Item has been sold
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas size:
57 x 81 inches (144.8 x 205.7 cm)
Provenance:
Ex-Coll. J.P.B. Day, New York City;
Frederic Wadlow, Canada, acquired circa 1948;
Private Collection, Toronto since 1974
Sale Waddingtons Toronto, 15 June 2005, Lot 1170
Exhibited:
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada,1931, #241, illustrated pg. 54 lent by J.P.B. Day, New York; Roberts Gallery, Toronto, circa 1944
Literature:
This work was featured in an article that appeared in the Toronto Telegram, July 15, 1944 accompanying this lot: "Famed Symons Painting To Be On View Here Soon, Christ in City Streets Often Adversely Criticized Before..." an article written in anticipation of the upcoming exhibition held at the Roberts Gallery, Toronto, circa 1944.