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Œuvres d'art
Edwin HolgateThe Gravel Pit, 19651892-1977Oil on panel8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inThis painting is presently on view at our Montreal gallery
21.6 x 26.7 cm$20,000Inscriptions
signed with monogram, 'EH' (lower left); titled, signed and dated, ‘The Gravel Pit / E. Holgate / 1965’ (verso)Provenance
Artist
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private collection, Montreal
By descent to the present private collection, Westmount, Quebec
This is a fine landscape of Holgate’s, one most certainly painted near his Laurentian Quebec home at Morin Heights.
Edwin Holgate was one of the catalysts to Montreal's Beaver Hall group of artists and, later, the eighth member of the Group of Seven. The Boston Fine Arts Museum has an important collection of woodblock prints by Holgate. As A.J. Casson and A.Y. Jackson, fellow members of the Group of Seven whose careers included the post WWll era, Holgate continued his interest in the Canadian landscape tradition of which he was a pioneer.1sur 4