The Old Cedar, near Beaupré, 1896

Oil on canvas

15 x 18 in
38.1 x 45.7 cm

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. AK0842
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. 842

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This painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery

$30,000

Inscriptions

signed, ‘MAURICE CULLEN/ 96’ (lower right)

Provenance

Private collection, Westmount, Quebec

Exhibitions

Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) Retrospective Exhibition, September 16 - 30, 2000, no. 32.

The Old Cedar, near Beaupré, 1896 is an important testimony to Maurice Cullen’s introduction to a Canadian audience of the concepts of impressionism he imported from France. His brush dances over the picture plane, inviting the sunlight to create this celebration of the landscape bordering the river. “Trained in the school of the great impressionists, Monet, Pissarro and Sisley, he adapted their approach to suit another climate and another hemisphere” [1], Cullen’s stepson Robert Pilot wrote in 1954.

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Footnote:

[1] Robert Pilot, “Maurice Cullen, R.C.A”, The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec, July-September 1954, Vol. LXXX, No.3, 140.