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Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Coté (Canadian 1869-1937)

Entre Voisins (Paysans Normands)/Between Neighbours (Normandy Peasants)
oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left "A. Suzor-Coté 1900", on reverse "A. Suzor-Coté" and "A. Suzor-Coté Paris 1900 Cernay", and on stretcher "A. Suzor-Coté Paris 1900"

Exhibited:
1900 Paris, Canadian Pavilion, World Fair, Summer 1900, #56 Entre voisins (Paysans normands)/Between Neighbours (Normandy Peasants) Bronze medal

1901 Paris Salon, Salon des artists vivants-des artistes français, May-June 1901, 1893 Entre voisins, paysans normands Honourable mention

1901 Montreal Scott & Sons Gallery, September-October 1901 #1 Entre voisins “Paysans normands”

Provenance:
Pauline Laurier Harvey, possibly purchased from Scott & Sons Gallery 1901 Exhibition

Betty Harvey Mullins by descent

By descent to the current owner

The current owner’s grandmother, Pauline Laurier Harvey, was the niece of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and as an adolescent spent a great deal of time with him because her father (his brother) Henri Laurier died when she was quite young. As Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his wife Lady Zoé Laurier had no children, Pauline inherited Wilfrid Laurier House in Arthabaska, Quebec, now a National Historic Site, after Lady Laurier died in 1921.

Pauline Laurier Harvey was a childhood friend of Suzor-Coté’s and bought Between Neighbours: Norman Peasants in the early 1900’s. She lived in Westmount, Quebec for most of her married life with the painting hanging in her drawing room. Apparently while Suzor-Coté was visiting her sometime after, he entered her “salon”, saw the work and stated, “Oh Pauline you have it, that is my chef-d’doeuvre (masterpiece)”.

Pauline Laurier Harvey gifted the painting to her daughter Betty Harvey Mullins, who subsequently gifted it to her daughter.
Size: 49 1/2 h x 39 1/2 w in
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J21217 Suzor-Cote

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Grandmaison was born in Russia where he began his artistic endeavours as a child painting on the walls of his family home. Upon completing high school he served in the Russian Army for the duration of World War I. After the war he moved to England where he studied at the St. John’s Wood Art School in London, and for a while in Paris.

Grandmaison travelled to Canada in 1923, settling in Banff where his artistic expression flourished in both oils and pastels. He specialised in portraits of First Nation peoples and travelled to reservations both in Canada and the United States. Explaining his choice of subjects, Grandmaison made this statement, “…to me it is a great honour. I love them as fellow brothers. They have character, colour and history in their blood. I prefer to paint them.” He also painted portraits of prominent politicians, such as the Premier of Alberta, William Aberhart, and the former Prime Minister of Canada, R.B. Bennet. He is represented in the National Gallery of Canada and elsewhere. A number of private collectors own his works in Calgary.