Joachim George Gauthier
(1897 - 1988) RCA, OSA, CSPWC
Previously Sold Works
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Swamp in Haliburton
pencil drawing
signed lower right; titled upper right; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
8.5 x 11.25 ins ( 21.6 x 28.6 cms ) ( sight )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Rocky Mountain Valley
oil on board
signed lower left; titled with the artist’s stamp on the reverse
12 x 15 ins ( 30.5 x 38.1 cms )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Portrait of A.Y. Jackson
pastel
signed and dated 1970 lower right
16 x 14 ins ( 40.6 x 35.6 cms ) ( sight )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Joachim Gauthier & Joseph Sampson, Creek in Winter, Mountain Range
two silkscreens
- “Creek in Winter” signed lower right; 10 x 11.25 ins. (sheet);
- “Mountain Range” signed lower right; 11.5 x 13.25 ins. (sheet);
each matted; each unframed
10 x 11.25 ins ( 25.4 x 28.6 cms ) ( largest )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Gatineau Hills; Smoke Creek, Algonquin Park
two graphite drawings
- “Gatineau Hills” signed lower right and titled lower left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse; 3.5 ins x 5 ins (sight);
- “Smoke Creek, Algonquin Park” signed and inscribed “no. 59” lower right and titled upper left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse; 4 ins x 5.5 ins (sight);
4 x 5.5 ins ( 10.2 x 14 cms ) ( largest (sight) )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Snowbound Village
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Pioneer Farm - Near Barry’s Bay, Ontario; Morning Haze - Greenan Lake
two oil on board
“Pioneer Farm - Near Barry’s Bay, Ontario”, signed lower right, titled on the artist’s label on the reverse
“Ontario; Morning Haze - Greenan Lake”, signed lower left; titled on the artist’s label on the reverse
12 x 15 ins ( 30.5 x 38.1 cms ) ( each )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Early April, Haliburton
oil on board
signed lower left; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Whitney, Ontario (the artist with A.Y. Jackson)
graphite
signed and inscribed “No. 10” lower right, titled and dated 1945 upper right; titled and dated on a label on the reverse
8 x 10.5 ins ( 20.3 x 26.7 cms ) ( sight )
JOACHIM GEORGE GAUTHIER
Old Farmhouse near Perkinsfield, Georgian Bay
oil on canvas on board
signed lower right; titled, dated "Sept. 1950", inscribed "with Yvon Doucet" and artist stamp on the reverse
10 x 12 in ( 25.4 x 30.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: August 20th 2024
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Joachim Gauthier Biography
(1897 - 1988) RCA, OSA, CSPWC
Who paints the painters? In the case of The Group of Seven, it was Joachim Gauthier, a former member of the Arts & Letters Club. Born in North Bay, Ontario, he had an early interest in art and in later years studied at Tacoma, Washington, USA under sculptor Victor Alonzo Lewis. He then returned to Canada and studied under Franklin Carmichael and J.E.H. MacDonald in Toronto. He worked as a commercial artist for Sampson Matthews Limited for over 37 years.
In painting he was noted as early as 1932 by A.H. Robson as one of the younger painters who had shown originality and ability. He created mostly landscapes in realistic and impressionistic styles using as media oil and watercolours. One of his major commissions, many years later, was to undertake the portraits of The Group of Seven members for the McMichael Collection in Kleinburg. The Province of Ontario presented a painting by Gauthier to Pope Paul VI; it now hangs in the Vatican.
Joe became a member of the Arts & Letters Club in 1935, resigned shortly afterwards and rejoined in 1975. He was a frequent companion of Casson, Carmichael and other Club members on sketching trips, was a member of the R.C.A. the O.S.A. and the C.S.P.W. A traditionalist, he stood somewhat aside from The Group of Seven and “admired, but never agreed with, Lawren Harris’ late preoccupation with abstract painting.”
Sources: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979; “News & Views of Club Programmes and Activities”, Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, 1988
