ARCA G7 OSA
1881 - 1969
Canadian
Moonlit Solitude
oil on board
signed and on verso titled on the gallery label and stamped with the Varley Inventory #871
12 x 15 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CAD
Sold for: $21,240
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
From 1926, when Group of Seven artist Frederick Varley arrived in Vancouver to take a teaching position at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, his approach to landscape changed in response to the British Columbia environment. Its mists and moods entered into his work in a poetic way, as he painted views of the North Shore from Jericho Beach, Rice Lake in Lynn Valley or of large inland bodies of water such as Kootenay Lake. Varley was a superb colourist, and Moonlit Solitude exhibits exquisite tones of turquoise and seagreen, clouded with subtle shades of mauve, grey and white applied with fluid brush-strokes. Atmospheric effects dominate, as Varley creates the impression of the soft motion of air and water. Floating through it dreamily is the little boat, reminiscent of B.C. Binning's iconic row boat and man image often seen in his West Coast works, the witness of the beauty of the scene.
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