Inscriptions
signed, ‘B Des Clayes’ (lower right)Provenance
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private collection, Town of Mount Royal, Quebec
She exhibited annually without interruption at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts at the Art Association of Montreal’s Spring Exhibitions from 1912-1941, where on two occasions, that is in 1916 and again in 1919, she was awarded The Jessie Dow Prize. This was a prestigious award offered at the AAM from 1908 and for 42 years, with the selection made by a jury, sponsored by, as one would assume, a Miss Dow.