Ritchies Auctioneers: Sotheby's in Association with Ritchies Important Canadian Art: Lot 188
M. EMILY CARR (1871-1945)
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THE POINT (B.C. COVE) signed; titled on two labels on the reverse oil on paper 61 by 91.4 cm. 24 by 36 in. From the 1930s until the end of her life, Carr created some of her finest works using the versatile medium of oil on paper. In paintings such as The Point (B.C. Cove), the brushwork became freer, more directly expressive, and filled with movement and light. The sense of energy, the central characteristic of her work at this time, became more spontaneous, effused with joyful abandon. As Robin Laurence writes, "Carr's paintings opened up, abandoning the dark and engulfing forest, embracing wide, pulsing skies, radiant open spaces and an ecstatic's view of universal energy and mystical light, part Vincent van Gogh, part Hildegard von Bingen."
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