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Current bid: $8,000 CAD
Bidding History
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325569 27-Oct-2022 03:42:15 PM $8,000

846799 27-Oct-2022 12:23:28 PM $7,500 AutoBid

32080 27-Oct-2022 12:23:28 PM $7,000

846799 13-Oct-2022 05:36:33 PM $6,500

32080 13-Oct-2022 05:28:28 PM $6,000 AutoBid

846799 13-Oct-2022 05:28:28 PM $5,500

32080 11-Oct-2022 11:54:22 AM $5,000 AutoBid

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 06:58:23

LOT 524

ARCA CSPWC G7 OSA
1888 - 1949
Canadian

Early Buildings at Eldorado, Great Bear Lake N.W.T.
oil on board
signed and inscribed Great Bear Lake N.W.T. and on verso titled and dated March 1939
10 x 12 in, 25.4 x 30.5 cm

Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 CAD

Sold for: $10,000

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PROVENANCE
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Acquired from the above by Carl French, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto


Carl French, the original owner of this work and Morning in the Gulch at Eldorado Radium Mine on Great Bear Lake in the N.W.T., lot 523 in this sale, worked directly with famed prospector Gilbert LaBine as Treasurer for Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd. LaBine was renowned in twentieth-century mining due in a large part to his mine in the Northwest Territories on the shores of Great Bear Lake. Its importance stems from LaBine’s 1930 discovery of a rich deposit of pitchblende, from which radium and uranium can be refined. LaBine’s successes at Eldorado and the pristine northern surroundings prompted him to welcome artists to the area to capture its rugged beauty. Most notably, these artists included Group of Seven members A.Y. Jackson and Franz Johnston.

The majority of Johnston’s work from this region of the North was produced around 1939, with this work being specifically dated to March of that year. Here, Johnston captures dazzling northern light dappled across buildings that likely housed members of Eldorado’s mining crew.

Carl French’s private collection of Johnston’s work from these journeys also included the striking Great Bear Lake, sold by Heffel in December of 2021.


All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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