Frederick Horsman Varley 1881 - 1969

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 CAD

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Description

Frederick Horsman Varley
The Flower Mountain
signed lower right; titled, dated c.1962 and Varley Inventory (no. 1052) on the reverse
oil on canvasboard
30 by 38 cm.
12 by 15 in.

Provenance

Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, British Columbia

Catalogue Note

This fine panel is similar to several others that Varley painted of the mountains around Kootenay Lake in southeast British Columbia. He was genuinely enthralled by the scene of lake and mountain there. By a generous use of turquoise, which he considered one of the primary colours and a spiritual colour too, he is indicating how much the scene there affected him.