Lawren S. Harris Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Lawren S. Harris Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 28, 2024
Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970), AUTUMN, DESIGN FOR A PANEL, CA. 1936
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970), Canadian AUTUMN, DESIGN FOR A PANEL, CA. 1936 oil on beaverboard panel signed lower right; signed and titled verso; titled and dated to labels verso Estimate: $30,000—50,000 CAD
Waddington's
Nov. 28, 2024
Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970), NORTH SHORE, LAKE SUPERIOR, CA. 1927
Est: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000
Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970), Canadian NORTH SHORE, LAKE SUPERIOR, CA. 1927 oil on linen Estimate: $2,000,000—3,000,000 CAD
Waddington's
Nov. 09, 2024
CANADIAN OIL PAINTING AFTER LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Est: $100 - $150
An oil on masonite panel painting depicting a mountainous landscape after Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian, 1885 to 1970. Signed on the back side. Framed. Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter, best known as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art, as a visionary in Canadian landscape art and in the development of modern art in Canada. One of a kind artwork. Modern Canadian Fine Art, Landscape Oil Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles.
Antique Arena Inc
Nov. 02, 2024
SKETCH BOOK WITH DRAWINGS BY LAWREN STEWART HARRIS
Est: $100 - $150
A sketch book with ink and pencil sketch drawings by Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian, 1885 to 1970. Inscribed on the cover. Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter, best known as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art, as a visionary in Canadian landscape art and in the development of modern art in Canada. Modern Canadian Art, Artists Sketches and Notes, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Sep. 14, 2024
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS CANADIAN ICEBERG OIL PAINTING
Est: $100 - $150
Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian, 1885 to 1970, oil painting on wood board, depicting a sketch of Icebergs. Circa: 1930s. Signed and inscribed, on the backside. Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter, best known as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art, as a visionary in Canadian landscape art and in the development of modern art in Canada. Modern Canadian Fine Art, Landscape Oil Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Aug. 17, 2024
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS CANADIAN LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING
Est: $100 - $150
Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian, 1885 to 1970, oil painting on board, Algonquin Park landscape. Circa: 1918 to 1920. Signed lower left. Additionally inscribed on a paper label, on the backside. Provenance: aquired by Dr. James Macallum. Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter, best known as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art, as a visionary in Canadian landscape art and in the development of modern art in Canada. Modern Canadian Fine Art, Landscape Oil Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Aug. 16, 2024
Lawren Stewart H. HARRIS (1885-1970) Canadian
Est: $60,000 - $90,000
Lawren Stewart H. HARRIS (1885-1970) ; dimensions 10 1/2 x 14 in. ; frame size 12 x 15 1/3 in. ; c.1920s / signed lower left corner ; Shipping to USA - DHL $430 , National post with tracking service $285 / Shipping to EU, Middle Assia - DHL $330 , National post with tracking service $215
Art-Torg
Jun. 28, 2024
Lawren Stewart H. HARRIS (1885-1970) - Canada
Est: $60,000 - $90,000
Lawren Stewart H. HARRIS (1885-1970) ; Iceberg ; c. 1930s ; oil on board / framed ; dimensions 24,2 x 32,2 cm (9 1/2 x 12 2/3 in.) ; frame size 25,5 x 35,7 cm (10 x 14 in.) ; Shipping to USA - DHL $340 , National post with tracking service $235 / Shipping to EU, Middle Assia - DHL $270 , National post with tracking service $195
Art-Torg
Apr. 18, 2024
ATT LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970) OIL ON BEAVERBOARD
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
ATT LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970) OIL ON BEAVERBOARD ATT LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970) OIL ON BEAVERBOARD abstract coastal scene - signed, unframed (30cm high 38.5cm wide)
Hutchinson Scott Limited
Mar. 05, 2023
Lawren Harris's "Northern Houses, Backview" Limited Edition Print
Est: $65 - $80
Lawren Harris's "Northern Houses, Backview" limited edition print signed and numbered 227/777. This has been professionally double matted with acid free matting, and has been custom framed under glass with an inner frame liner. Canadian Artist
Oakwood Auctions
Mar. 04, 2023
Lawren Harris's "Second Hand Store" Limited Edition Oil on Panel Recreation
Est: $250 - $300
Lawren Harris's "Second Hand Store" oil on panel limited edition recreation numbered of an edition of 460. This is a high quality texturized recreation, in a high quality frame which was custom designed, and has been professionally assembled. Original list price was $2,400. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario, and studied in Berlin, Germany, under Franz Skarbina and Adolf Schlabitz. From 1907 to 1909 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine. Lawren returned to Canada in 1910 and began painting with J.E.H. MacDonald around Toronto and in the Laurentians. Lawren Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven in 1920. He lived in New England from 1934 to 1939 and spent 1940 in New Mexico before returning to Canada to live and paint in Vancouver. This work of art is an exclusive Master Editions lithograph, printed on neutral pH Phoenix Imperial fine art paper, employing the unique Phoenix Process. This process is a revolutionary method printing that is likely to transform the technique of art replication well into the 21st century. Through this process , every detail of brushwork and texture in the original oil can be duplicated, producing a genuinely recreated painting on a wood panel or canvas. These recreations require as many as forty hand-mixed colours, which are laid down one at a time. This labour-intensive procedure is further enhanced through the use of special lightfast inks. Following the principle of applying light tonal values first, then gradually building up the darker tones, our craftsmen are able to capture, on a single-colour rotary press, the subtle chromatic nuances of the original, in much the same manner as did the artist himself. Clearly, this is a time-consuming practice, which demands much of our artisans' skills. It is in fact, our hand-work of the very finest kind, which is dedicated to the preservation of the important icons of Canadian art, long treasured by the Canadian people. Russian Artist Canadian Artist
Oakwood Auctions
Mar. 04, 2023
Lawren Harris's "Sand Lake, Algoma" Limited Edition Oil on Panel Recreation
Est: $250 - $300
Lawren Harris's "Sand Lake, Algoma" oil on panel limited edition recreation numbered of an edition of 460. This is a high quality texturized recreation, in a high quality frame which was custom designed, and has been professionally assembled. Original list price was $2,400 USD. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario, and studied in Berlin, Germany, under Franz Skarbina and Adolf Schlabitz. From 1907 to 1909 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine. Lawren returned to Canada in 1910 and began painting with J.E.H. MacDonald around Toronto and in the Laurentians. Lawren Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven in 1920. He lived in New England from 1934 to 1939 and spent 1940 in New Mexico before returning to Canada to live and paint in Vancouver. This work of art is an exclusive Master Editions lithograph, printed on neutral pH Phoenix Imperial fine art paper, employing the unique Phoenix Process. This process is a revolutionary method printing that is likely to transform the technique of art replication well into the 21st century. Through this process , every detail of brushwork and texture in the original oil can be duplicated, producing a genuinely recreated painting on a wood panel or canvas. These recreations require as many as forty hand-mixed colours, which are laid down one at a time. This labour-intensive procedure is further enhanced through the use of special lightfast inks. Following the principle of applying light tonal values first, then gradually building up the darker tones, our craftsmen are able to capture, on a single-colour rotary press, the subtle chromatic nuances of the original, in much the same manner as did the artist himself. Clearly, this is a time-consuming practice, which demands much of our artisans' skills. It is in fact, our hand-work of the very finest kind, which is dedicated to the preservation of the important icons of Canadian art, long treasured by the Canadian people. Russian Artist Canadian Artist
Oakwood Auctions
Mar. 04, 2023
Lawren Harris's "North Shore Lake Superior" Limited Edition Oil on Panel Recreation
Est: $250 - $300
Lawren Harris's "North Shore Lake Superior" oil on panel limited edition recreation numbered of an edition of 460. This is a high quality texturized recreation, in a high quality frame which was custom designed, and has been professionally assembled. Original list price was $2,700 USD. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario, and studied in Berlin, Germany, under Franz Skarbina and Adolf Schlabitz. From 1907 to 1909 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine. Lawren returned to Canada in 1910 and began painting with J.E.H. MacDonald around Toronto and in the Laurentians. Lawren Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven in 1920. He lived in New England from 1934 to 1939 and spent 1940 in New Mexico before returning to Canada to live and paint in Vancouver. This work of art is an exclusive Master Editions lithograph, printed on neutral pH Phoenix Imperial fine art paper, employing the unique Phoenix Process. This process is a revolutionary method printing that is likely to transform the technique of art replication well into the 21st century. Through this process , every detail of brushwork and texture in the original oil can be duplicated, producing a genuinely recreated painting on a wood panel or canvas. These recreations require as many as forty hand-mixed colours, which are laid down one at a time. This labour-intensive procedure is further enhanced through the use of special lightfast inks. Following the principle of applying light tonal values first, then gradually building up the darker tones, our craftsmen are able to capture, on a single-colour rotary press, the subtle chromatic nuances of the original, in much the same manner as did the artist himself. Clearly, this is a time-consuming practice, which demands much of our artisans' skills. It is in fact, our hand-work of the very finest kind, which is dedicated to the preservation of the important icons of Canadian art, long treasured by the Canadian people. Russian Artist Canadian Artist
Oakwood Auctions
Mar. 04, 2023
Lawren Harris's "Mount Robson" Limited Edition Oil on Panel Recreation
Est: $250 - $300
Lawren Harris's "Mount Robson" oil on panel limited edition recreation numbered of an edition of 460. This is a high quality texturized recreation, in a high quality frame which was custom designed, and has been professionally assembled. Original list price was $2,500 USD. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario, and studied in Berlin, Germany, under Franz Skarbina and Adolf Schlabitz. From 1907 to 1909 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine. Lawren returned to Canada in 1910 and began painting with J.E.H. MacDonald around Toronto and in the Laurentians. Lawren Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven in 1920. He lived in New England from 1934 to 1939 and spent 1940 in New Mexico before returning to Canada to live and paint in Vancouver. This work of art is an exclusive Master Editions lithograph, printed on neutral pH Phoenix Imperial fine art paper, employing the unique Phoenix Process. This process is a revolutionary method printing that is likely to transform the technique of art replication well into the 21st century. Through this process , every detail of brushwork and texture in the original oil can be duplicated, producing a genuinely recreated painting on a wood panel or canvas. These recreations require as many as forty hand-mixed colours, which are laid down one at a time. This labour-intensive procedure is further enhanced through the use of special lightfast inks. Following the principle of applying light tonal values first, then gradually building up the darker tones, our craftsmen are able to capture, on a single-colour rotary press, the subtle chromatic nuances of the original, in much the same manner as did the artist himself. Clearly, this is a time-consuming practice, which demands much of our artisans' skills. It is in fact, our hand-work of the very finest kind, which is dedicated to the preservation of the important icons of Canadian art, long treasured by the Canadian people. Russian Artist Canadian Artist
Oakwood Auctions
Nov. 10, 2022
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970) From Berg Lake, Morning oil on board 12 x
Est: $400,000 - $600,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970) From Berg Lake, Morning oil on board 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 10, 2022
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970) Mountain Sketch LXIII oil on board 12 x 1
Est: $400,000 - $600,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970) Mountain Sketch LXIII oil on board 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm.)
Christie's
May. 21, 2022
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS SILKSCREEN
Est: $200 - $400
ALGOMA COUNTY - SAMPSON - MATTHEWS. 30"X40"
Freedom Auction Company
Dec. 04, 2021
Lawren Harris's "Second Hand Store" Limited Edition Framed Oil on Panel Recreation
Est: $275 - $325
Lawren Harris's "Second Hand Store" oil on panel limited edition recreation numbered of an edition of 460. This is a high quality texturized recreation, in a high quality frame which was custom designed, and has been professionally assembled. Original list price was $2,400. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario, and studied in Berlin, Germany, under Franz Skarbina and Adolf Schlabitz. From 1907 to 1909 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine. Lawren returned to Canada in 1910 and began painting with J.E.H. MacDonald around Toronto and in the Laurentians. Lawren Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven in 1920. He lived in New England from 1934 to 1939 and spent 1940 in New Mexico before returning to Canada to live and paint in Vancouver. This work of art is an exclusive Master Editions lithograph, printed on neutral pH Phoenix Imperial fine art paper, employing the unique Phoenix Process. This process is a revolutionary method printing that is likely to transform the technique of art replication well into the 21st century. Through this process , every detail of brushwork and texture in the original oil can be duplicated, producing a genuinely recreated painting on a wood panel or canvas. These recreations require as many as forty hand-mixed colours, which are laid down one at a time. This labour-intensive procedure is further enhanced through the use of special lightfast inks. Following the principle of applying light tonal values first, then gradually building up the darker tones, our craftsmen are able to capture, on a single-colour rotary press, the subtle chromatic nuances of the original, in much the same manner as did the artist himself. Clearly, this is a time-consuming practice, which demands much of our artisans' skills. It is in fact, our hand-work of the very finest kind, which is dedicated to the preservation of the important icons of Canadian art, long treasured by the Canadian people. Art.
Oakwood Auctions
Dec. 04, 2021
Lawren Harris's "Sand Lake, Algoma" Limited Edition Framed Oil on Panel Recreation
Est: $325 - $350
Lawren Harris's "Sand Lake, Algoma" oil on panel limited edition recreation numbered of an edition of 460. This is a high quality texturized recreation, in a high quality frame which was custom designed, and has been professionally assembled. Original list price was $2,400 USD. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario, and studied in Berlin, Germany, under Franz Skarbina and Adolf Schlabitz. From 1907 to 1909 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine. Lawren returned to Canada in 1910 and began painting with J.E.H. MacDonald around Toronto and in the Laurentians. Lawren Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven in 1920. He lived in New England from 1934 to 1939 and spent 1940 in New Mexico before returning to Canada to live and paint in Vancouver. This work of art is an exclusive Master Editions lithograph, printed on neutral pH Phoenix Imperial fine art paper, employing the unique Phoenix Process. This process is a revolutionary method printing that is likely to transform the technique of art replication well into the 21st century. Through this process , every detail of brushwork and texture in the original oil can be duplicated, producing a genuinely recreated painting on a wood panel or canvas. These recreations require as many as forty hand-mixed colours, which are laid down one at a time. This labour-intensive procedure is further enhanced through the use of special lightfast inks. Following the principle of applying light tonal values first, then gradually building up the darker tones, our craftsmen are able to capture, on a single-colour rotary press, the subtle chromatic nuances of the original, in much the same manner as did the artist himself. Clearly, this is a time-consuming practice, which demands much of our artisans' skills. It is in fact, our hand-work of the very finest kind, which is dedicated to the preservation of the important icons of Canadian art, long treasured by the Canadian people. Art.
Oakwood Auctions
Sep. 26, 2021
Lawren Stewart Harris - Farm House (Old Mill c. 1911)
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Farm house with old mill structure attached (oil on panel, 8" x 10", framed)
Westbridge Fine Art Auction House
Sep. 17, 2020
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, PINE TREES, KEMPENFELT BAY, C.1916, oil on board, 14 ins x 10.5 ins; 35.6 cms x 26.7 cms
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS PINE TREES, KEMPENFELT BAY, C.1916 oil on board signed and titled "Kempenfeldt Bay" on the reverse 14 ins x 10.5 ins; 35.6 cms x 26.7 cms Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto This early work depicts a stand of trees near the Harris family cottage on Lake Simcoe. During this time in the artist's practice, ideas of how to depict "our Canada" as a unique and original subject seen through truly Canadian eyes was at the forefront of Lawren Harris's mind, mirrored by Canada’s emergence as a nation apart from colonial Britain because of the valiant participation of our troops in World War One. In 1916, when this painting was made, Harris was spending much of his time training soldiers at Camp Borden, not far from Lake Simcoe. Harris would experience a heartbreaking loss when his younger brother Howard was killed in battle just two years later. The bright sunny scene is alive with colour - a golden field, cool green evergreens and vibrant ombre turquoise blue sky almost make the viewer feel like they are standing right in that warm summer sun - a respite from the difficult reality of a world at war. This painting has been owned by the same family since its acquisition in the 1930s, likely when the Studio Building contents were dispersed, and has been passed down through three generations. Estimate: $60,000–80,000
Waddington's
Jul. 05, 2020
(2) Lawren Harris (NM, Ontario/Canada, 1885-1970)
Est: $150 - $250
(2) Lawren Harris (NM, Ontario/Canada, 1885-1970) framed prints. With original label verso. Image sizes: 3 x 4 / 5 x 6 in. Overall framed sizes: 8.5 x 8.5 / 7 x 8 in. Both Framed behind glass.
Helmuth Stone
Jun. 22, 2019
The Group of Seven member Lawren Harris Copy of artwork
Est: $600 - $800
加拿大七人画派 Lawren Harris 《蒙特利尔河》复制艺术品 Size:20x25cm Lawren Stewart Harris (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter born in Brantford, Ontario, who was one of the best known landscape painters of the Group of Seven, a group of artists who set out to create a distinctly Canadian art. He pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. The Group of Seven （加拿大七人画派成员） Franklin Carmichael Lawren S. Harris Alexander Young Jackson Frank H. Johnston Arthur Lismer J.E.H. MacDonald Frederick H. Varley
Majestic Auction
Dec. 29, 2018
ATTR. LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (1885-1970)
Est: $200 - $400
BOAT ABSTRACT OIL ON BOARD , SIGNED LOWER LEFT, L. HARRIS - 20" x 16" , 25" x 21"
Echoes Antiques & Auction Gallery
Sep. 23, 2018
Lawren Stewar Harris - Algoma Country
Est: $700 - $900
Algoma Country (Sampson Matthews silkscreen, 30" x 40" signed by A.J. Casson)
Westbridge Fine Art Auction House
May. 10, 2018
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970), MT. ROBSON FROM BERG LAKE, COLOUR AQUATINT; SIGNED LOWER LEFT Lawren Harris, del. LOWER RIGHT (Produced and signed N. Hornyansky impr. and titled and inscribed - misprint, used as colour model IN PENCIL
Est: $150 - $200
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970) MT. ROBSON FROM BERG LAKECOLOUR AQUATINT; SIGNED LOWER LEFT Lawren Harris, del. LOWER RIGHT (Produced and signed N. Hornyansky impr. and titled and inscribed - misprint, used as colour model IN PENCIL (Plate, 11.8” x 14.8”) Condition noted: Crease and crack lower left, see photo.Estimate: $150—200
Waddington's
May. 29, 2017
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, ABSTRACT, oil on board, 15 ins x 12 ins; 38.1 cms x 30.5 cms
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISABSTRACToil on boardsigned 15 ins x 12 ins; 38.1 cms x 30.5 cms Provenance:Collection of Bess Harris, Vancouver Estate of Howard K. Harris (COLL I - # 11)Private Collection, British ColumbiaLiterature:Charles Comfort et al., Lawren Harris, Retrospective Exhibition, Seymour Press, 1963, pages 7, 8 and 42.Dennis Reid, Atma Buddhi Manas: The Later Work of Lawren S. Harris, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1985, page 59. Andrew Hunter, Lawren Stewart Harris: A Painter’s Progress, Americas Society, New York, 2000, page 72.Dr. Charles Comfort observed that over the course of an artist's career: “with advancing years, there may be less of the tremendous impact of earlier work but there is a maturity and a sense of harmony and balance that only a lifetime of creative experience can bring to a painting.” This abstract painting by Lawren Harris (1885-1970) falls within the so-called mature years of his production. According to typewritten labels on the reverse, this sketch was painted in Vancouver, circa 1962. Comfort's position, suggesting as it does, that Harris was “forever reaching for a higher and more exacting phrasing of his own personal and individual vocabulary," seems evident in this lot, painted the same year as Harris's great Atma Buddhi Manas. From the mid-thirties on, Harris's primary focus was with non-objective painting. While such early works have that "tremendous impact" to which Comfort alluded, works such as this composition exude that "vocabulary which embodies the precision of the purest, at once architectonic, simple, clean, silent and detached” which Comfort insists is the product of maturity. Dennis Reid has asserted that "all the paintings of 1961 and 1962 are mandala, and they function as, above all else, objects to assist in meditation." If this is to be accepted as fact, surely Abstraction, 1962 holds a special place within this group. Despite his advancing age and a frailty resulting from his 1958 heart attack, Harris continued to paint large, and many works from this period are oversize. This diminutive work stands apart. As a meditative object, it could easily be imagined as the servant of a more private, intense devotion. Fire or the flame motif, found in many religions, holds power as a symbol of purification, warmth, illumination and destruction (possibly, of ignorance). This is Composition’s preoccupation. Reinforcing the central flame shape are bands that radiate out – rhythmically - to the composition’s extreme edges. While Andrew Hunter concedes that “it is not easy to connect with all of Lawren Harris’s later works” admitting that they can be “theoretical and remote,” it must also be conceded that this work, by stark contrast, is an exceptionally sympathetic one, palpably encouraging a strong magnetic pull towards quiet contemplation.Estimate: $20,000–30,000
Waddington's
May. 29, 2017
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, STUDY FOR LIGHTHOUSE, FATHER POINT, QUEBEC, graphite, with the artist’s notations, 7.5 ins x 10 ins; 17.1 cms x 23.5 cms
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISSTUDY FOR LIGHTHOUSE, FATHER POINT, QUEBECgraphite, with the artist’s notations 7.5 ins x 10 ins; 17.1 cms x 23.5 cms Literature:Peter Larisey, S.J., Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life - An Interpretation, Dundurn Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1993, pages 106-108 for an extensive discussion of this subject, figure 9.13 for this lot reproduced, cover and plate 31 for the painting Lighthouse, Father Point, (collection of the National Gallery of Canada), both reproduced in colour. Charles C. Hill, Art for a Nation: The Group of Seven, (catalogue), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1995, page 331.Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens, Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries, Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, 2017, page 63, pages 60-61 for the canvas of Lighthouse, Father Point and page 63 for the oil sketch of Lighthouse, Father Point, both reproduced in colour.Lawren Harris (1885-1970) discovered the lighthouse at Father Point (Rimouski), Quebec while on a 1929 sketching trip with A.Y. Jackson in search of new subject matter. Roald Nasgaard suggests the lighthouse was a portent of "the formal exactitude of his future abstracts and its reductive geometries." Peter Larisey agrees and writes: "Harris was probably attracted to this motif because of the streamlined modernity of its form. As we have seen, it was important for Harris to be modern. Another reason, however, was probably that the structure was already reduced to its minimal, essential elements: a shaft housing the spiral stair, supported by flying buttresses and surmounted by the lantern." The lantern is depicted in this lot.The painting that resulted from the detailed pencil sketches, of which this lot is one, and a single oil sketch that Harris made on the trip with Jackson, was first shown in the 1930 Group Exhibition and is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, a gift of the artist in 1960. According to Charlie Hill, Lighthouse, Father Point, was the only canvas that resulted from this trip.Estimate: $5,000–7,000
Waddington's
May. 10, 2017
Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian (1885 - 1970), Algoma River: Algoma Sketches, CXL, oil on panel, 10 1/2 x 13 in. (26.7 x 33 cm)
Est: $125,000 - $175,000
signed Lawren/Harris lower left
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Aug. 16, 2016
Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Group of Seven Artist - Canadian 'Toronto Street, Winter Morning, 1920' Engraved on .9999 Fine Silver $20.00 Coin. LE with C.O.A. Issue by RCM 2013 - $90.00 with 9x12 Giclee.
Est: -
Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Group of Seven Artist - Canadian 'Toronto Street, Winter Morning, 1920' Engraved on .9999 Fine Silver $20.00 Coin. LE with C.O.A. Issue by RCM 2013 - $90.00 with 9x12 Giclee.
Auction Network
May. 30, 2016
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, ALGOMA SKETCH, 1919, oil on panel, 10.5 ins x 13.5 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.3 cms
Est: $150,000 - $175,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISALGOMA SKETCH, 1919oil on panelsigned; also signed and titled on the reverse, and dated on an Art Gallery of Ontario label 10.5 ins x 13.5 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.3 cms Provenance:Laing Galleries, TorontoPrivate Collection, AlbertaNote:In 1919, Lawren Harris organized a second boxcar trip to Algoma, which included A.Y. Jackson, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frank Johnston. Just as they had done in 1918, the artists first travelled to Sault Ste. Marie where they picked up their caboose, after which they were taken by train to Canyon, the most northerly point of their trip. After several days of sketching in the area, their caboose was hitched to a southbound train, and they began the return trip stopping at Hubert near the Montreal Falls and at Batchewana, before heading back to the Sault and then home to Toronto at the beginning of October. The Algoma landscape has an overabundance of colour and shape which Harris could draw upon and this sketch contains a lot of detail. However, Algoma was critically important for teaching Harris how to reduce the landscape to its essential forms. Here Harris has ordered the diverse landscape elements into a coherent whole, aided in the process by the seasonal change which eliminated the riotous patterns of autumn leaves from the scene. This sketch is probably a Batchewana subject, as indicated by the large dark rock formation that rises up the right side of the picture. That it was painted late in the trip is indicated by the absence of colourful autumn foliage on the hills in the background, seen through the screen of dead trees. This motif was a favourite of Tom Thomson, through whose eyes Harris may have interpreted the scene before him. Harris would use it again to dramatic effect in Beaver Swamp, Algoma of 1920 (Art Gallery of Ontario).
Waddington's
Mar. 30, 2016
Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian (1885 - 1970), Red House, lithograph, 5 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. (13.7 x 17.8 cm)
Est: $400 - $600
signed in pencil, circa 1925
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Mar. 30, 2016
Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian (1885 - 1970), Maligne Lake, Jasper Park, lithograph, 5 1/4 x 7 in. (13.3 x 17.8 cm)
Est: $400 - $600
signed in pencil, circa 1925
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
Nov. 23, 2015
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, ABSTRACT COMPOSITION (LSH 25), oil on masonite, 24.25 ins x 30 ins; 61.6 cms x 76.2 cms
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISABSTRACT COMPOSITION (LSH 25)oil on masonite 24.25 ins x 30 ins; 61.6 cms x 76.2 cms Provenance:Private Collection, Nova ScotiaLiterature:Bess Harris and R.G.P. Colgrove, (eds.), Lawren Harris, MacMillan of Canada, Toronto, 1960, page 91.Andrew Hunter, Lawren Stewart Harris: A Painter’s Progress, Americas Society, New York, 2000, page 53.Note:Lawren Harris exhibited his abstract works for the first time in Canada in 1937 at the third exhibition of the Canadian Group of Painters. His decision to move away from the common ideals of the Group to pursue abstraction may not have been a popular decision at that time but it was, for him, an inevitable one. Harris wrote: “My purpose in attempting to paint abstractions is that there is at once more imaginative scope and a more exacting discipline in non-objective painting. I have had ideas consistently forming which could not be expressed in representational terms.”
Waddington's
Nov. 23, 2015
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, ALGOMA, oil on board, 10.5 ins x 13.75 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.9 cms
Est: $80,000 - $100,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISALGOMAoil on boardsigned; also signed, titled and inscribed “Early sketch” on the reverse 10.5 ins x 13.75 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.9 cms Provenance:Laing Galleries, TorontoPrivate Collection, OntarioLiterature:Peter Larisey, A Portfolio of Landscapes by Lawren S. Harris, The National Gallery of Canada, Bulletin 23, 1974.Paul Duval, Canadian Impressionism, McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1990, page 128, and page 129 for the closely related oil sketch by Franz Johnston, Painted Hillside, 1918, (McMichael Canadian Art Collection), reproduced in colour.Note:Early in 1918 Lawren Harris was suffering from a severe depression brought on by the death of his brother Howard who was killed in action overseas. The loss was felt all the more acutely since it followed closely on the death by drowning of Tom Thomson in July 1917. Harris was discharged from the army for health reasons on May 1, 1918 and moved to his cottage near Lake Simcoe to recuperate. His friend, Dr. James MacCallum suggested that they take a sketching trip to Algoma to help in Harris’s recovery. This trip, Harris’s first to Algoma, began a fertile and important period of landscape painting for the artist and led to his organizing six subsequent trips to the region for himself and other members of the Group of Seven between September 1918 and autumn 1921. This is possibly one of the sketches Harris made on that first trip to Algoma in the spring of 1918. The location has been identified as “Algoma,” and “Early sketch” has been inscribed on the verso. In the exhibition “Algoma Sketches and Pictures by J.E.H. MacDonald, ARCA; Lawren Harris, Frank H. Johnston” held in April-May 1919 at the Art Gallery of Toronto, Harris showed two canvases and forty-six oil sketches, including six identified simply as “Spring 1918.” This oil sketch is not characteristic of what Peter Larisey calls the “wall of wilderness” compositions that characterize Harris’s early Algoma work, nor of the more expansive later examples. However, the spring-like palette of fresh greens broken up by pink strokes of granite could well have been Harris’s first impression of a region as yet unexplored by him. While this lot is undated, it shares many of the characteristics of a related work by Franz Johnston executed in 1918 entitled Patterned Hillside. Like this lot, the Johnston sketch shows a strong influence of Impressionism in its colouration and use of open brushwork.
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Nov. 23, 2015
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, STUDY FOR NORTH LABRADOR, 1930, graphite, 7.5 ins x 10 ins; 17.8 cms x 24.1 cms
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISSTUDY FOR NORTH LABRADOR, 1930graphitewith artist’s colour notations 7.5 ins x 10 ins; 17.8 cms x 24.1 cms Provenance:Roberts Gallery Limited, TorontoPrivate Collection, OntarioLiterature:Bess Harris and R.G.P. Colgrove, (eds.), Lawren Harris, MacMillan of Canada, Toronto, 1969, page 8 for the related painting North Labrador, 1930, reproduced in colour. Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930 (catalogue), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, for the related painting North Labrador, 1930, cat. no. 171, reproduced.Note:A closely related pencil sketch entitled North Labrador, 1930 is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (no. 42124).
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May. 25, 2015
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, JACK RESTING BY A TREE, oil on canvas, 13.25 ins x 11.25 ins; 33.7 cms x 28.6 cms
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS JACK RESTING BY A TREE oil on canvas 13.25 ins x 11.25 ins; 33.7 cms x 28.6 cms Provenance:Private Collection, Niagara-on-the-LakeLiterature:"The Coupler Presents-Jack T. Hulme," The Coupler (The Official Magazine for the employees and pensioners of the Toronto Transit Commission), No. 7, Vol. 11, November 1936.Note:John Thompson Hulme, or Jack as everyone called him, was born in Toronto in October 1898. Leaving the city behind for the farming life, Jack moved with his family to Aurora (Oak Ridges) while still a boy. "The district surrounding his parent's farm was a favourite haunt for artists and (Jack) was able to pick up considerable pocket money by merely posing for them in the shade of some tree or with a fishing rod at the edge of a stream." One such artist, a young friend of the family, was Lawren Stewart Harris. Painted on the family property, Harris is believed to have paid Jack 25 cents to sit for this portrait.The quiet of such afternoons on the farm were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. Claiming to be a year older than he was, Jack enlisted in the army on December 20th, 1915 and joined the 127th Battalion "York Rangers." He was sent to Britain with the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force alongside his father and his older brother, Howard. He quickly rose through the ranks of service, holding the position of Sapper, then Bugler and finally, Private. After returning from the War, Jack worked as a painter and then for the Toronto Railway (TTC) as a conductor. In 1940 he reenlisted in World War II, leaving behind his wife and a 10 year old son. He served his time overseas with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Engineers, starting as a Private and eventually becoming a Quarter Master Sergeant. When the war ended, he returned home and continued his career with the TTC, ultimately as a Supervisor. Devoting his spare time to his family and the Masonic Lodge, he loved to work in the garden, make his own wine and was a champion Crib player. In this early work, executed prior to his formal training, Harris captures Jack as those close to him described him: quiet, unobtrusive and frank. Jack passed away on September 12, 1973.
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Nov. 24, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, TREES IN SUMMER, oil on canvas, 22.25 ins x 18 ins; 56.5 cms x 45.7 cms
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISTREES IN SUMMERsigned with initials, 22.25 ins x 18 ins; 56.5 cms x 45.7 cmsProvenance:Private Collection, Niagara-on-the-LakeLiterature:Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906-1930, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, page 13-14, page 40, no. 11 and page 65, no. 53 reproduced.Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, Cerebus Publishing, Canada, 2011, page 50.Note:This lot represents one of the earliest Lawren Harris canvases to appear at auction. It was executed sometime between 1905 and 1910 when a young Harris travelled to Aurora to spend time with the family of the grandparents of the present owner. While imprecise, this dating is based both on the recollection of the owners, the manner of signature, (Harris used initials to sign his work until 1910) as well as a second work in the collection whose subject's age is known to the family allowing us to date this work - which was executed on the same visit - with increased accuracy. In 1904 Harris left Canada to study art in Berlin. In 1905, he returned to Canada for the summer, and went back Europe once again until the end of the summer of 1907. While clearly far removed from the works Harris would eventually produce - and oh-so much tamer, even refined - in this lot we have a notion of Harris' early approach to composition: the contoured outline of the rising hill, the screen of trees and grasses and the clouds and sky in deep space beyond, which would later form the basis of so many of Harris wilderness sketches. Very few works from this early formative period have been located; Jeremy Adamson illustrates two comparable works one undated and one dating from 1908 though both much smaller than this canvas.
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Nov. 24, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, ROCKY LANDSCAPE, oil on panel, 10.5 ins x 13.75 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.9 cms
Est: $75,000 - $100,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISROCKY LANDSCAPEoil on panel 10.5 ins x 13.75 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.9 cms Provenance:Acquired from the artist's familyBy descent to the present owner, TorontoLiterature:Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, Cerebus Publishing, Canada, 2011, page 196 for a comparable Algoma work circa 1920 and page 215 for a comparable Superior work, circa 1923, both reproduced in colour.Note:This lot is neither titled nor dated leaving some room for speculation about its subject and location of execution. Compositionally and stylistically it bears much in common with the later Algoma works or early Superior sketches dating it likely to circa 1920-1923.
Waddington's
Nov. 24, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, BATCHAWANA, oil on panel, 10.5 ins x 13.5 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.3 cms
Est: $75,000 - $100,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISBATCHAWANAoil on panelsigned and titled on the reverse 10.5 ins x 13.5 ins; 26.7 cms x 34.3 cms Provenance:Acquired from the artist's familyBy descent to the present owner, TorontoLiterature:Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906-1930, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, page 83.Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, Cerebus Publishing, Canada, 2011, page 194 and page 184 for a closely related work entitled Autumn, Batchawana Lake XXIX, 1918, reproduced in colour.Note:The boxcar trips, arranged by Lawren Harris, in which he and his painting friends travelled north to Algoma are well-documented and we know that in 1919 (the second boxcar trip) the party stopped at Batchawana, the last point on the trip, where they remained for about a week. By mid-October they were back in Toronto. Harris found himself challenged by "the superabundance of colour, the infinity of detail and the continuous change in the appearance of the countryside as winter approached". In these works he and his fellow artists recognized the need to simplify their compositions down to the most essential shapes and colours. And yet this lot retains, with success, many of the complexities of the Batchawana experience. It is often said that Algoma confounded Harris, however, this lot most emphatically refutes this. Rather Harris had developed many positive associations with the Algoma visits; they helped restore his health which had become fragile during the war years. Duval quotes Harris as remarking that he found Algoma "a veritable paradise for the creative adventurer to paint in the Canadian north". Duval continues: "The small panels with their brilliant, almost liquid, brushwork convey a virtuoso performance."
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Nov. 24, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, LUMBER CAMP, oil on board, mounted to board, 8 ins x 8.75 ins; 20.3 cms x 22.2 cms
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISLUMBER CAMPoil on board, mounted to board 8 ins x 8.75 ins; 20.3 cms x 22.2 cms Provenance:Thoreau MacDonald (son of J.E.H. MacDonald), TorontoCollection of Mrs. A.C. KennyPrivate Collection, OakvilleLiterature:Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, page 14, 23 and 43 and page 43, cat. no. 24 for The Drive (Collection of the National Gallery of Canada), reproduced.Note:According to an inscription by Thoreau MacDonald on the backing, this work was probably executed circa 1912. MacDonald suggests: "The lumber camp may have been within Algonquin Park or northern U.S."In 1909, Harris spent weeks on assignment for Harper's Magazine in a Minnesota lumber camp. Adamson writes: "It was here that the artist first came in direct contact with the austere majesty of the north." The Minnesota trip did not only yield commercial material for Harper's, but from sketches made there, Harris selected two Minnesota subjects to exhibit in the Ontario Society of Artists exhibit of that year. For the 1912 spring O.S.A. exhibition, Harris exhibited six canvases including a logging scene, The Drive, that was one of only two full scale canvases Harris had done to date and according to Adamson his first distinctly Northern Ontario subject. Clearly, Harris had identified a trope in the lumber camps and log drives that was the ideal vehicle for his expression of the "North" the interpretation of which he would pursue in paint and poetry for decades to come. While Harris had also visited Algonquin Park by 1914, it seems more likely that this lot pre-dates this, and was executed ca. 1912 as suggested by Thoreau MacDonald.
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Nov. 24, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, LAKE SUPERIOR, oil on panel, 10.5 ins x 13 ins; 26.7 cms x 33 cms
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISLAKE SUPERIOR, 10.5 ins x 13 ins; 26.7 cms x 33 cmsProvenance:Acquired from the artist's familyBy descent to the present owner, TorontoNote:In 1921, after a return visit to Algoma to sketch with his painter friends, Lawren Harris pushed on to Lake Superior for the first time. He was accompanied by A.Y. Jackson and found the trip to be a revelation. Harris would revisit the area numerous times between 1921-1928 and many believe Lake Superior and its shores to have provided him with his greatest inspiration. While this sketch is not dated, it would be fair to assume that it was painted on one of the earlier visits to Superior. A transition between the rich Algoma landscape paintings and the starker, stripped down maturer Superior works, this lot combines elements of both periods. Its lush evergreens, heavy with impasto, are set beside the bleached leafless trees that bear witness to forest fires that ravaged Superior in the years before Harris's visit. Unlike the later Superior works, this lot retains the richness of detail that would later be relinquished in order to idealize the landscape. Representing one last push to celebrate the lush textures associated with the Algoma pictures - as though Harris might be reluctant to recalibrate - here we still enjoy a classic composition. The variety of colour and variegated textures would soon evolve out of his work to be replaced by a stylized, lonely landscape which, in its own turn, would be superseded by Harris's later abstract forms.
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Aug. 19, 2014
ATTRIBUTED TO LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (Canada, 1885-1970) TREES ABOVE LAKE SUPERIOR
Est: $5,000 - $10,000
Oil on canvas Housed in a natural carved wood frame Signed lower left "Lawren Harris 22" SIZE: 19" x 26". Overall: 24" x 31". CONDITION: Craquelure, surface grime with discolored varnish. Otherwise very good. 9-93550
James D. Julia
May. 26, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, STREET SCENE (LSH 135), oil on canvas, 44.75 ins x 40 ins; 113.7 cms x 101.6 cms
Est: $400,000 - $600,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISSTREET SCENE (LSH 135)oil on canvaswith the LSH Holdings stamp (135) on the reverse 44.75 ins x 40 ins; 113.7 cms x 101.6 cms Literature:Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, Cerebrus Publishing, Canada, 2011, page 100 and page 101, reproduced in colour.Note:Art critic and writer Paul Duval has given many years of consideration to the work of the Group of Seven and Harris in particular. In his recent monograph on Harris, Duval writes of this lot: "Harris had a special affection for his major canvas, Street Scene. He felt that while the majority of his city paintings were portraits of specific dwellings, Street Scene encapsulated a total mood of the Toronto metropolis during the early nineteen twenties. In it, he captured the grey, overcast feeling of a metropolitan morning, stark and treeless. One of Harris's great achievements was matching a theme to a style, whether in town or in the isolation of Lake Superior (see Lot 46)...""Unlike other Harris urban canvases, Street Scene stresses a marked verticality in its design, unlike the more passive horizontality found in most of his other street paintings. The penetration of the picture plane by the composition's deep perspective is balanced by an almost flat passage of the side of a building and the grey ribbons of clouds which weave the entire design together. Stylistically, these clouds are virtually identical to those featured in some Lake Superior canvases of 1922, which makes Street Scene an important transition picture. Street Scene is an emotionally charged and very complex creation, bringing Harris's urban series of paintings to a dramatic conclusion. It is a landmark in his career."
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May. 26, 2014
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, LAKE SUPERIOR PAINTING, oil on canvas, 40 ins x 50 ins; 101.6 cms x 127 cms
Est: $2,500,000 - $3,500,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISLAKE SUPERIOR PAINTINGoil on canvassigned and titled on a label on the stretcher 40 ins x 50 ins; 101.6 cms x 127 cms Provenance:Acquired from the artist's family by the present owner (in 1952)Literature:Lawren Harris, Paintings 1910-1948 (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of Toronto, 1948, pages 10, 31 and plates 10 and 12, cat. nos. 34 and 44, for related works from this period (the second in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada), reproduced. Lawren Harris, Retrospective Exhibition, 1963 (exhibition catalogue) National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1963, page 7 (foreword), page 23 (Paul Duval, "From Nature to Abstraction") and page 32 (William Hart, "Theory and Practice of Abstract Art").Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes 1906-1930 (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, pages 123, 126 and 142. "He's Leaving Home" by Sara Angell, Maclean's (March 13, 2014), pages 52-54.Note:In A.Y. Jackson's biographical sketch of Lawren Harris, the preface to the 1948 Harris exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, Jackson writes that while "Algoma provided MacDonald with the subject of his finest canvases... Harris was (already) tending toward simplification and this opulent heavy wooded country was difficult for him. He needed more space and found it on the North Shore of Lake Superior... It was this country that gave Harris the motives for many of his best-known canvases. There was a feeling of space, dramatic lighting, the stark forms of rocky hills and dead trees, and beyond, Lake Superior, shining like burnished silver."It may have been the naturally occurring simplicity of the land and reductions of forms that produced in Harris an affinity for Lake Superior. Adamson writes: "Reduced to essential forms by successive ice ages, the landscape differed strongly from the variegated scenery of Algoma. All transient effects seem to have been eliminated. Harris was captivated by this sense of timelessness and his Lake Superior paintings directly embody this quality."Indeed, most critics and art historians agree that while Georgian Bay and Algoma were pivotal for Harris' Group of Seven colleagues, Lake Superior was crucial to Harris' evolution. Tension, simplification and dramatic lighting as highlighted in this lot are hallmarks of this period of transition. Harris embraced the north as a place of spirituality and compositions such as Lake Superior Painting were informed by his growing interest in Theosophy and Transcendentalism and a move away from the Nationalism that informed early group works. Adamson describes it as a move away from the particular to the universal. Writing of this period, Dr. Charles Comfort, then director of the National Gallery of Canada, remarked that after his Algoma experience Harris searched for "something more austere, geographical equivalents which supported his theory of replenishing values... and confirmed his doctrine of the spread of spiritual emancipation from the cleansing north." Indeed, Harris felt that Lake Superior provided the inspiration to produce paintings in which man, nature and spirit were one.Paul Duval writes: "It is in the richly productive decade between 1920 and 1930 that the technical and aesthetic resources possessed by Harris are most clearly apparent... The contrast of Lake Superior's rocky shoreline to the richly tangled forest of Algoma and the crumbling textures of the slum houses seemed to get Harris into creative high gear... Out of the seemingly unpromising material of Lake Superior's barren rock and open sky (which, according to Harris, in their singing expressiveness and sublimity existed nowhere else in Canada) and withered trees, Harris composed a number of masterpieces."Increasingly in the 20s, Harris' work grows more formal. Hart writes that Harris' main concern "appears to be to impose strict compositional control upon the majestic landscape. Pentimenti (as evidenced in this lot) indicate the colour, size and thickness of several shapes were adjusted for the sake of refinement and pictorial unity."Lake Superior Painting embodies the two important characteristics of this period of Harris' production that are powerfully rendered here: infinite space and supernatural light. The radiating bands of light symbolize high intellect, a kind of divine intelligence and space is synonymous with consciousness. Adamson writes: "Both elements are directly related to (Harris') occult vision of reality."It is difficult to know precisely when this important canvas was executed. After 1924, Harris seldom dated works and Hart postulates that "perhaps he felt their autonomous quality would be compromised by reference to the make and time of its completion." Lawren Harris is the subject of three major exhibitions which will take place over the next several years: Lawren Harris - Canadian Visionary organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, a second exhibition organized by the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles in association with the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Mystical Modernism curated by Roald Nasgaard which will visit the McMichael Gallery in 2016.
Waddington's
May. 19, 2014
Third Liberty Loan Poster
Est: $100 - $200
Signed Lawrence S. Harris lower left, 29 1/2" H x 19 1/2" W, Frame 34 1/2" H x 24 1/2" W, Condition: Water stains and minor paper loss to lower left corner
Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia
Oct. 10, 2013
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970)
Est: $400 - $600
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS (CANADIAN, 1885-1970) IN THE WARD; PRINT (From zinc plate) ; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT IN PENCIL (Image, 5.5" x 7")
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Jun. 03, 2013
LAWREN STEWART HARRIS, MOUNTAIN ON THE ATHABASCA RIVER, MOUNTAIN SKETCH XCI, oil on board, 12 ins x 15 ins; 30 cms x 37.5 cms
Est: $325,000 - $375,000
LAWREN STEWART HARRISMOUNTAIN ON THE ATHABASCA RIVER, MOUNTAIN SKETCH XCI, oil on board; signed; titled on the reverse 12 ins x 15 ins; 30 cms x 37.5 cms Provenance: Bess Harris Collection, Vancouver.Dominion Gallery, Montreal.Private Collection, Edmonton.Private Collection, Ontario.Literature: Lisa Christensen, "A Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris", Calgary, 2000, pages 67 and 75.Note: Harris and A.Y. Jackson first visited Mount Robson Provincial Park in 1924, painting such subjects as Maligne Lake, the Colin Range and the Athabasca River and Valley.An avid believer in Theosophy, Harris was interested in divine mysteries and their relationships to human origins. The artist's time spent in the mountains would provide an experience with the sublime that he had not previously encountered. Harris once described how he applied this awareness to his art: "If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us without inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience." This lot conveys the dramatic visuals of the western Canadian landscape while capturing Harris' deepening interest in abstract forms.
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