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HEFFEL FINE ART AUCTION HOUSE 43
125 EDWIN HEADLEY HOLGATE
AAM BHG CGP CSGA G7 RCA 1892 ~ 1977
Natashquan
oil on panel, initialed and on verso signed, titled,
dated 1930, inscribed with the Dominion Gallery
inventory #2394 and stamped Dominion Gallery
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in, 21.6 x 26.7 cm
PROVENANCE:
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection
Edwin Holgate’s depiction of the Canadian landscape extended from
British Columbia’s Skeena River area to the remote fishing villages of
Labrador and Quebec. He twice visited the township of Natashquan,
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on the north shore of the Jacques Cartier Strait on the Gulf of Saint
Lawrence. A traditional Acadian fishing village settled in 1855, its quaint
red~roofed, white~sided shacks ~ called magasins du Galet and also
known as The Rollers ~ were built specifically to prepare the abundant
fish that were caught in the Gulf. Holgate was on his way to Labrador
when he first stopped at Natashquan in 1930. He painted several sketches
of these picturesque shacks and the nearby village, showing white
buildings that sit in jaunty contrast to the exposed sandy bluffs and the
deep blue of the waters of the Saint Lawrence, choppy in the distance,
perhaps dotted with ice. He would visit again in 1932. These magasins du
Galet are now a historic site and look much the same as they did when
Holgate painted there.
ESTIMATE: $80,000 ~ 100,000