col.
Note:
Although Verner moved back to England in 1880, he returned to Canada from time to time and continued to send paintings back to be exhibited by the Royal Canadian Academy, Ontario Society of Artists and Art Association of Montreal, while also working to build up interest in his work in England, broadening his market considerably.
In England, Verner painted variations on themes drawn from his previous Canadian oeuvre, adding new or different elements and subtracting others, much as a composer would rework the chords to make new musical arrangements. This lot was inspired by his earlier sketches drawn from life of Sioux teepees that date to 1867 (Collection of the National Gallery of Canada,) and his major canvas of 1877, “A Prairie Sunset,” in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. (1)
(1) Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West. (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84.
Related Works:
reproduced in Murray page 43
Estimate: $70,000—90,000
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FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928), CANADIAN
SIOUX ENCAMPMENT AT SUNSET, 1881
oil on canvas
signed and dated
24 x 42 in — 61 x 106.7 cm
Provenance:
The Pagurian Collection, Toronto, ON;
Collection of Sir Christopher and Lady Ondaatje
Exhibited:
Possibly exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Jul 1881, no. 145, as Sioux Teepees (Sunset).
Literature:
Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Verner, Painter of the Canadian West (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84 repro. col.
Note:
Although Verner moved back to England in 1880, he returned to Canada from time to time and continued to send paintings back to be exhibited by the Royal Canadian Academy, Ontario Society of Artists and Art Association of Montreal, while also working to build up interest in his work in England, broadening his market considerably.
In England, Verner painted variations on themes drawn from his previous Canadian oeuvre, adding new or different elements and subtracting others, much as a composer would rework the chords to make new musical arrangements. This lot was inspired by his earlier sketches drawn from life of Sioux teepees that date to 1867 (Collection of the National Gallery of Canada,) and his major canvas of 1877, “A Prairie Sunset,” in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. (1)
(1) Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West. (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84.
Related Works:
reproduced in Murray page 43
Estimate: $70,000—90,000
SIOUX ENCAMPMENT AT SUNSET, 1881
oil on canvas
signed and dated
24 x 42 in — 61 x 106.7 cm
Provenance:
The Pagurian Collection, Toronto, ON;
Collection of Sir Christopher and Lady Ondaatje
Exhibited:
Possibly exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Jul 1881, no. 145, as Sioux Teepees (Sunset).
Literature:
Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Verner, Painter of the Canadian West (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84 repro. col.
Note:
Although Verner moved back to England in 1880, he returned to Canada from time to time and continued to send paintings back to be exhibited by the Royal Canadian Academy, Ontario Society of Artists and Art Association of Montreal, while also working to build up interest in his work in England, broadening his market considerably.
In England, Verner painted variations on themes drawn from his previous Canadian oeuvre, adding new or different elements and subtracting others, much as a composer would rework the chords to make new musical arrangements. This lot was inspired by his earlier sketches drawn from life of Sioux teepees that date to 1867 (Collection of the National Gallery of Canada,) and his major canvas of 1877, “A Prairie Sunset,” in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. (1)
(1) Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West. (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1984), 84.
Related Works:
reproduced in Murray page 43
Estimate: $70,000—90,000
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