Lot 33
DAVID BROWN MILNE
Provenance:
Estate of Douglas Duncan, Toronto
Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
Marlborough-Godard, Toronto/Montreal
Joy Grant, Brooklin, Ontario
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature:
David P. Silcox, Painting place: the life and work of David B. Milne, 1996, Toronto, page 141.
David B. Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Volume I: 1882 - 1928, Toronto, 1998, page 322, no.203.18, reproduced (as Leaning Gate). See also no.203.17 for another painting of this location.
Note:
Silcox (1996) writes that during the summer of 1921 Milne began to consider the process of reduction in his painting with a tendency toward more radical compositions: “Instead of level horizons and balanced forms Milne began to draw more lopsided works in which the weighting was off to the left, or to the right, or to the top, so that whatever aesthetic equilibrium was achieved had to be obtained by different equations than before. This skewing is especially seen in ... Leaning Gate...”