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Lot 189: Sir Frederick Grant Banting 1891 - 1941 Canadian

Est: $12,000 CAD - $15,000 CADSold:
HeffelVancouver, BC, CAMay 15, 2013

Item Overview

Description

Sir Frederick Grant Banting 1891 - 1941 Canadian oil on board Honey Harbour 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches 20.6 x 26 centimeters signed and on verso titled and dated 1933 on the Hart House exhibition label Literature:Michael Bliss, Banting: A Biography, 1993, page 26 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Dr. F.W.W. Hipwell, Toronto By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited:Hart House, University of Toronto, Exhibition of Paintings of the late Sir Frederick Banting, February 13 - March 1, 1943 Inscribed on verso by the artist: ""To Freddie H Aug 26 / 33, 'Many Happy Returns' as the girl said"" and also inscribed ""Dr. Hipwell, 172 Rosedale Heights Dr., Toronto"" Dr. Frederick Banting, world-famous as the co-discoverer of insulin, was also a talented artist. While practicing as a medical doctor, his interest in culture drew him to the Toronto Arts and Letters Club where, among others, he met Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson. They became friends, and Banting joined Jackson on some important sketching trips to the Arctic, Quebec and Northern Ontario, resulting in significant works for both artists. This richly colourful, atmospheric 1933 work is comparable in style and execution to some of the best sketches that Jackson painted in Georgian Bay in the mid-1930s. Honey Harbour is at the south-east end of Georgian Bay, and is dotted with countless small islands and outcrops. This painting was a gift from Banting to Dr. Fred Hipwell, his first cousin and friend, someone who "was, and always would be, his greatest chum." Dr. Hipwell and his wife were intimately involved in the progress of Banting and Dr. Charles Best in the early 1920s, as they lived near the laboratory where the discovery of insulin was made.

Auction Details

Spring Auction of Fine Canadian Art

by
Heffel
May 15, 2013, 10:00 PM PST

Heffel Gallery Limited 2247 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3G1, CA