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March 04 - March 25, 2021

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Current bid: $70,000 CAD
Bidding History
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10 25-Mar-2021 01:29:57 PM $70,000

1709 25-Mar-2021 01:20:18 PM $65,000

10 25-Mar-2021 01:09:27 PM $60,000

1709 25-Mar-2021 01:08:25 PM $55,000

10 25-Mar-2021 01:05:35 PM $50,000

1709 25-Mar-2021 01:05:05 PM $47,500

14592 25-Mar-2021 01:04:47 PM $45,000

1709 25-Mar-2021 01:01:40 PM $42,500

14592 25-Mar-2021 01:01:27 PM $40,000

1709 25-Mar-2021 12:59:11 PM $37,500

14592 25-Mar-2021 12:58:39 PM $35,000

10 25-Mar-2021 12:32:46 PM $32,500

26490 25-Mar-2021 11:01:55 AM $30,000

10 23-Mar-2021 06:58:49 PM $27,500

39164 23-Mar-2021 08:32:01 AM $25,000

36844 09-Mar-2021 12:34:55 PM $22,500

23226 09-Mar-2021 12:34:14 PM $20,000 AutoBid

36844 09-Mar-2021 12:34:14 PM $19,000

23226 05-Mar-2021 12:40:09 PM $18,000 AutoBid

10 05-Mar-2021 12:40:09 PM $17,000 AutoBid

23226 05-Mar-2021 12:39:52 PM $16,000 AutoBid

10 05-Mar-2021 12:39:52 PM $15,000 AutoBid

23226 05-Mar-2021 12:39:52 PM $14,000 AutoBid

10 05-Mar-2021 12:39:52 PM $13,000 AutoBid

23226 05-Mar-2021 12:39:12 PM $12,000 AutoBid

10 05-Mar-2021 12:39:12 PM $11,000 AutoBid

23226 04-Mar-2021 10:07:46 PM $10,000 AutoBid

The bidding history list updated on: Friday, March 29, 2024 11:59:15

LOT 005

CSPWC OC OSA RCA
1910 - 2010
Canadian

Broughton at Breakup Time
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled, dated 1985 on the gallery label and inscribed "850314"
42 x 54 in, 106.7 x 137.2 cm

Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CAD

Sold for: $85,250

Preview at:

PROVENANCE
Aggregation Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Nancy Campbell, Doris McCarthy: Roughing It in the Bush, Doris McCarthy Gallery, 2010, page 17 and a similar work entitled Broughton Floes in Spring Fog reproduced page 24


Inspired by the Group of Seven and later, the tradition of landscape painting, Doris McCarthy was familiar with the canon of Canadian artists who used the land as their inspiration.

Throughout her life, McCarthy took painting trips within Canada and abroad, and by the 1950s she was an established painter. In 1972, when Doris McCarthy retired from her 42-year career as an art teacher, she made her first trip to the Arctic. Her experience there moved her both intellectually and emotionally, and in her painting, she revisited her earlier artistic explorations of form and colour.

In Broughton at Breakup Time, McCarthy’s strong sense of form, characteristic of her oeuvre, manifests in the solid, sculpted shapes of the ice pans, backed by a distant mountain range. Nancy Campbell explains that, “Because her work documents the landscape of Canada and beyond, Doris McCarthy is not, strictly speaking, an abstract artist. But neither is she a landscape painter in the conventional sense. Her strength lies in binding the two, and her most successful landscapes are abstracted while remaining highly specific. One can imagine viewing the scene that the artist is painting, and standing where she stood.”

The Aggregation Gallery later became Wynick/Tuck Gallery, which continued to represent Doris McCarthy throughout her life.


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