Notable Sales
La boulangère, Baie St-Paul, 1922
76.8 x 82.2 cm
Inscriptions
signed, ‘Clarence A. Gagnon’ (lower right)Provenance
Lt. Col Gustave Rainville, Montreal
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
The Collection of Mitzi & Mel Dobrin, Montreal
Fraser Brothers Auction House, Montreal via Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, 1986
Private collection, Quebec
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Private collection, Westmount, Quebec
Exhibitions
Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, 40th Annual Spring Exhibition, March 16-April 14, 1923, no. 95.
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, Paintings and Sculptures by British, Swedish and Canadian and International Graphic Art, August 25-September 8, 1923, no. 169.
Wembley, England, British Empire Exhibition, Canadian Selection of Fine Arts, April 23-October, 1924, no. 64.
Montreal, Simpson’s Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by a Group of Montreal Artists, April 5-24, 1926, no. 33.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, August 9 -September 30, 1926, no. 2.
Québec, Musée de la province de Québec, Clarence Gagnon Memorial Exhibition, June 16-July 16, 1942; Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, August 7-September 30, 1942; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, October-November, 1942; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, November 1942- January 1943.
Montreal, Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Clarence Gagnon Exhibition, September 9-20, 1975, no. 27.
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Homage to Walter Klinkhoff, September 12-26, 1998, no. 10.
Quebec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942 : Dreaming the Landscape, June 7 - September 10, 2006; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, October 6, 2006 - January 7, 2007, no. 91.Literature
Canadian Homes and Gardens, Toronto, June 1927, 106.
Francois Laroche, “Un grand artiste. Clarence Gagnon,” Revue populaire (Montréal) 30, no. 3 (march 1937) : 5, 36-37 [reproduced].
“Art and Artist,” The Globe and Mail, 29 April 1926, 10.
“Clarence Gagnon’s Art Subject of Exhibit,” The Gazette, 1 August 1942, 3.
Hugues de Jouvancourt, Clarence Gagnon (Montréal: Édition de la Frégate, 1970), 117 [reproduced].
Robert Derome, “Exposition Clarence A. Gagnon, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff (Montréal), du 9 au 20 septembre 1975”. Typescript with exhibition checklist (Montreal, 1975), 7.
Rene Boissay, Clarence Gagnon (LaPrairie: Edition Marcel-broquet, 1988), 97 [reproduced].
Hélène Sicotte et al., Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942 : Dreaming the Landscape (exhibition catalogue) (Québec: Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 2006), 161 [reproduced].
