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Philip Henry Howard Surrey 1910 - 1990
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 CAD
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Description
- Philip Henry Howard Surrey
- Grosvenor Street at Night
- signed lower left
- oil on board
- 101.5 by 152.5 cm.
- 40 by 60 in.
Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Philip Surrey (1910-1990) Retrospective Exhibition, Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, 2004, p. 2
Catalogue Note
At Surrey's induction into the Order of Canada in 1982, his citation noted that he had been "the leading exponent of urban landscape painting in Canada."
It continued:
His Montreal street scenes convey an emotional vision of the modern city, with its anonymous crowds and individual solitudes. His expressive style and a poetic humanitarianism constitute a unique contribution to Canadian art.