Sarah Margaret A. Robertson

Lot # 632 Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson BHG CGP 1891 - 1948 Canadian Wharf, Cap � l'Aigle, PQ oil on board on verso signed and titled and titled on the gallery label 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in 20.6 x 26cm Provenance: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal Private Collection, Toronto Estimate: $5,000 ~ $7,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

Lot # 637 Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson BHG CGP 1891 - 1948 Canadian Wharf, Cap à l'Aigle, PQ oil on board on verso signed and titled and titled on the gallery label 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in 20.6 x 26cm Provenance: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal Private Collection, Toronto Estimate: $6,000 ~ $8,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

LOT 46 SARAH MARGARET ARMOUR ROBERTSON BARNS, oil on panel, another work entitled APPLE BLOSSOMS - CONGREGATION OF NOTRE DAME, oil on panel, signed on the reverse 10" x 12"; 25 cm x 30 cm Auction Estimate: $15000 / $20000 Provenance: Family of the artist. A.K. Prakash and Associates, Toronto. Private Collection, Winnipeg. Literature: A.K. Prakash, Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists, Richmond Hill, Ontario, 2008, pages 148-150. In his chapter devoted to the artist, A.K. Prakash writes, “In the variety of her work and ability to convey the spirit of her vibrant inner life, Sarah Robertson ranks among the foremost members of the Montreal school of painters of the 1930s. Her approach transformed scenes of everyday life into a visual language centred on form and supported by strong design and elegant colour. It is likely that Robertson was influenced by folk art, but from it she evolved her own scaled-down version of decorative colour and simplified figures.” Barns, the recto side of this charming double-sided panel, displays effectively the traits noted by Prakash. Apple Blossoms – Congregation of Notre Dame, the image found on the reverse of the painting, relates in subject to Mother House, Nuns of the Congregation (circa 1932), reproduced in A.K. Prakash, Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists. The author discusses the marvelous small painting, noting how this image of nuns at work in the garden, “may have embodied homage to the spiritual life that, with its forbearance and sacrifice, was in some ways similar to her own life as an artist.” Although a “shy and reticent woman”, Robertson’’’’s works are imbued with strong colouring and rhythmic brushstrokes.

LOT 110 SARA MARGARET ARMOUR ROBERTSON VIEW OF MURRAY BAY, P.Q., FROM CAP A L’’’’AIGLE, oil on panel,signed 8 1/4" x 10 3/4"; 20.6 cm x 26.9cm Auction Estimate: $8000 / $10000 Provenance: Private Collection, Calgary. Literature: A.K. Prakash, Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists,Richmond Hill, Ontario, 2008, pages 307-312. Robertson exhibited with the original Beaver Hall Group in theearly 1920s and was part of the network of women artists thatcontinued for years informally under that name. Prakash writes thatdue to her own ill health and the time she spent caring for hersick mother, Robertson found little time to make art: “As a result,her output was small...”

LOT 143 SARA MARGARET ROBERTSON HOMESTEAD BY A STREAM, oil on panel, signed 9 1/2" x 13"; 23.8 cm x 32.5 cm Auction Estimate: $5000 / $7000 Provenance: Private Collection, Quebec City. Born in Montreal, Robertson studied under Brymner, Cullen, Hewton and was influenced by A.Y. Jackson. She was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Beaver Hall Hill Group. A retrospective of her work was held at the National Gallery of Canada in 1951.