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Cover: Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002) Sous Bois II, 1958, oil on canvas, 45 x 57.5 inches

Back Cover: Brian Jones (1950 - 2008) View from the Sidewalk, c. 1982 - 83 oil on canvas, 32 x 30 inches

Lawren Stewart Harris (1885 - 1970)

House in the Ward, Winter City Painting No. 1, c. 1924 oil on canvas, 32 x 38.38 inches

Signed and on verso titled Street Scene, Winter on the Laing Galleries label

Provenance: Laing Galleries, Toronto; Volkswagen Canada, acquired from the above in 1957; Private Collection, Switzerland; Important Canadian Art, Sotheby’s Canada, May 11, 1994, lot 102; A Prestigious Corporate Collection, Canada; Heffel, November 24, 2022, lot 118

Literature: Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, City Paintings, catalogue #1, location noted as the Art Gallery of Toronto; Exploring Lawren Harris’ Masterpiece: House in the Ward, Winter, City Painting No. 1

Literature References: Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, City Paintings, catalogue #1, Art Gallery of Toronto; Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906 – 1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, page 25; Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, 2011, page 105, titled as House in the Ward, City Painting No. 1, circa 1918

Thomas John (Tom) Thomson (1877 – 1917)

Ragged Oaks, 1916 oil on panel, 8.5 x 10.5 inches

Estate stamp lower right; Estate stamp and inscribed “M. Thomson”, “134” and “23” on the reverse; inscribed with title, “Not for Sale” and “16” on a label on the reverse

Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound; Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto; Fraser Thomson, Seattle and Outremont, Québec; Ina (Mrs. Fraser) Thomson, Seattle, by descent; Acquired by an Important Private Collection, 1971; Cowley Abbott, An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art – June 8th, 2023, Lot 116; Private Collection

Exhibited: An Exhibition of Paintings by the late Tom Thomson, The Arts Club, Montréal, travelling to the Art Association of Montréal, March 1st – April 12th, 1919, no. 16; The Art of Tom Thomson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, travelling to Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Montréal Museum of Fine Arts; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, October 30th – September 4th, 1972, no. 101; Collectors Canada: Selections from a Toronto Private Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, travelling to the Musée du Québec, Québec City; Vancouver Art Gallery; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, May 14th, 1988 – May 7th, 1989, no. 56; Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, travelling to the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, October 19th, 2011 – October 28th, 2012, no. 29; Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven, Vancouver Art Gallery, travelling to the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Gallery of Hamilton, October 30th, 2015 – September 25th, 2016; Pop Up Museum, Canadian Friends of the Isreal Museum, August 9th, 2017; Collectors’ Treasures, Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montréal, October 19th – November 2nd, 2019, no. 53; Tom Thomson (Annual Loan Exhibition), Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montréal, November 5th – 19th, 2022, no. 19

Literature: Fraser Thomson, Letter to Blodwen Davies, May 19th, 1930, Blodwen Davies Collection, C-4579, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa; Joan Murray, The Art of Tom Thomson, Toronto, 1971, reproduced page 85; Harold Town and David P. Silcox, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm, Toronto, 1977, reproduced page 160; 2017 edition, reproduced page 154; Dennis Reid, Collector’s Canada: Selections from a Toronto Private Collection, Toronto, 1988, no. 56, reproduced page 58; Joan Murray, Tom Thomson: Trees, Toronto, 1999, pages 88-89, reproduced page 89; Ian C. Dejardin, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, London, 2011, reproduced page 96; Ian C. Dejardin and Sarah Milroy, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, London, 2011, reproduced page 96; Ian Thom, et al., Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven, Vancouver/London, 2015, reproduced page 136; Joan Murray, Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné (2016): inventory no. 1916.86; Tom Thomson (Annual Loan Exhibition), Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montréal, 2022, no. 19, reproduced page 22

David Brown Milne (1882 - 1953)

City Rain, 1911 - 1912 oil on canvas, 18.25 x 15.25 inches

On verso titled on the gallery labels

Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto; Private Collection, Canada; Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; Private Collection, Ontario; Heffel, May 24, 2017, Lot 110; Private Collection, Ontario

Literature: David P. Silcox, Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne, 1996, page 34; David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume 1: 1882 – 1928, 1998, reproduced page 67, catalogue #104.3

Exhibited: Marlborough-Godard, Toronto, 1972, titled as City Rain, New York and dated circa 1911, catalogue #3; Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, 1994, catalogue #2

Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002)

Écume, 1957

oil on canvas, 25 x 32 inches

1957.010H.1957

Signed ‘Riopelle 57’ front lower right

Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002)

Sous Bois II, 1958

oil on canvas, 45 x 57.5 inches

1958.089H.1958

Signed ‘Riopelle’ front lower right

Exhibitions: 1959, Kunsthalle, Bâle, cat. n° 104; 1959, Musée des beaux-arts de Neuchâtel, Suisse; Anne-Marie Bouchard, editor, Passion privée: L’art moderne du Québec de la collection Pierre Lassonde, Musée nationale des beaux-arts du Québec, 2015, October 29, 2015 to May 23, 2016,reproduced on page 208

Arthur Lismer (1885 - 1969)

Georgian Bay, c.1956

double sided, oil on aluminium, 16 x 20 inches

Signed ‘A Lismer 56’ front lower right

Arthur Lismer (1885 - 1969)

Georgian Bay (verso), c.1956 double sided, oil on aluminium, 16 x 20 inches

James Edward Hervey (J.E.H.) MacDonald (1873 - 1932)

On Mongoose Creek, Algoma, 1919 oil on board, 8.38 x 10.5 inches

Signed and dated 1919 on verso signed twice, titled, dated and inscribed Mongoose Creek, Algoma

Franklin Carmichael (1890 - 1945)

Clouds, La Cloche Hills, 1939 oil on panel, 10 x 12 inches

Signed ‘Frank Carmichael’ lower right; signed and dated; signed, titled and inscribed by artist on the reverse; titled and dated to gallery labels on the reverse

William

Volleyball, 1977

mixed media on board, 14.75 x 12.75 inches

Provenance: Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto, ON; Loch Gallery, Toronto, ON; Private Collection, Ontario; Waddingtons, May 29, 2025, Lot 321

(W.K.) Kurelek (1927 - 1977)

Jean Dallaire (1916 - 1965)

Jeune Femme au Parapluie, 1957

oil on cardboard, 8 x 6 inches

Signed ‘Dallaire’ front lower right

Jack Hamilton Bush Festive Spread / Mabel’s Release acrylic on canvas, Signed, titled and

Bush (1909 - 1977)

Release, 19 to 22 December 1968

17.5 x 116 inches and dated on verso

Ivan Kenneth Eyre (1935 - 2022)

Man on the Bridge, 1963 oil on canvas, 26 x 34 inches

Signed ‘Eyre’ bottom right; signed ‘I. Eyre’ on verso

Provenance: Private Collection, Winnipeg; Private Collection, Winnipeg

Exhibited: “Ivan Eyre: Personal Mythologies”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, travelling to Winnipeg Art Gallery; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; The Edmonton Art Gallery; London Regional Art Gallery, 28 September 1988‒21 January 1990, no. 5

Literature: Terrence Heath, “Ivan Eyre: Personal Mythologies”, Winnipeg, 1988, no. 5, reproduced page 33; Donalda Johnson, “Eyre With Honour”, Winnipeg, 1994, page 8; “Ivan Eyre: The Paintings”, Assiniboine Park, 2004, pages 18-19; Denis Cooley, Amy Karlinsky and Mary Reid, “Figure Ground: The Paintings and Drawings of Ivan Eyre”, Winnipeg, 2005, pages 17-18

Ivan Kenneth Eyre (1935 - 2022)

Umber Concave, c. 1971

acrylic on canvas, 62 x 62 inches

Ivan Kenneth Eyre (1935 - 2022) Spring Brocade, 2008

acrylic on canvas, 48 x 40 inches signed ‘Ivan Eyre’ bottom right

Brian Jones (1950 - 2008)

View from the Sidewalk, c. 1982 - 83 oil on canvas, 32 x 30 inches signed ‘Brian Jones’ lower right

Provenance: Loch Gallery; Brian Jones estate; Private Collection

Notes: Susanne Jones” “Boy on Sidewalk - A “Neighbours” style painting from the height of the London era, c. 198283, this oil on canvas was inspired by a black and white family snapshot of a boy in front of Brian’s childhood home at 33 Stone Avenue in Chatham. This is one of the few paintings in which the human figure ... and the surrounding landscape ... are both equally distorted and stylized”

John Goodwin Lyman (1886 - 1967)

Plage Laurentides (Bathing Beach, Lake Ouimet, Laurentians), c. 1939

oil on panel, 13 x 18 inches

Signed ‘Lyman’ lower right

Provenance: Private Collection; Galerie Valentin, Montreal; Private Collection, Toronto

Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at the Première exposition des Indépendants, Galerie municipale, Palais Montcalm, Quebec City from April 26–May 3, 1941, by Marie-Alain Couturier and inaugurated by Robert Lapalme, listed as #30 “Plage Laurentide”; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, “Some Modern Canadians”, August 1 - August 30, 1953; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse, May 8 –September 7, 2014, traveling to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, October 4, 2014 – January 4, 2015

Illustrated: Lucie Dorais et al., Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2014, Catalogue #110; A.K. Prakash, Canadian Art: Selected Masters from Private Collections, 2003, reproduced page 164