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LOT 58

Lot 58

ALEXANDRA LUKE

ALEXANDRA LUKE
Lot 58 Details
ALEXANDRA LUKE

WILLOWS NEAR UXBRIDGE, ONT., 1947

oil on masonite
signed “M.McL” and dated 1947; also signed Margaret McLaughlin, titled and dated “Winter 1947” on the reverse
20 ins x 24 ins; 50.8 cms x 61 cms

Estimate $3,000-$5,000

Realised: $3,600
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Provenance:

Family of the Artist

Literature:

Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 2010, page 104.

Note:

This work is signed “M.McL.” which is how Margaret Alexandra Luke who married Clarence McLaughlin, grandson of Robert McLaughlin, originally signed her pictures. To distance herself from Isabel McLaughlin, her painter sister in-law, Margaret began in 1948 to use her middle name, Alexandra, and her birth name, Luke. She was thereafter known as Alexandra Luke.

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