Lot 20
  • 20

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald 1890 - 1956

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 CAD
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Description

  • Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald
  • Red Jug On A Window Frame
  • signed lower right L.L. FitzGerald; dated in pencil by the artist July 1941 on the reverse
  • watercolour
  • 61 by 45.7 cm.
  • 24 by 18 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature

Patricia E. Bovey, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, (1890 - 1956), The Development of an Artist, Winnipeg, 1978,  p. 69, footnote no. 75

Condition

This work is in excellent condition with apparent issues under UV.
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Catalogue Note

FitzGerald produced a number of works in different media using the theme of a jug on a window sill. This version shows the artist's formal interest in volumes and planes. The bulk of the cylindrical three trunks provide a contrast to the more delicate branches reaching out from them. The roundness of the fat jug is established by a build up of intensity in colour. The whole effect is one of great sensitivity and fragility.

Lawren Harris, in 1945, wrote about the artist's water colours in a letter to Harry McCurry at the National Gallery of Canada: "They are very delicate, very subtle and one has to view them for quite a time before their quality, utter sympathy and underlying structure begin to emerge. These works are caviar - very simple but of an extraordinary subtlety - I think as distinctive and beautiful as anything done anywhere."