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LOT 517

BCSFA CGP CSPWC OC RCA
1909 - 1998
Canadian

Edge of the Dark
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1949 and on verso signed and inscribed "25"
43 x 36 in, 109.2 x 91.4 cm

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

Sold for: $25,000

Preview at: Heffel Vancouver

PROVENANCE
The Collection of Torben V. Kristiansen, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Anthony Emery, Jack Shadbolt, The Vancouver Art Gallery and National Gallery of Canada, 1969, the ink and gouache version reproduced page 35
Scott Watson, Jack Shadbolt, 1990, page 67, the ink and gouache version reproduced page 67


Shadbolt wrote in 1951, describing Edge of the Dark:

"One would hazard a guess that the factor which puts an artist philosophically nearest in touch with the core theme of our present period is his intuitive recognition of the picture area as a void of solitude across which forms are reaching to touch tips in human communion. Their reaching and stretching, their gesticulating to attract one another across intervening space is the secret paraphrase of our need to commune across the vast, uncertain reaches of our spiritual insecurity, of our longing to clasp hands in the reassurance of a collective belief"

For the biography on Torben V. Kristiansen in PDF format, please click here.


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