Lot 206: Bertram Richard Brooker 1888 - 1955 Canadian oil

Bertram Richard Brooker 1888 - 1955 Canadian oil on board Chaudron de savon 11 1/2 x 15 inches 29.2 x 38.1 centimeters signed and on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited:Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, 1947, catalogue #5 Accompanying this work is a letter from Dennis Reid to the present private collector which establishes the circa date, and states that this painting results from a trip Bertram Brooker took to the Ile d'Orleans and north shore of the St Lawrence River in the summer of 1941.