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ONLINE AUCTION
The World of Emily Carr
November 4 - 25, 2021

November 04 - November 25, 2021

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This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $65,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

7561 25-Nov-2021 01:19:16 PM $65,000

823342 25-Nov-2021 01:16:38 PM $60,000

7561 25-Nov-2021 01:13:40 PM $55,000

823342 25-Nov-2021 01:13:16 PM $50,000

7561 25-Nov-2021 01:12:06 PM $47,500

823342 25-Nov-2021 01:11:38 PM $45,000

7561 25-Nov-2021 01:07:08 PM $42,500

823342 25-Nov-2021 01:06:34 PM $40,000

7561 25-Nov-2021 12:56:42 PM $37,500

34813 06-Nov-2021 03:13:02 AM $35,000 AutoBid

The bidding history list updated on: Friday, March 29, 2024 04:24:05

LOT 0303

BCSFA CGP
1871 - 1945
Canadian

Cross on Market Square
watercolour on paper, 1911
signed with the estate stamp and on verso titled on the gallery label and stamped twice with the Dominion Gallery stamp
12 x 10 in, 30.5 x 25.4 cm

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000 CAD

Sold for: $79,250

Preview at:

PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wilder, Toronto

LITERATURE
Kiriko Watanabe et al., Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing—French Modernism and the West Coast, Audain Art Museum, 2019, related works repdroduced on page 54 and 55


Emily Carr traveled to the town of Concarneau in western France in September and October of 1911. She had learned of a good teacher in Concarneau, Frances Mary Hodgkins, who focused on teaching the medium of watercolour with a modernist approach. Carr was committed to working in this challenging medium during her time with Hodgkins and our work, Cross on Market Square, is from this inspired and informative period. The seaside atmosphere of the town both invigorated and relaxed Carr, as she painted the everyday surroundings and community. The location of our painting, Cross on Market Square, is the neighboring village of Lanriec, across the harbour from Concarneau and a short, local train stop away. The cross featured in our painting still stands today in the yard of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, a small church in the town.

Carr spent a few weeks in Concarneau, and then returned to Paris, where she paid for excess baggage to ship paintings and watercolours such as this work home to Canada. She returned to Canada on November 17, 1911, confidently identifying herself as a modernist and with a new perspective that greatly influenced the rest of her painting career.

For the biography on Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wilder in PDF format please click here.


All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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