Maison de ferme de la région de Baie St. Paul

Woodcut enhanced with gouache

3 1/8 x 4 1/2 in
8 x 11.3 cm

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This painting is presently on view at our Montreal gallery

$2,500

Inscriptions

stamped in red ink, 'Atelier / Gagnon' (lower right); inscribed, titled, numbered, and certified by Lucile Rodier Gagnon, ‘bois gravé rehausse [sic] de / gouache / maison de ferme de la / region [sic] de Baie St Paul. / 936 / Lucile Rodier Gagnon.’ (verso, Clarence A. Gagnon Inventory label)

Provenance

Estate of the Artist

Mrs. Lucile Rodier Gagnon, widow of the artist

Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal

Private collection, Westmount, Quebec

By descent to the present private collection, Westmount, Quebec

The composition is classic Clarence Gagnon, the perspective from above looking down toward Baie St Paul in the Gouffre River Valley and the hills rising in the background. According to Hélène Sicotte, Clarence Gagnon experimented first with the medium of woodcut around 1917. Subsequently his intention was to illustrate Le Grand Silence blanc with 75 compositions. Apparently, around 1926, “he was obliged to abandon the woodcut technique, having been unable to find a suitable high-quality hardwood in France.”[1] Gagnon then pursued the medium of the monotype.

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Footnotes:

[1] Hélène Sicotte & Michèle Grandbois, Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942 : Dreaming the Landscape (Québec: Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 2006), 181.