Lot 13
BARKER FAIRLEY, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Gary Michael Dault, “Barker Fairley,” review, Canadian Art magazine, Spring 1987, pages 99-100.
Note:
Gary Michael Dault has described Fairley’s paintings as “assured and economical.”
“The landscape,” he quotes Fairley as saying, “is the great Canadian fact.” Dault writes: “That’s the way [Fairley] painted it: boldly and simply and eloquently and with a vision unmediated by self-conscious decorativeness.”