Maurice Galbraith Cullen

Lot # 140 Maurice Galbraith Cullen AAM RCA 1866 - 1934 Canadian Palisades Through the Trees oil on board signed and on verso titled on the gallery labels, inscribed "No. 17, January 1925" on the Watson Galleries label and "Chairman's lounge" and certified by Cullen Inventory #1394 11 3/4 x 16 1/4 in 29.8 x 41.3cm Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation Maurice Cullen, an important Canadian Impressionist, had absorbed the tenets of this movement while studying in Paris. Painting out-of-doors and capturing the moment in the landscape with its ephemeral effects of light were a vital part of his work. Mountains such as the Palisades, often seen from Lac Tremblant or the Cache River, are a recurring element of Cullen's Laurentian compositions, captured here with mysterious, deep-shadowed cobalt hues. Estimate: $10,000 ~ $15,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

Lot # 015 Maurice Galbraith Cullen AAM RCA 1866 - 1934 Canadian The Mill Pond oil on canvas board signed and on verso titled on the gallery label 15 1/2 x 18 in 39.4 x 45.7cm Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal Private Collection, Toronto Estimate: $14,000 ~ $16,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

Lot # 311 Maurice Galbraith Cullen AAM RCA 1866 - 1934 Canadian Cache River oil on panel signed and on verso titled and certified by Cullen Inventory #886 5 7/8 x 6 7/8 in 14.9 x 17.5cm Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto Estimate: $8,000 ~ $10,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

LOT 21 MAURICE GALBRAITH CULLEN, R.C.A. EARLY MARCH ON THE CACHE RIVER, pastel, signed, Cullen Inventory No.1584 30" x 40"; 75 cm x 100 cm Auction Estimate: $40000 / $50000 Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal. Exhibited: 11th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Pastels by Maurice Cullen, RCA, Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, 14-24 January, 1933 (as The Cache River in Early March). Literature: William R. Watson, Retrospective: Recollections of a Montreal Art Dealer, Toronto, 1974, chapter 4 (Maurice Cullen), pages 30-39. Sylvia Antoniou, Maurice Cullen, Kingston, 1982. Cullen and William Watson, the art dealer, developed a rather special relationship combining friendship and business. Watson’’’’s support and promotion of the artist’’’’s Laurentian landscapes played an important role in Cullen’’’’s career. Cullen often confessed his pleasure in the flexibility of pastels and, as Watson writes, he explored the wide subtleties of tone attainable only in this medium. It is probably in his depictions of the Laurentians that Cullen achieved his greatest success. Watson points out that the artist made a long and special study of ice formation and ice colour: “There is the steel-blue of mid-winter ice…Cullen loved the joyous flashes of sunlight, the glow of snow, the gleam of ice, the tumult of the freed river in the springtime…He taught us to see beauty where we had only thought of cold.”

LOT 29 MAURICE GALBRAITH CULLEN 1866 - 1934 ABLAIN, ST. NAZAIRE 1918 titled in pencil on the reverse oil on panel 8,000—12,000 CAD measurements measurements 24.8 by 35.6 cm. alternate measurements 9 ¾ by 14 in. titled in pencil on the reverse The Park Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Sylvia Antoniou, Maurice Cullen, 1866-1934, Agnes EtheringtonArt Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, 1982, pp. 36 and 55 Ablain St. Nazaire, near Vimy Ridge, is a farming village whichwas virtually destroyed during the First World War. Cullen received his commission as a war artist in February 1918.He was 52 years old at the time and was one of the first fourartists appointed by the Canadian War Memorials Fund. The churchdepicted in this lot is also the subject of a monumental canvas byJ.W. Beatty in 1918, now in the collection of the Canadian WarMuseum, and a watercolour by David Milne, also a war artist, in theNational Gallery. According to Antoniou, the sketches and related works producedby Cullen during this brief period depicting Ablain St. Nazaire andother French villages "bear no dates - just names - but the authorhas been able to place them in the time period of June 18 - July18, 1918."