Lot 79
  • 79

Emily Geraldine Coonan 1885 - 1971

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 CAD
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Description

  • Emily Geraldine Coonan
  • Still Life
  • 1942

    signed lower left E. COONAN; titled and dated on a label on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 45.8 by 53.3 cm.
  • 18 1/8 by 21 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto

Catalogue Note

Coonan was a member of Montreal's Beaver Hall Group and was one of the first women artists invited to exhibit with the Group of Seven.  She studied under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal and was a star pupil.  Coonan greatly admired the work of James Wilson Morrice, whose style greatly influenced her.