The Art of Canada Auction - Monday 30 May 2016 at 7 pm
132 ALAN CASWELL COLLIER, O.S.A., R.C.A. WILDERNESS WOODLAND oil on canvas signed 24 ins x 32 ins; 61 cms x 81.3 cms Provenance: Roberts Gallery Limited, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto $4,000–6,000
133 PARASKEVA PLISTIK CLARK, O.S.A., R.C.A. UNTITLED - LANDSCAPE oil on masonite signed and dated ‘50 16 ins x 20 ins; 40.6 cms x 50.8 cms Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto Literature: Mary E. MacLachlan, Paraskeva Clark: Paintings and Drawings, (catalogue), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., 1982, pages 17 and 29. Note: Paraskeva Clark credits art dealer Douglas Duncan as “the climate that was beneficial to my taking roots in the Canadian soil.” Duncan purchased the artist’s first Canadian landscape (now in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario), after she had emigrated from St. Petersburg via Europe to settle in Toronto. Mary MacLachlan writes: “In spite of her stated intention to serve humanity through art, and her criticism of painters who neglected still life, portrait and narrative subjects, the greatest volume of Paraskeva’s work of over forty years is landscape.” Clark explained: “I really have a sort of religious feeling towards (nature).” $5,000–7,000
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