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ONLINE AUCTION
Post-War & Contemporary Art
4th session

March 05 - March 26, 2020

LOT DETAILS
This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $9,500 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

2291 26-Mar-2020 03:57:40 PM $9,500

10417 26-Mar-2020 03:49:58 PM $9,000

2291 26-Mar-2020 12:48:27 PM $8,500

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 12:06:45

LOT 309

BCSA OC
1928 -
Canadian

Apples
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1994
48 x 48 in, 121.9 x 121.9 cm

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD

Sold for: $11,875

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PROVENANCE
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Private Collection, Ontario

LITERATURE
Linda Sawchyn, Gathie Falk: Visions, Kelowna Art Gallery, 2002, similar painting entitled Apples 21 reproduced page 4


Throughout her career, Gathie Falk has been consistently inspired by everyday life and common objects. From this inspiration, the artist plays with repetitive forms; this work, part of the celebrated Apple Series of the 1990s, is a fine example.

In Apples, we see forms suspended in time and space against a stark black background. Their forms are dynamic – round, sharp, fragmented – and no two shapes are alike. As a master sculptor, the artist’s rendering of the three dimensionality of the painted fruit is exquisite. It brings to mind her well-known “Fruit Piles”, which was first exhibited in 1970 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. A work composed of pyramids of bright apples, oranges and grapefruit made of ceramic, these colourful forms were inspired by an image of a cornerstore fruit market that had captivated the artist.


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