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Inventaire # AOL1119-E18189-001

CGP CSGA CSPWC
1882 - 1953
Canadien

St. Michael’s Cathedral
pointe sèche en couleur sur papier vélin Whatman
signé et édition et au verso titré, daté et inscrit
7 x 8 1/8 po, 17.8 x 20.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Rosemarie L. Tovell, Reflections in a Quiet Pool, The Prints of David Milne, National Gallery of Canada, 1980, pages 202 and 203, reproduced page 202


Tovell writes, “This is perhaps the masterpiece of all the colour drypoints. Milne has successfully married the medium to the subject. Drypoint line and burr elegantly and harmoniously articulate the style of neo-gothic architecture. The innately logical expression of the textural theme and mood is complimented and concluded by subtle variations of colouring and wiping. St. Michael’s Cathedral, at Bond and Shuter streets in the heart of downtown Toronto, served as the subject for two watercolours...All told, Milne pulled sixty impressions of this print. Fifty-three were selected for publication and the remainder, save two unsigned cancelled proofs, were destroyed. This is the second of two prints for which Douglas Duncan’s state descriptions have survived the discovery of working proofs. The edition, according to states, breaks down as follows: State I, 1/53, State II, 2/53, State III, 3/53, State IV, 4/53 - 13/53, State V, 14/53 - 24/53 and one cancelled proof; State VI, 25/53; and State VII, 26/53 - 53/53 and one cancelled proof. Duncan sold impressions of States IV - VII, with the exception of the sole State VI impression. St. Michael’s Cathedral is the last of Milne’s published prints.” As such, this beautiful drypoint is State VII.

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