Vendu pour : 46 800 $

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Vancouver
Sold sale of Important Canadian Art, Sotheby's Canada, May 24, 2000, lot 148
Private Collection, Toronto

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Emily Carr, Growing Pains, 1946, page 277

When Emily Carr was living and working in Vancouver from 1906 to 1910, she started giving her own art classes from her studio. She took her students outside to sketch en plein air, to the woods and along the waterfront, painting with them. As she relates, “we clambered up and down wooded banks solid now with Vancouver’s commercial buildings…Vancouver was then only a little town, but it was growing hard.” Carr also traveled across the inlet to visit her Salish friend Sophie at the reserve in North Vancouver. This atmospheric watercolour shows an early dock structure with a view of the North Shore, a historic reminder of the early state of this now densely populated port city. Works such as this show the influence of the English watercolour tradition in which Carr had previously been trained. The effect of the shimmering water and billowing clouds shows her fine grasp of both sea and mountain atmospheres in this soft and natural harbour scene.

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