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This lot contains multiple Lot # 301 items displayed below FRÉDÉRIC BACK 1924 - Canadian Two Works a) Rivière Rouge, Huberdeau gouache on paper signed, dated 1948 and inscribed "Huberdeau" and on verso numbered 02136 12 x 18 in, 30.5 x 45.7 cm

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b) Rivière Rouge, Huberdeau gouache on paper signed, dated December 1948 and inscribed "Huberdeau" and on verso numbered 02078 12 5/8 x 19 in, 32.1 x 48.3 cm

Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Montreal Please note: these works are unframed. Estimate:

$2,500 ~ $3,500 CAD

Final Bid:

$2,750 CAD

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Lot # 302 LÉON BELLEFLEUR QMG 1910 - 2007 Canadian Bourrasques de mars oil on canvas, signed and dated 1986 and on verso signed, titled and dated 20 x 24 in, 50.8 x 61 cm Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal

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Léon Bellefleur studied at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal, and pursued a teaching career in the city for 25 years. In 1948 he signed the manifesto Prisme d'Yeux, formed in reponse to the more radical ideological approach of the Automatists, along with Alfred Pellan, Albert Dumouchel, Jacques de Tonnancour, Louis Archambault and others. Through his association with Prisme d'Yeux, he came to be influenced by Surrealism and the work of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró. Bellefleur's oeuvre is characterized by rich lyrical abstraction, and in his paintings, colour, movement and form dynamically combine. In 1954, Bellefleur traveled to Europe, setting up a studio in Paris where he experimented with painting techniques, working with a spatula to create dimensional effects. In 1966 he returned to Quebec permanently. Bellefleur was given a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1968, and his works have been acquired by public collections such the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Estimate:

$8,000 ~ $10,000 CAD

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$6,000 CAD

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Lot # 303 PAUL-ÉMILE BORDUAS CAS QMG RCA 1905 - 1960 Canadian Sans titre mixed media on paper, circa 1924 signed 12 x 9 1/2 in, 30.5 x 24.1 cm

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Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Literature: François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas: Biographie critique et analyse de l'oeuvre, 1978, the similar 1924 gouache on paper work entitled Les trois soeurs reproduced, unpaginated, #4, index of black and white works This work could be a study for or another version of the gouache painting entitled Les trois soeurs which is reproduced in François-Marc Gagnon's biography on Borduas. On verso, there is an unfinished pencil and watercolour study of leaves by the artist. The inscription on this study, written by a previous owner, translates from the french as "Precious souvenir from a young artist battling with life. Marguerite de Montigny Lafontaine, painter and sculptor, June 14, 1972." Estimate:

$4,500 ~ $6,500 CAD

Final Bid:

$4,250 CAD

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Lot # 304 SAMUEL BORENSTEIN CAS 1908 - 1969 Canadian French Countryside gouache on card, circa 1939 signed twice 15 x 30 in, 38.1 x 76.2 cm Provenance: Private Collection, Ontario It was Samuel Borenstein's dream to travel to Paris to visit the city's museums - most particularly to view the work of Vincent van Gogh and Chaim Soutine - and in 1939 he was able to accomplish it. Initially he lived in a small apartment in Meudon, a suburb of Paris, then spent six months in Brittany. Based in the village of Tréboul, he enjoyed the isolation, which enabled him to concentrate on his painting. Due to the impending threat of war, he returned to Canada at the end of that year. His exposure to the work he had seen in France, particularly Soutine's explosive colour and chaotic compositions, was a liberating experience for Borenstein. His work became known for its energetic, expressionist style, and his subjects were most often vivid cityscapes and rural scenes, such as this dynamic painting. Estimate:

$5,000 ~ $7,000 CAD

Starting Bid:

$4,000 CAD

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Lot # 305 YEHOUDA CHAKI 1938 - Canadian Landscape 1050 oil on canvas, circa 1979 ~ 1980 signed and on verso titled 48 x 60 in, 121.9 x 152.4 cm Provenance: Arras Gallery, New York Private Collection, Montreal

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Yehouda Chaki was born in Athens, and after living in Tel Aviv from 1945 to 1960, emigrated to Montreal in 1962. He studied at the Avni Academy in Tel Aviv, followed by the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1967 to 1989, Chaki was head of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Fine Arts at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. His work is in the permanent collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée D'art Contemporain de Montreal, the Fort Lauderdale Museum, Florida, Eretz Israel Museum, Musée de Toulon, France and the Museo de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prestigious corporate collections such as the Canadian Embassy in Argentina, the Canadian Consulate in New York, Coca-Cola Limited, Husky Oil and Gaz Metropolitain have acquired his work. Estimate:

$8,000 ~ $10,000 CAD

Final Bid:

$17,000 CAD

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Lot # 306 SERGE LEMOYNE 1941 - 1998 Canadian Sans titre (Maison series) acrylic on canvas, on verso signed and dated 1986 12 x 15 1/4 in, 30.5 x 38.7 cm Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal Please note: this work is unframed Estimate:

$4,000 ~ $6,000 CAD

Starting Bid:

$3,000 CAD

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Lot # 307 MARY FRANCES PRATT OC RCA 1935 - Canadian Orange on Tinfoil oil on canvas, signed and dated 1993 18 x 24 in, 45.7 x 61 cm Provenance: Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver

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Mary Pratt studied at Mount Allison School of Art with Alex Colville, and emerged in the 1960s in the Maritimes as a New Realist painter. Use of photography as a point of departure, a coolness of viewpoint and the depiction of subjects that were considered to be worthwhile of artistic regard simply because they existed, were characteristics of New Realism. Pratt's significance has been recognized in retrospective exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton and the London Regional Art Gallery. Her work is in numerous public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Pratt uses photography as a tool for studying the ephemeral qualities of light in her subjects, which are chosen from her immediate environment. Her method of painting is exacting - using small sable brushes and a fluid medium of turpentine and stand oil, she paints with small cross-hatched strokes which blend together into a smooth, flawless surface. Pratt depicts everyday objects in her still life tableaus with a vision devoid of irony and sentimentality, and although she uses the cool gaze of the camera, she infuses the work with an unmistakable sensuality. This is felt in Orange on Tinfoil in the juiciness of the pulp in the just-peeled fruit, the vibrant colour and the extraordinary beauty of the play of light on surfaces. Light scintillates in the sheen of the pulp and breaks into coloured shards in the reflective surface of the tinfoil. The orange, carefully displayed to reveal its beauty, enticing the viewer with its radiance, becomes something more than the everyday. Orange on Tinfoil is a superb painting that contains the essence of Pratt's awareness of unique perceptual moments and her intense and sensual response to life. Estimate:

$40,000 ~ $60,000 CAD

Starting Bid:

$40,000 CAD

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This lot contains multiple Lot # 308 items displayed below DAVID SORENSEN 1937 - Canadian Two Works a) Corner Series No. 2 oil on canvas on verso signed, titled and dated 1983 - 1984 74 x 36 in, 187.9 x 91.4 cm

b) Abstraction

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mixed media on paper signed and dated 1981 twice 19 x 16 in, 48.3 x 40.6 cm

Provenance: Waddington and Gorce Inc., Montreal Private Collection, Montreal Literature: Charles Bourget, Intimité Lumineuse - Intimacy of Light, Retrospective 1959 - 2005, Musée du BasSaint-Laurent, 2005, Corner Series No. 2 reproduced page 62 Exhibited: Waddington and Gorce Inc., Montreal, Corner Series No. 2 exhibited Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, Intimité Lumineuse - Intimacy of Light, Retrospective 1959 - 2005, September 2005 - January 2006, Corner Series No. 2 exhibited Estimate:

$4,000 ~ $6,000 CAD

Starting Bid:

$4,000 CAD

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