Lot 75: EDWIN HEADLEY HOLGATE 1892 - 1977

MUTTON BAY
initialed l.l.: EH; signed on the reverse: Holgate Estate Stamp; also authenticated, titled and dated by the artist's wife on a label: Mutton Bay, 1932

31.8 by 40.6 cm. 12½ by 16 in.

oil on panel

Rosalind Pepall and Brian Foss, Edwin Holgate, Montreal, 2005, p. 127, cat. 64, for another image of Mutton Bay

Estate of the artist

Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal

Private Collection, Toronto

In the early 1930s, Holgate visited Mutton Bay, an isolated fishing village on the St. Lawrence River across from Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula. The village name dates from the early 1800s and may refer to sheep transported by cod fishing fleets to ensure a supply of fresh meet.