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Clarence-Gagnon-etude-Galerie-Cosner par Clarence Alphonse Gagnon

Clarence-Gagnon-etude-Galerie-Cosner-art-dealer par Clarence Alphonse Gagnon

Clarence Alphonse Gagnon (1881 - 1942)

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Gallery

Espace 1130 - Cosner Gallery | Art dealers
Medium

Pencil
Time

Fine Canadian Art
Dimensions

17,8 x 11,43 cm | 7', x 4,5''
Dimensions with frame

45,7 x 36,8 cm | 18'' x 14,5''
Signed

Studio stamp lower right

The Immediacy and Subtlety of the Drawing

This work on paper by Clarence Alphonse Gagnon testifies to the artist's technical rigor and keen sense of observation. Executed in pencil, this drawing brings together several studies of figures, capturing silhouettes in motion and drapery with a remarkable economy of line. Far from academic rigidity, Gagnon here prioritizes the spontaneity of the gesture. This type of intimate exercise reveals the inner workings of his creative process, showing how the painter captured human attitudes in the moment to later nourish his major pictorial compositions.