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Lot #9

Artist Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith
Title Untitled - Mount Cheops
Media watercolour and charcoal on paper
Size 12.5 x 9.75 in. / 31.8 x 24.8 cm.
Frame Size 20.5 x 17 x 0.75 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed lower right; framed with archival mat

Reference
Cloud Effect on Cheops, from road to Glacier was exhibited in 1888 at the Art Rooms of Beaver Hall in Montreal, page122 in Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith by Roger Boulet, published by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1977)

Provenance
private collection, Ontario

Hammer $1,100 Estimate $1,000/$1,500

Biographical Information
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith ~ [1846-1923] Canadian OSA, SCA, RCA
see Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith [1846-1923], by R.Boulet, A.G.G.V., 1976; N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.76; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.17 for other examples; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.36; E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.26 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.27, Westbridge Pub., 1999; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., pp.28-32 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pp.26-28

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