Kenneth Lochead, Colour Rotation, 1964.
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Consignor Canadian Fine Art’s Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art features exceptional works by Canada’s celebrated historical, post-war and contemporary artists, with examples spanning nearly 150 years of Canada’s history. On the cover of the auction catalogue is A.J. Casson’s Storm in the Cloche Hills, an oil painting which the artist identified as “one of the best” he created of rural Ontario. The moody landscape, with an auction estimate of $60,000–80,000, dates to 1951, a period when Casson painted in an increasingly abstract manner. Featured in the Ontario Society of Artists 79th Annual Spring Exhibition and the Canadian National Exhibition showing of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Storm in the Cloche Hills has not been shown to the public since these 1951 exhibitions. Fellow Group of Seven painter A.Y. Jackson’s Ungava Bay will be offered in the live auction, with an estimate of $70,000–90,000. The oil on panel serves as the sketch for a major canvas, Labrador Coast, which is part of Hart House’s permanent collection at the University of Toronto.
