signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed “890805” & “DM6464” on the reverse
22 × 30 in (55.9 × 76.2 cm)
Auction Estimate:$3,000 - $4,000
Sale date:May 20 - 28, 2015
Price Realized
$3,450
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Corporate Collection, Ontario
Literature
Stuart Reid, “Island Sketches: Thoughts on the Watercolour Paintings of Doris McCarthy”, “Celebrating Life: The Art of Doris McCarthy”, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 1999, page 36 (chronology) and pages 212, 214 and 219
McCarthy was fascinated with the Canadian Arctic and frequently returned to this subject matter. “Within all her great body of work, gleaned from her travels that have taken her around the world, perhaps the most powerful and poetic works she has completed are those which address the grand, mysterious islands of ice.” Sometimes she worked on site and other times took photographs she would later refer to in her studio. During the latter, she “relied on sensual recollections of light, the wind and weather, the character of the place.”
McCarthy visited Pangnirtung with Nancy Wright and Audrey Garwood from June 21 to July 3 in 1989, where she would have been inspired to create “Evening at Pangnirtung”. Pangnirtung is located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, and was one of McCarthy's favourite places to paint in Canada.
