Vendu pour : 181 250 $

PROVENANCE
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Ian M. Thom et al., Takao Tanabe, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2005, essay by Jeffrey Spalding, pages 133 and 134

Tanabe’s work has made a mark and takes its place among that by distinguished British Columbia artists such as Emily Carr, B.C. Binning, E.J. Hughes, Jack Shadbolt and Bill Reid. He pays respectful honour to predecessors who made a poignant impact upon the collective perception of the extraordinary spiritual qualities of his region. His works express a tender empathy with First Nations culture, relish splendid natural beauty and live in accord with the ever-present powerful forces of weather.

—Jeffrey Spalding

Fraser Reach is a section of Princess Royal Channel on the northern British Columbia coast. In this striking view, Takao Tanabe anchors both sides of his painting with dark and mysterious mountains, whose tree-clad flanks plunge into the deep channel of water. This large and impressive painting is more colourful than many of his coastal landscapes - dawn suffuses the sky with colour and tints the expanse of the channel, and a blue sky promises a day filled with light. Tanabe’s contemplative vision and his realist yet stylized expression of the wild coastal landscape in this radiant work make it extraordinary.

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