A spring sale presents key Indigenous and international artworks at a live event in Toronto. Featured works include a late-career Impressionist landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created after he sought a milder climate in the South of France and shifted toward looser composition and heightened attention to light and color. A Modernist portrait by Vincent van Gogh depicts Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet and was produced during Van Gogh’s treatment in Auvers-sur-Oise after confinement in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The portrait uses graphic, highly stylized forms to convey layered emotional tension and reflect Van Gogh’s psychological state through Gachet’s visage. The sale also includes an illustration figure associated with the American West’s Golden Age of Illustration.
"After developing arthritis, he sought out a milder climate in the South of France, and he was deeply inspired by the natural landscapes of the region. Taking on a looser approach to composition and leaning into the experiential aspect of light and color, works like Paysage du Midi exemplify this late-career transformation."
"Produced in a period following a year of confinement at an asylum in Sain-Rémy-de-Provence, Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was created while the artist was under the treatment of the work's titular doctor Paul-Ferdinand Gachet in Auvers-sur-Oise. It is a remarkable testament to the artist's life and practice-as well as the development of Modernism itself-as in the doctor's care Van Gogh's creative pursuits were supported alongside treatment of his mental health."
"Graphic and highly stylized, the piece is coveys layers of fraught emotion, translating the artist's own psychological state through the visage of Gachet."
"Hailing from the American "Golden Age of Illustration," Philip Russell Goodwin (1881-1935) was a defining figure in the collective imagination of the American West."
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