Lake in Laurentide Park

Monotype

2 x 2 3/4 in
5.1 x 7 cm

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This painting is presently on view at our Montreal gallery

$1,200

Inscriptions

stamped in red ink, 'Atelier / Gagnon' (lower left); titled and numbered by Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, ‘Lake in Laurentide Park / 1188’ (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

Clarence Gagnon has captured a lake in the rich coloration of a Quebec autumn. In Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942 : Dreaming the Landscape, Gagnon is quoted describing the benefit of the monotype “it gives the effect of a watercolour and the broadness of the brushwork of oils with great brilliancy and transparency of the tones which cannot be had with watercolours and oils. Besides, it can be retouched with pastels [...] to heighten and accentuate the color.”[1] The text continues to describe in some detail his process. The summary would be that each is very much a unique work.

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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), 184.