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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

May 29, 2007

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LOT 186

Lot 186

JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.

JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
Lot 186 Details
JAMES WILLIAMSON GALLOWAY MACDONALD, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.

GOLD OF THE RAM

oil and lucite on canvas
signed and dated ‘60
24.0" x 2834.0" (60.0 cm x 71.9 cm)

Estimate $5,000-$7,000

Realised: $23,000
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto

Literature:

Joyce Zemans, Jock Macdonald: The Inner Landscape, A Retrospective, Toronto, 1981, page 234, reproduced.
Joyce Zemans, Jock Macdonald, Ottawa, 1985, pages 27-28.

Exhibited:

Jock Macdonald: The Inner Landscape, A Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 4-May 17, 1981, no.146. Also shown at Art Gallery of Windsor, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery.

Note:

Zemans (1985) writes that Macdonald’s quest was “to discover an expression that would reflect the consciousness of the time in which he lived. It was a search not for pleasure but for knowledge.” The paintings from his last four years represent “...the legacy of a unique artist who has wrestled with and understood the challenge of painting in the twentieth century.”

Macdonald spent the summer of 1960 teaching at the Doon School of Art near Kitchener and returned to the Ontario College of Art in the fall.

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