Artwork for Sale
Jour de boucherie, Baie St. Paul, 1923 (circa)
Oil on panel
5 x 7 in
12.7 x 17.8 cm
12.7 x 17.8 cm
This painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery
CAD 50,000
Inscriptions
titled and dated by Lucile Rodier Gagnon on her inventory label, ‘Jour de boucherie, Baie St. Paul (vers 1923)’ and numbered ‘582’ (verso)Provenance
Estate of the artist, Lucile Rodier Gagnon Inventory No. 582, as Jour de boucherie, Baie St. Paul
Continental Galleries, Montreal
The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin
Exhibitions
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Clarence Gagnon Retrospective Exhibition, September 1975, no. 26.6.
In “Jour de boucherie, Baie-Saint-Paul,” circa 1923 (#8), the glowing fire echoes the pig's blood on the snow on a bitterly cold day. This unique rustic scene reminds us that while Gagnon was a keen observer of nature far from modernity and industrialization, he was just as close an observer of people, as later confirmed so brilliantly by his illustrations for Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine.
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Michèle Grandbois, “Clarence Gagnon Master of Small Landscape Paintings,” in The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin, edited by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery (Montreal/Toronto: Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, 2020), 53-54.
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Michèle Grandbois, “Clarence Gagnon Master of Small Landscape Paintings,” in The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin, edited by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery (Montreal/Toronto: Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, 2020), 53-54.
