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1915.71
Pine Trees at Sunset
Alternate title: Pines at Sunset
Summer 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 21 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON
Inscription verso: in graphite, Green Walls; c., 3726 (upside down)
Inscription verso: in graphite, Green Walls; c., 3726 (upside down)
Private Collection, Toronto
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Private Collection
Gweneth Clark, by descent
Sotheby's Toronto, 30 October 1990, lot 42
Sotheby's Toronto, 6 November 1991, lot 80
Private Collection, Toronto
Sotheby's Toronto, 27 November 1996, lot 62
Private collection, New York
Sotheby's Toronto, 26 May 2008, lot 17
Ash Prakash, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Published References
Murray 1999b
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 50–51 and back cover (repr. col.)Silcox 2002
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, frontispiece (repr. col.) as Pines at Sunset.Silcox 2003
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, pp. 211, 246 (repr. col.)King 2010
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, p. 415.Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 64–65 (repr. col.)Remarks
G. Blair Laing did not recall selling this work and therefore it must have come directly from the artist’s estate into the hands of a collector, likely through the good offices of Thomson’s friends in the Group of Seven.
Record last updated May 11, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Pine Trees at Sunset, Summer 1915 (1915.71)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=350 (accessed on April 26, 2024).