Estimated Price:

CAD1,200,000 - CAD1,600,000

Realised Price:

CAD2,808,000

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"Lawren Stewart Harris 1885 - 1970 Canadian oil on canvas Houses, St. Patrick Street" "32 1/2 x 40 1/4 inches 82.5 x 102.2 centimeters signed and dated 1922 and on verso titled on the CNE label and the Art Gallery of Ontario label Literature:Lawren Harris, Contrasts, A Book of Verse, 1922, pages 36 and 57 Lawren Harris, Art as an Expression of the Value of its Day, National Archives of Canada, Lawren Harris fonds, Mg 30 D28 volume 2 Canadian National Exhibition of Paintings and International Graphic Art, Toronto, 1923, reproduced page 29, listed page 30 Lawren Harris, Paintings 1910 - 1948, the Art Gallery of Toronto, 1948, listed page 33 Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906 - 1930, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, reproduced page 121 David P. Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, 2003, the 1925 Rous & Mann print produced from an ink drawing of this painting reproduced page 24 and listed page 411 Provenance:Mrs. E.F. Ely, Toronto Charles S. Band, oronto Estate of Helen E. Band, Toronto Exhibited:Canadian National Exhibition of Paintings and International Graphic Art, Toronto, August 25 - September 8, 1923, catalogue #178 The Art Gallery of Toronto, Lawren Harris, Paintings 1910 - 1948, October - November, 1948, catalogue #24 David B. Findlay Galleries, New York City, Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Band, A Loan Exhibition on the Occasion of the Celebration and Centennial of Canadian Confederation, May 1 - October 4, 1967, traveling to the Albany Institute of History and Art, Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, catalogue #15 Art Gallery of Ontario, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906 - 1930, January 14 - February 26, 1978, catalogue #99 For full cataloguing, text and images in PDF format, please click here. "