Lot 31
  • 31

Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté 1869 - 1937

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 CAD
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Description

  • Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté
  • Peeling Apples
  • 1895

    signed and dated lower right M.A. Suzor-Cote - 95

  • oil on canvas, mounted on board
  • 33.0 by 26.0 cm.
  • 13 by 10 ¼ in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Montreal

Literature

Laurier Lacroix, Suzor-Côté Light and Matter, Ottawa, 2002, p. 224

Catalogue Note

Suzor-Côté excelled in painting genre scenes, stories of daily life.  The people he captured on canvas, the habitants, shared his heritage.  He took pride in his rural roots and delighted in portraying both family and the people in his Arthabaskan community in an elegant style engaged in their quotidien tasks.

As Lacroix capably notes, "Suzor-Côté was considered not simply a genre painter, but rather the painter of the soul, temprament and personality of French Canada's rural inhabitants."