Artist Edwin Headley Holgate
Title Nude, Artist's Wife
Media charcoal on paper
Size 17.25 x 11.25 in. / 43.8 x 28.6 cm.
Frame Size 25.5 x 18.75 x 1 in.
Sold $4,500
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Notes
signed lower left; bears title on gallery label verso; framed
Reference
illustrated on page 149, cat. No. 130 in Edwin Holgate by Rosalind Pepall and Brian Foss, published by Montreal Museum in Fine Arts, 2005; exhibition label verso; also illustrated on approx. page 66 in Group of Seven Drawings by Paul Duval, published by Burns and MacEachern Limited, 1965
Provenance
Kastel Gallery, Montreal, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Edwin Headley Holgate ~ [1892-1977] Canadian CGP, CSGA, RCA
see Edwin H. Holgate, by D.Reid, N.G.C., 1976 and The Prints of Edwin Holgate, by I.Thom, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1989 for catalogue of the artist's prints; Edwin Holgate, by R.Pepall, MMFA, 2005; biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.133; Printmaking in Quebec, 1900-1950, by D.Martin, pg.96, Musee du Quebec, 1988; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.62