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Current bid: $1,200 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

24344 24-Sep-2020 01:05:29 PM $1,200 AutoBid

14821 24-Sep-2020 12:57:44 PM $1,100

15314 24-Sep-2020 12:55:04 PM $1,000 AutoBid

14821 24-Sep-2020 12:55:04 PM $900

15314 23-Sep-2020 03:05:53 PM $800 AutoBid

14731 10-Sep-2020 08:13:30 PM $700

24344 04-Sep-2020 10:34:34 AM $600 AutoBid

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, October 31, 2024 07:16:27

LOT 009

CPE OC
1923 - 2008
Canadian

The Candle Sellers
oil on board
signed and dated 1959 and on verso titled and inscribed "517 Lansdowne Ave., Westmount. #D" on a label, inscribed "D", numbered "BG-T-1959-02" on a label and stamped "Studio Betty Goodwin"
10 x 7 1/4 in, 25.4 x 18.4 cm

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,600 CAD

Sold for: $1,500

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PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist


At the beginning of her career, at the close of the Second World War, Betty Goodwin was especially concerned with art’s purpose. Like many other artists of her generation, she saw painting as a political and social act that could reconnect the individual to a greater collective purpose. Thus, in the early 1950s, she worked in the Social Realist tradition, depicting the continued struggle of the working class and wartime immigrants.

Dating from 1959, The Candle Sellers is a later example of Goodwin’s concern with the working class strife. It is also at a junction between her earlier Social Realist portraits of workers - such as Untitled (Lot 014 in this sale) – and her later, more abstracted works. Here, Goodwin has practically erased the faces of the two anonymous candle sellers, and has placed them in a nondescript space. By erasing any reference to time, character or place, Goodwin has made this work universal, grounding it in a shared sense of humanism.


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