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
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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.
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