Lot 23: PEGI MARGARET KATHLEEN NICOL MACLEOD 1904 - 1949

PEGI MARGARET KATHLEEN NICOL MACLEOD 1904 - 1949 BABIES signed (twice) with stamped signature upper and lower left PEGI NICOL MACLEOD; with estate stamp and titled on three gallery labels on the reverse oil on canvas 67.7 by 51.4 cm. 26 ¼ by 20 ¼ in.

Laura Brandon, Pegi by Herself, The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist, Montreal & Kingston, 2005, p. 106

Estate of the Artist

Dominion Gallery, Montreal

Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver

Private Collection, Toronto

MacLeod's daughter Jane was born in December 1937 in New York, and this painting was done early the following year either in New York or in Ottawa at MacLeod's parents' home.

Laura Brandon notes, "In retrospect, her paintings of Jane form a remarkable sequence of interesting and varied interpretations, unique in terms of their number - many hundreds - in Canadian Art."