Title: La Boucherie

Earliest Production Date:1881 (after)

Latest Production Date:1942 (before)

Title: Napoléon Laliberté et la criée

Earliest Production Date:1881 (after)

Latest Production Date:1942 (before)

Canadian School,

Lot of 4 lithographs Illustrating "Maria Chapdelaine", "La Boucherie" Epreuve HC VI/X, "Le Docteur" (2) Epreuve de presse, "Napoleon Liberte raconte les nouvelle du village" Epreuve HC VI/X, rev S

Gagnone illustrated Louis Hémon’s "Maria Chapdelaine" in 1933, published by Mornay of Paris. Contrary to regular practice, he kept the originals and he had written into the contract that the plates were to be destroyed and the originals to remain his property. Later they were to be purchased by the Quebec Minister of Fine Arts, but he died and the transaction never went through, and they were finally purchased by Col. R.S. McLaughlin.
 

A native of Montreal, he studied at the Art Association of Montreal in 1897. Early in life, his mother had encouraged him to learn drawing and painting, but his father wanted him to become a businessman.

Desiring to improve his knowledge about art, he went to the Académie Julian, Paris, and studied under Jean-Paul Laurens from 1904 to 1905.

He then lived in Baie-Saint-Paul, where he produced many paintings depicting nature and the Canadian people. He invented a new kind of winter landscape that consisted of mountains, valleys, sharp contrasts, vivid colours, and sinuous lines. He became a member of the Royal Academy of the Arts in 1910.

Gagnon took a trip to Venice, Rouen, Saint-Malo and the Laurentians to paint landscapes. He illustrated the pages of the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon. As well, he was the illustrator for Louis-Frédéric Rouquette in 1929 in the white silence. He lived in France from 1924 to 1936.

Gagnon opened modernity painting within Canada. He died in 1942. One of his disciples is the painter René Richard.

There are three 'Galerie Clarence Gagnon', one in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, in 1974, another one in Outremont, Quebec, and the last in Montreal in 1981.

Galerie Clarence Gagnon has a bust in his memory located in the city of Quebec.

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Other works by Gagnon:

En novembre, 1904-1905 Etching, aquatint, roulette and drypoint. 13.9 x 21 cm (platemark). Signed GALERIE WALTER KLINKHOFF	Luxembourg Gardens, 1904-1905. Signed by the artist lower right and dated GALERIE WALTER KLINKHOFF	Granada, 1904-1905. Etching and aquatint. 10 x 11.3 cm (platemark) GALERIE WALTER KLINKHOFF	WINTER LANDSCAPE EST. $2000 / 3000	Lot 157 L’ORAGE 1907 Realized price 1,416 CAD Dimensions: sight 5 1/2" x 6 1/4" Medium: etching, with atelier stamp Joyner Canadian Fine Art Auction at Joyner Waddington's Jun. 01, 2010
LOT 18 VILLARS, SUISSE (1911), Oil on panel, certified by Lucile Rodier Gagnon (no.457) on the reverse Size: 6" x 9 1/4" Auction Estimate: $10000 / $15000 Joyner Canadian Fine Art Auction - Friday, November 25th 2011	LOT 57 A SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘05 Size 21 1/2" x 32" Auction Estimate: $30000 / $40000 Joyner Canadian Fine Art Auction - Friday, November 25th 2011	Lot Number: 121 Environs de Baie-Saint-Paul 1913 Size:21 3/8 x 25 3/4" Oil on canvas Signed Realized Price: 315,900 CAD Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 CAD Heffel Fine Canadian Art Nov 24, 2011	Lot Number: 122 Schooners in Ice Floes, Baie St. Paul Size: 16.2 by 23.5" Oil on panel Realized Price: 36,000 CAD Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 CAD Sotheby's Toronto Canadian Art Date: Nov 28, 2011

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