signed, titled, dated April 1993 and inscribed “Painted in Charlottetown, PEI” on the reverse
43 × 56 in (109.2 × 142.2 cm)
Auction Estimate:$5,000 - $7,000
Sale date:November 19 - 28, 2014
Price Realized
$3,910
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Winnipeg
Literature
Joan Murray, “Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century”, Toronto, 1999, page 203
Referencing the level of realism in Thauberger's “dead-pan paintings of local architecture”, Joan Murray notes that the artist appropriates his images “from sources like a postcard, colour television, or ‘Field & Stream’ magazine. Thauberger's attachment to place, and his adversarial relationship with high-art modernist culture as dictated by New York, recalls the art of [Greg] Curnoe, but his formal invention – basing his art on techniques characteristic of popular culture such as stencilling – and the approach of his images to folk art is more satirical.”
