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LOT 237

BCSFA CGP OC RCA
1913 - 2007
Canadien

The Crofton Waterfront
huile sur toile
signé, daté et inscrit et au verso signé, titré, daté, inscrit et étampé
32 x 48 po, 81.3 x 121.9 cm

Estimation : 150 000 $ - 200 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 153 400 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Peter and Joanne Brown Collection, Vancouver
Sold sale of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Wednesday, November 23, 2016, lot #237
Private Collection, British Columbia

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Jacques Barbeau, The E.J. Hughes Album: The Paintings, Volume 1, 1932 - 1991, 2011, reproduced page 57


Crofton, a small town on the eastern shore of Vancouver Island, was a short distance from E.J. Hughes’s home at Shawnigan Lake. Its harbour was active with marine traffic—from pleasure craft, fishing boats and freighters transporting lumber to ferries plying Stuart Channel, between Crofton and Saltspring Island. Here, Hughes deftly captures Crofton’s nautical atmosphere in a scene full of fascinating detail. Beside the skeleton of a beached boat sinking into the sand in the foreground, logs escaped from booms pull the viewer’s eye straight to the jaunty bright white and red boat mid-ground and the man close by on shore. In the background is the industrial dock with piled lumber and a waiting freighter. All these elements are arranged with a sense of natural order in Hughes’s finely honed composition, and there is much for the eye to absorb as we move through successive layers of this scene. Hughes captures this small community’s industriousness and its relationship with the sea, giving the viewer a sense of both vitality and tranquility.


Estimation : 150 000 $ - 200 000 $ CAD

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