Lot 17
  • 17

Alfred Joseph Casson 1898 - 1992

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 CAD
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Description

  • Alfred Joseph Casson
  • OXTONGUE LAKE, OCTOBER
  • signed l.r.: A.J. CASSON; signed, titled and dated on the reverse: A.J. Casson, '21, Oxtongue Lake, October 1977
  • oil on board
  • 30.5 by 38.1 cm. 12 by 15 in.

Provenance

Roberts Gallery, Toronto

Estate of Shirley Stokes

 

Literature

Margaret Gray, Margaret Rand and Lois Steen, A.J. Casson, Toronto, 1976, p. 30

Condition

This painting is overall in very good condition. There is a small touch up to the green tree in the centre and under UV there are patches in the sky that appear to have been soiled.
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Catalogue Note

Oxtongue Lake in Algonquin Park was one of Casson's favourite sites.  When he was seventy-eight, he said I could paint Oxtongue Lake today with my eyes closed.