Lot 58: ALEXANDRA LUKE, WILLOWS NEAR UXBRIDGE, ONT., 1947, oil on masonite, 20 ins x 24 ins; 50.8 cms x 61 cms

ALEXANDRA LUKEWILLOWS NEAR UXBRIDGE, ONT., 1947oil on masonitesigned “M.McL” and dated 1947; also signed Margaret McLaughlin, titled and dated “Winter 1947” on the reverse 20 ins x 24 ins; 50.8 cms x 61 cms Provenance:Family of the ArtistLiterature:Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 2010, page 104.Note:This work is signed “M.McL.” which is how Margaret Alexandra Luke who married Clarence McLaughlin, grandson of Robert McLaughlin, originally signed her pictures. To distance herself from Isabel McLaughlin, her painter sister in-law, Margaret began in 1948 to use her middle name, Alexandra, and her birth name, Luke. She was thereafter known as Alexandra Luke. Estimate: $3,000–5,000

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