Lot 28
MARC-AURELE DE FOY SUZOR-COTE, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
William R. Watson (The Watson Art Galleries), Montreal
By descent to the present owner
Literature:
Hugues de Jouvancourt, Suzor-Cote, Montreal, 1967, page 53, illustrated.
William R. Watson, Retrospective, Recollections of a Montreal Art Dealer, Toronto, 1974, page 48.
Laurier Lacroix, Suzor-Cote: light and matter, Musee du Quebec, Quebec, 2002, pages 235-238 (chapter entitled The Old Canadian Pioneer and his companion) and page 237, cat.no.78, illustrated.
Note:
This bronze, which has remained in the Watson family to the present day, is mentioned in Watson’s Recollections, where he writes of Suzor-Cote, “One of my most lively French-Canadian friends for over thirty years...I think he will be remembered principally as a true Quebec sculptor...the famous pair of Old Pioneers (old man Cyr and his wife in rocking chairs) will remain as unusual works of essentially Canadian art.”