BCSFA CGP CPE CSGA CSPWC RCA
1922 - 2014
Canadian
Grain Boats, Vancouver
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled
22 x 30 in, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD
Sold for: $16,380
Preview at: Heffel Vancouver
PROVENANCE
Kastel Gallery Inc., Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal
After time spent abroad as an official war artist during World War II, Molly Lamb Bobak returned to Vancouver with her husband, artist Bruno Bobak. They lived in the West End while they were building a small cottage on her mother’s property on Galiano Island, and from 1947 to 1950 Molly taught at the Vancouver School of Art. During this time, she recounted that she often took her young son to English Bay, and the vantage point of this work, looking out over freighters waiting to unload at the port, to the mountains of Vancouver Island, is likely from one of the beaches that stretch from English Bay to Third Beach. Bobak is known for her vibrant beach scenes, and her inclusion of people with their bright clothing infuses the pulse of humanity. She captures the transcendent beauty of West Coast light in the moody sky, illuminated along the horizon with golden and mauve tints, above an emerald ocean. Bobak exhibits her fine painterly ability in the exquisite handling of reflections on wet sand and in the expressionist brush-strokes that define the mercurial sky.
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD
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