BCSFA CGP OC RCA
1913 - 2007
Canadian
Steamers
graphite on paper board
signed and dated 1948 and on verso titled, dated and inscribed with the Dominion Gallery inventory #A1338 on the gallery label
19 7/8 x 29 7/8 in, 50.5 x 75.9 cm
Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Montreal
PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Barbeau Owen Foundation Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Doris Shadbolt, E.J. Hughes, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1967, the related 1948 canvas titled Coastal Boats Near Sidney, BC reproduced, unpaginated
Ian M. Thom, E.J. Hughes, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002, reproduced page 47 and on the back cover (detail), dated 1947, and the related canvas reproduced page 83 and on the front cover (detail)
Jacques Barbeau, A Journey with E.J. Hughes: One Collector's Odyssey, 2005, reproduced page 2 and listed page 165, dated 1947
Jacques Barbeau, The E.J. Hughes Album, Volume 1, The Paintings, 1932 – 1991, 2011, the related canvas reproduced page 10
Jacques Barbeau, E.J. Hughes Through the Decades, Volume 2, The Paper Works, 1931 - 1986, 2014, reproduced page 31 and listed page 84, dated 1947
Robert Amos, The E.J. Hughes Book of Boats, 2020, the related canvas reproduced page 66
EXHIBITED
Vancouver Art Gallery, E.J. Hughes, January 30 - June 8, 2003, traveling to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, November 29, 2003 - February 15, 2004, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, March 11 - June 13, 2004
For full cataloguing, essay and images in PDF format, please click here.
For the biography on Jacques Barbeau and Margaret Owen Barbeau in PDF format please click here.
Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000 CAD
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