Tupper Street Girl Drying Hair, 1960 (circa)
Oil on canvas board
16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
40.6 x 30.5 cm
This painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery
$19,000
Inscriptions
signed, 'JOHN LITTLE' (lower right); artist's sketches and inscribed, 'KITCHEN PORCH 3rd floor -- / ACROSS the lane from / 2066 TUPPER STREET' (verso, on the board)Provenance
Ladies' Committee, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, MontrealPrivate collection, Ontario
Expositions
Montreal, Ladies' Committee Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as Tupper Street Girl Drying Hair at $100.00.Shortly after John and Lorraine were married, they moved into an apartment on Tupper St. in downtown Montreal, close to where some might remember the Montreal Forum once stood. Even at that early stage in his career, his interest was the inner city and its inhabitants. Tupper Street Girl Drying Hair is an exquisite, colorful, and rare composition painted around 1961 from a drawing made in 1952. The work was originally sold at an exhibition and sale by the Ladies’ Committee at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, a fundraising exhibition and sale venue that many other museums also hosted.
