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Current bid: $4,000 CAD
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Paddle # Date Amount

32062 28-May-2020 01:14:01 PM $4,000

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 07:30:16

LOT 211

ARCA CGP CSGA CSPWC OSA P11
1909 - 1977
Canadian

Evensong at St.Thomas's, Toronto
watercolour on paper
signed, titled, dated 1947 and Dec./47 and inscribed "27" and on verso titled
17 3/4 x 23 3/4 in, 45.1 x 60.3 cm

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CAD

Sold for: $5,000

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PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
Estate of the Artist
Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Marc Mayer and Sarah Stanners, Jack Bush, National Gallery of Canada, 2014, reproduced page 126

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Jack Bush, November 13, 2014 to February 22, 2015


Though distinctly different in tone from the effervescent abstraction he is best known for, what could be termed as Jack Bush’s “Spiritual Period” is essential to understanding the full arc of Bush as an artist and as a human. Bush was raised in the High Anglican tradition, which in its ritual and ceremony is the nearest branch of Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. Its dramatic focus on suffering and guilt imprinted itself deeply on the artist, and found a voice in this period of his work. Importantly, this phase came at a time that immediately preceded Bush's break from representational art, which had been his practice for nearly two decades. The expressionist rendering of the cross beams above the nave and the three figures at the altar results in a somber and theatrical depiction of Toronto’s St. Thomas’s Church. This work hung in the National Gallery of Canada’s renowned retrospective of Bush’s work held in 2015.

This work will be included in Sarah Stanners’s forthcoming "Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné".


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