OC RCA
1942 - 2019
Canadian
Emily
bronze sculpture with patina
signed, editioned 3/7 and dated 2005
30 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in, 77.5 x 26.7 x 21.6 cm
Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000 CAD
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PROVENANCE
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
Private Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Mayo Graham, editor, Joe Fafard: The Bronze Years, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1996, page 31
Starting in the 1980s, Joe Fafard produced a series of artist portraits, cast in bronze in the foundry he had built in Pense, Saskatchewan. He sculpted famed international artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, as well as West Coast icon Emily Carr. In this moving portrait of Carr, Fafard depicts her with pencil in hand and a paper tablet under her arm, a reference to either her drawings or the many autobiographical books she wrote, such as Klee Wyck. She has a sensitive, open expression on her face, which draws the empathy of the viewer. Carr reveals her softer side, likely because Fafard produced this individual cast of Emily from the large sculpture Emily Carr and Friends, which shows the artist with her horse, her monkey Woo and her dog Billie – animals that Carr loved. Fafard utilized a rough-hewn style in the treatment of this bronze casting, in keeping with Carr’s down-to-earth approach to her sketching, for she often camped and hiked in the woods to create her images.
Emily Carr and Friends was chosen by Heffel to be its signature sculpture, with three bronzes from the edition of seven installed outside its Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal locations.
Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000 CAD
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