John Goodwin Lyman

Lot # 110 John Goodwin Lyman CAS CGP EGP FRSA 1886 - 1967 Canadian Group on Provincetown Beach oil on canvas board signed and on verso titled variously, inscribed with the Dominion Gallery inventory #H3182 and stamped Dominion Gallery, Montreal 12 x 16 in 30.5 x 40.6cm Provenance: Dominion Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Quebec Private Collection, Vancouver Literature: Louise Dompierre, John Lyman 1886 - 1967, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1986, page 91, similar works entitled The Beach, St-Jean-de-Luz reproduced page 138 and The Beach, St-Jean-de-Luz II reproduced page 139 The tradition of beach scenes in art history goes back to Eugène Boudin in the mid-nineteen century and to the beautiful, atmospheric scenes of leisure so beautifully portrayed by the French Impressionists such as Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. The concept of spending summer holidays at the seaside is quite a modern one, and John Lyman embraced this subject, painting beach scenes in locations ranging from France to North America. An inheritance gave Lyman financial freedom, and he was a very cosmopolitan man, taking many sojourns abroad. As Louise Dompierre writes, "the leisurely contemplation of human nature and of nature generally" reflected the predilections of his lifestyle. Lyman was a modernist and a founder of Montreal's Contemporary Arts Society. Although he chose not to venture into abstraction, he was keenly aware of the relationships created by line and colour. He stated that he needed to reflect his interior life through the images of exterior life. Group on Provincetown Beach, infused with a mood of sweet reverie and the pleasure of a day at the beach, is a fine example of his beach scenes.

Lot # 539 John Goodwin Lyman CAS CGP EGP FRSA 1886 - 1967 Canadian Boat Race oil on board signed and on verso titled on the gallery label 5 1/2 x 7 in 14 x 17.8cm Provenance: Dominion Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal Estimate: $3,000 ~ $4,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

Lot # 147 John Goodwin Lyman CAS CGP EGP FRSA 1886 - 1967 Canadian Willoughby Lake oil on panel signed and on verso titled and inscribed "#25" and in graphite onthe frame "Dallsville 1915" 13 x 16 in 33 x 40.6cm Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, acquired January 1951 for$125 Estate of Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Montreal Literature: Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Personal Art Collection Catalogue,reproduced, unpaginated, catalogue #R24

Lot # 171 John Goodwin Lyman CAS CGP EGP FRSA 1886 - 1967 Canadian Low Tide oil on board signed and on verso titled and stamped Dominion Gallery,Montreal 7 x 18 in 17.8 x 45.7cm Provenance: Dominion Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal John Lyman was a painter, critic and an important advocate ofmodern art in Montreal. Lyman spent time in Paris - meeting HenriMatisse through his studies at the Académie Matisse - and traveledthroughout Europe and North Africa. He also visited Bermuda and LosAngeles. Upon his return to Montreal in 1931, he established TheAtelier in cooperation with Hazen Sise, George Holt and AndréBieler, which held art classes, lectures and exhibitions. In 1936he began writing art reviews for The Montrealer newspaper and in1939 formed the Contemporary Arts Society to bring together Englishand French speaking artists in Montreal. Lyman was completelybilingual and this group brought together such disparate artists asGoodridge Roberts and Paul-Émile Borduas, with a common interest insurmounting differences and fostering a free evolution inpainting. Low Tide is characterized by a bold simplicity of form and asensual atmosphere that captures the bathers' enjoyment of thissun-drenched day at the beach. It is a charming work that showcasesLyman's confident use of heightened colour such as in the pinksand, plum coloured wet sand and bright green moss-coveredrocks.

Lot # 164 John Goodwin Lyman CAS CGP EGP FRSA 1886 - 1967 Canadian Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Singer oil on canvas board signed and on verso titled and dated 1960 24 x 18 in 61 x 45.7cm Provenance: Dominion Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Alberta John Lyman had an interest in exotic locales, having traveled,while residing in Europe from 1919 to 1931, to North Africa andBermuda. In the 1960s he often wintered in the Caribbean. Theinspiration for this bold and colourful work is thought to beBarbados or St. Lucia, where he spent the winter of 1960.