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Henrietta Mabel May 1884 - 1971
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 CAD
bidding is closed
Description
- Henrietta Mabel May
- Autumn
- signed lower right H. MABEL MAY; titled on a label on the reverse
- watercolour, mounted on board
- 33.1 by 35.7 cm.
- 13 1/8 by 14 1/8 in.
Provenance
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Evelyn Walters, The Women of Beaver Hall, Canadian Modernist Painters, Toronto, 2005, p. 62
Catalogue Note
May and her art are best described by fellow Beaver Hall artist, Anne Savage:
She was a brilliant figure at the gallery. She painted with such vigour and strength - gay, rhythmic colour using the impressionist's technique of scintillating colour. She spent some time in France, came back radiant - loved life - painted in the landscapes of the Eastern Townships, where she built up her singing happy pictures.
Her bright fauve colouring is very similar to paintings that Emily Carr also created on her return from France.