Notable Sales
Landscape, St. Laurent, Île d’Orléans, 1938 or 1939
97.8 x 121.9 cm
Provenance
Galerie L’Art Français, Montreal.
Jacques Genest Collection, Montreal.
The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin.
Exhibitions
Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, Fifty-seventh Spring Exhibition, March 20th - April 14th, 1940, no. 116, as Landscape-St. Laurent, Island of Orleans.
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, Paintings and Water Colours, August 15th - September 2, 1940, as Landscape, St. Laurent, Isle d’Orleans.
Quebec, Musée de la province de Québec, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, A.R.C.A., Adrien Hébert, R.C.A., Henri Hébert, R.C.A., Edwin Headley Holgate, R.C.A., May 3 - May 31, 1944, cat. no. 15 as Saint-Laurent, Ile d’Orléans.
Montreal, The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Galerie IV, Exposition Marc-Aurèle Fortin, December 12 - December 19, 1958, n. 50?.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, April 17th - May 17th, 1964 and Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, May 22 - June 14, 1964, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, no. 64, as Paysage du St. Laurent.
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1988-1970). Retrospective Exhibition, September 16th - September 30th 2006, no. 10, ill. cat., as Île d’Orléans.
Literature
Anonymous, “Le Salon du Printemps’’, La Revue populaire, vol. 33, no. 5, May 1940, p. 7 (ill. p. 7).
Musée de la province de Québec, Exposition de Marc-Aurèle Fortin, A.R.C.A., Adrien Hébert, R.C.A., Henri Hébert, R.C.A., Edwin Headley Holgate, R.C.A., Quebec, Musée de la Province de Québec, 1944, p. 3.
Anonymous, « Vieux Village à l'île d'Orléans », La Presse, December 23, 1958, p. 42 (ill.).
Ostiguy, Jean-René, Fortin. Une exposition itinérante organisée par la Galerie nationale du Canada, Ottawa, La Galerie, 1964, p. 21.
Robert, Guy, Marc-Aurèle Fortin: l'homme à l'œuvre, Ottawa, Éditions internationales Alain Stanké Ltée, 1976, p. 153 (ill.).
Robert, Guy, Fortin, l'oeuvre et l'homme, Montreal, Éditions France-Amérique, 1982, p. 83 (ill.).
Trépanier, Esther, Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888-1970), Retrospective Exhibition, Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, 2006, 2e reproduced in color, frontispiece (ill.).
