BCSFA CGP
1871 - 1945
Canadian
Alert Bay (Indian in Yellow Blanket)
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled, dated 1912 on the National Gallery of Canada exhibition label, inscribed with the Dominion Gallery Inventory #62d and "$150.00" (painted over) and variously and stamped Dominion Gallery
34 1/2 x 14 1/2 in, 87.6 x 36.8 cm
Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CAD
Sold for: $1,681,250
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PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Acquired from the above by Abraham Albert Heaps (1885 – 1954), Ottawa, 1946
Victor Podoski, Ottawa, circa 1955
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario
LITERATURE
Doris Shadbolt, Emily Carr, National Gallery of Canada, 1990, listed in addendum, unpaginated, and a similar 1912 canvas, Alert Bay (with Welcome Figure), reproduced page 106
EXHIBITED
Dominion Hall, Vancouver, Paintings of Indian Totem Poles and Indian Life by Emily Carr, April 1913
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Emily Carr, June 29 – September 3, 1990, catalogue #22
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Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CAD
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