Lot 34
  • 34

Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté 1869 - 1937

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 CAD
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Description

  • Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté
  • PORTRAIT OF J.G. POISSON
  • signed upper left suzor-coté
  • pastel on paper
  • 27.9 by 25.4 cm.
  • 11 by 10 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto

Exhibited

Montreal, Rétrospective Suzor-Côté, Montreal School of Fine Arts, December, 1929

Literature

Hughes de Jovancourt, Suzor-Côté, Montreal, 1967, illustrated p.75

Laurier Lacroix, Light and Matter, Quebec, 2002, pp. 312-313, figures 114, 115 and 118, for photographs of the 1929 Suzor-Côté retrospective.

Condition

This pastel is in pristine condition.
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Catalogue Note

This s a portrait of the artist's nephew, Jacques, the son of Suzor-Côté's favourite sister, Alice, who married in 1895. The artist was very attached to this young man who had an international career as a tenor under the stage name Jacques Gérard. Suzor-Côté did this fine pastel in 1915 when Jacques was a teenager.