Frederick Grant Banting

Lot # 149 Sir Frederick Grant Banting 1891 - 1941 Canadian Village in Winter, St. Fidele, Quebec oil on panel on verso titled variously, dated 1930 on the Henrietta Banting label and certified by Henrietta Banting, #11 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in 21 x 26.7cm Provenance: Henrietta Banting David B. Masur, Montreal Kastel Gallery Inc., Montreal Sold sale of Important Canadian Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours, Books and Prints, Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Inc., May 14, 1979, lot 46 Private Collection, Toronto Literature: Michael Bliss, Banting: A Biography, 1984, page 191 Frederick Banting was catapulted into the spotlight by his co-discovery of insulin in 1923. A man who began his life as a straightforward fellow from an unpretentious rural upbringing, Banting was unprepared for many of the complexities brought on by his success. Stresses, both professional and personal, led him to flee Toronto whenever possible, and in March of 1927 he undertook his first sketching trip with A.Y. Jackson to Quebe�ois villages along the St. Lawrence. This charming scene of the village of Sainte-Fid�le was executed during another trip with Jackson in 1930; it deftly portrays the simple rural landscape which Banting so loved. Visiting these small towns and living amongst their residents, he discovered a way of life that he thought was vanishing. He sought to capture these scenes both as a return to his youth and an escape from everyday life. In his travel diary, he wrote, "The more I think of the city the more I want to live in the country, and the more I think of being a professor of research the more I want to be an artist."

Lot # 601 Two Works a) Waiting for Scottie Sir Frederick Grant Banting 1891 - 1941 Canadian oil on board signed and on verso titled and dated 1923 on the exhibition label 12 x 10 in 30.5 x 25.4cm b) Rockport, Mass. George Eastcott Payne CPE NSSA OSA 1891 - 1983 Canadian oil on board signed and dated 1923; on verso signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Presented July 6, 1934, Fred Banting, his mark, A. Mackay" 12 x 10 in 30.5 x 25.4cm Provenance: Angus Mackay, Ontario By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited: Hart House, University of Toronto, Exhibition of Paintings by the late Sir Frederick Banting, February 13 - March 1, 1943 The two paintings in this lot were the property of Angus "Scottie" Mackay, a fellow medical student, colleague and close friend of Frederick Banting. Estimate: $5,000 ~ $6,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

LOT 58 FREDERICK GRANT BANTING POND INLET, ink, signed and titled in the margin 4 3/4" x 6"; 11.9 cm x 15 cm Auction Estimate: $2000 / $3000 Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist. By descent to the present owner, Ontario. Exhibited: Exhibitions of Paintings by the late Sir Frederick Banting, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Saturday 13th February to Monday 1st March, 1943. Literature: D.B.G. Fair, Banting & Jackson, An Artistic Brotherhood, London, Ontario, 1997, pages 10-12. Frederick Banting and A.Y. Jackson’’’’s Arctic expedition aboard the Beothic began on July 16th, 1927, the steamer leaving from Sydney, Cape Breton, moving through the Straits of Belle Isle, with Greenland spotted a week after departing. After a brief stop in Godhavn, “the Beothic next pushed through the Melville ice-pack. The weather cleared to allow the painters to record Bylot Island as the ship moved westward to visit Pond Inlet, Baffin Island.” Banting found “the sense of freedom, stimulated by the [Arctic] trip, resulted in great improvement in his art work and encouraged him. On the first day at sea, he had thrown his white collar overboard as a symbol of his release from the confines of his research and social burdens. Jackson told Banting that his new sketches showed a lot of promise and would joke that he should abandon science for art. Banting stated he intended to do that at age 50 for he regarded research as a young man’’’’s job.”

FREDERICK GRANT BANTING THE CHURCH, ST. JEAN PORT JOLI, QUE., oil on panel, signed anddated ‘27 10" x 14"; 25 cm x 35 cm Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist. By descent to the present owner, Ontario. Exhibited: Exhibition of Paintings by the late Sir Frederick Banting, HartHouse, University of Toronto, Toronto, Saturday 13th February toMonday 1st March, 1943. Literature: A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’’’’s Country, The Autobiography of A.Y.Jackson, Toronto, 1958, page 75. Jackson, in his autobiography, writes that Banting was anoccasional sketching companion in Quebec: “When I told him I wasplanning to spend some part of the winter in St. Jean Port Joli heasked if he might come along with me.” This was Banting’’’’s firstexperience of painting out of doors in winter time. Jacksoncontinues: “It was March, but there was no sign of spring, and wewere working in very exposed country. The winds swept in from theGulf and there was no shelter from them. Banting persisted, thoughit was an ordeal for him. I found him one day crouched behind arail fence, the snow drifting into his sketch box and his hands socold he could hardly work. He turned to me and said, ‘And I thoughtthis was a sissy game.’’’’”

LOT 55 SIR FREDERICK GRANT BANTING 1891 - 1941 NEAR TEMAGAMI June, 1939 titled, dated and stamped with the certificate of authenticitysigned by D.B. Mansur (executor of the artist's estate) on thereverse oil on panel 9,000—12,000 CAD measurements measurements 21.6 by 26.7 cm. alternate measurements 8 ½ by 10 ½ in. June, 1939 titled, dated and stamped with the certificate of authenticitysigned by D.B. Mansur (executor of the artist's estate) on thereverse oil on panel Estate of Lady Henrietta Banting, Ontario By descent in the family Private Collection, British Columbia