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Artworks
Clarence A. GagnonFerme du rang Saint-Laurent, Baie Saint-Paul, 1924 (circa)1881-1942SoldInscriptions
titled and dated by Lucile Rodier Gagnon on her inventory label, ‘Ferme du rang Saint-Laurent, Baie St. Paul (vers 1924)’ and numbered ‘327’ (verso); thumbprint (verso, upper right)Provenance
Estate of the artist, Lucile Rodier Gagnon Inventory No. 327, as Ferme du rang Saint-Laurent, Baie St. Paul
The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin
Exhibitions
Kitchener-Waterloo, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Clarence Gagnon, RCA, LL.D, 1881- 1942, January 7 - February 6, 1966.The small snow scenes show the painter's impressive skill in chiselling shapes with light, which can also illuminate the entire painted surface, as in "Ferme du rang Saint-Laurent, Baie-Saint-Paul," circa 1924 (#9). The same location would later inspire other views, including a depiction from farther away, the superb pochade that is part of the Thomson Collection in Toronto. [1]
[1] Painted during the same period, this pochade from the Thomson Collection (PC0853) was also listed in the inventory prepared in Westmount in 1942 (#75) by Lucile Rodier Gagnon.
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Michèle Grandbois, “Clarence Gagnon Master of Small Landscape Paintings,” in The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin, edited by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery (Montreal/Toronto: Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, 2020), 53-54.