Été de la St Martin, Baie St. Paul, 1922 (circa)
Oil on panel
4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in
12 x 18 cm
12 x 18 cm
This painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery
$50,000
Inscriptions
signed with the artist's thumbprint (verso, upper right); titled, dated, numbered, and certified by Lucile Rodier Gagnon, ‘Été de la St. Martin. / Baie st. Paul. (vers 1922.) / 320 / Lucile Rodier Gagnon.’ (verso, Clarence A. Gagnon Inventory label)Provenance
Estate of the Artist
Mrs. Lucile Rodier Gagnon, widow of the artist
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Continental Galleries, Montreal
Private collection, Westmount, Quebec
By descent to the present private collection, Westmount, Quebec
Été de la St. Martin, Baie St. Paul demonstrates Gagnon’s genius at painting sensitively the light and colour of Baie St Paul. It is due to paintings of this quality that the name Clarence Gagnon is synonymous Gagnon’s name is synonymous with the Charlevoix region. In this painting, a house is perched above Baie St. Paul in the foreground, with a perspective looking northward toward the hills that rise beyond the town. These hills lead to St. Hilarion and Cap aux Corbeaux to the northeast, on the right. The village of Baie St. Paul proper lies just outside the frame, on the flat plain in the middle ground to the right.
