Lot 69
  • 69

David Brown Milne 1882 - 1953

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 CAD
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Description

  • David Brown Milne
  • CHANNEL THROUGH THE REEDS
  • signed and dated upper right David Milne 1939; titled and dated three times Channel Through the Reeds, 1939 by Douglas Duncan on the back of the painting, the mat and the backing.
  • watercolour on paper
  • 25.4 by 35.6 cm.
  • 10 by 14 in.

Provenance

Douglas Duncan, Picture Loan Society, Toronto

Mrs. Grant Dexter, Ottawa, 1941

Private Collection, Toronto, c. 1970

Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition of Artists Paraskeva Clark, Carl Schaefer, Caven Atkins and David Milne, 1939

Literature

David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, 306.115, illustrated in black and white, p. 689

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. It is hinged at the top.
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Catalogue Note

This fine watercolour was painted at Six Mile Lake.