Les foins (The Hayfield), 1901

Oil on canvas

24 x 36 in
61 x 91.4 cm

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Provenance

The Artist
Philippe‒Auguste Choquette, 1901
Fernand Choquette, 1948
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Acquired by the present Private Collection, May 1975

Exhibitions

Louis Morency Gallery, Quebec City, June 1901
“Historische Malerei Kanadas in OKanada”, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, 5 December 1982–30 January 1983, no. 29
“Kanadische Malerei 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”, Instituts fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, 9 February-13 March 1983, no. 29
“Collector's Canada: Selections from a Toronto Private Collection,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; travelling to Musée du Québec, Quebec City; Vancouver Art Gallery; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 14 May 1988‒7 May 1989, no. 44
“Ozias Leduc: An Art of Love and Reverie”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; travelling to Musée du Québec, Québec City; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 22 February 1996‒15 January 1997, no. 95
“Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860‒1918”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 18 June‒27 September 2009
“Forging the Path: The Forerunners (1870‒1920),” McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, 2 October 2010‒23 January 2011
“Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven”, Vancouver Art Gallery; travelling to the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Gallery of Hamilton, 30 October 2015‒25 September 2016
“Chefs‒d'œuvres de l'exposition ‘Embracing Canada’”, Eric Klinkhoff Gallery, 22 October‒5 November 2016

Literature

Jean Rémuna [pseud. Arsène Bessette], ‘M. Osias Leduc’, “Le Canada français”, 3 May 1901, page 2
‘Belles peintures’, “L’Union des Cantons de l’Est,” 14 June 1901, page 2
Arthur Lemay, ‘L’œuvre du peintre Osias Leduc. Un artiste du terroir à St-Hilaire de Rouville’, “Le Terroir”, vol. 8, nos. 11 and 12, March/ April 1928, reproduced pages 186–187
Laurier Lacroix, “Ozias Leduc the Draughtsman”, Montreal, 1978, no. 46, reproduced page 158
Janice Seline, ‘The Real and the Ideal: Progress and the Landscapes of Ozias Leduc’, “Ozias Leduc the Draughtsman”, Sir George Williams Art Galleries, Montreal, 1978, pages 107–123
“Historische Malerei Kanadas in OKanada”, Berlin, 1982, no. 29, page 59, reproduced page 61
“Kanadische Malerei 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”, Stuttgart, 1983, no. 29, reproduced page 61 as “Les Foins,” 1901
Dennis Reid, “Collector's Canada: Selections from a Toronto Private Collection”, Toronto, 1988, no. 4, reproduced page 50
Barbara Ann Winters, “The Work and Thought of Ozias Leduc in the Intellectual and Social Context of his Time”, (M.A. Thesis, University of Victoria, 1990), figure 43, pages 154–155
Arlene Margaret Gehmacher, “The Mythologization of Ozias Leduc, 1890–1954”, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1995, figure 14, pages 149–154
Laurier Lacroix, “Les foins, Ozias Leduc: A Work of Love and Reverie”, Montreal, 1996, no. 122, reproduced page 151
Joan Murray, “Home Truths,” Toronto, 1998, plate 29, reproduced page 51
Joan Murray, “Celebrating Home: A Collection of Canada’s Best-Loved Painters,” Toronto, 2008, upaginated, reproduced
Pierre Lambert, “Ozias Leduc : Le peintre en quête de beauté”, Saint- Sauveur, 2013, reproduced page 61
Hilliard T. Goldfarb, “Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918”, Montreal, 2009, no. 112, reproduced page 200
Katerina Atanassova, “Forging the Path: The Forerunners (1870-1920)”, Kleinburg, 2010, reproduced page 13
Pierre Lambert, “Ozias Leduc : Le peintre en quête de beauté”, Saint- Sauveur, 2013, reproduced page 61
Ian Thom, et. al, “Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven”, Vancouver/London, 2015, reproduced page 155 “Chefs-d’œuvres de l’exposition ‘Embracing Canada’", Eric Klinkhoff Gallery, 2016, reproduced page 5