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Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

May 29, 2007

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LOT 28

Lot 28

NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER

NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Lot 28 Details
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER

CHURCH, AUSTIN, NEAR MAGOG, P.Q.

oil on panel
signed
16.0" x 18.0" (40.0 cm x 45.0 cm)

Estimate $15,000-$20,000

Realised: $32,200
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Literature:

Barbara Meadowcroft, Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters, Montreal, 1999, page 127 and plate 24.

Note:

Meadowcroft writes that Collyer’s subjects are primarily the farms, orchards and fields of the Eastern Townships where she had her summer home. The artist often makes a church or barn the focal point of the composition. Meadowcroft quotes Robert Ayer’s review of the artist’s 1964 solo exhibition at the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery: “She loves ripeness, the fatness of the land, the snugness of the villages in the hills, and celebrates them in full-bodied colour and easy, comfortable rhythms.”

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