signed, titled, dated 1985 and numbered 20/50 in the lower margin
31.75 × 19.75 in (80.6 × 50.2 cm)
Auction Estimate:$7,000 - $9,000
Sale date:November 19, 2019
Price Realized
$11,800
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature
Michael Crummey, “Candles in the Dark”, Black Ice: David Blackwood, Prints of Newfoundland, Toronto, 2011, page 120, for the working print of this subject, illustrated plate 44, not paginated
Discussing dramatic elements of David Blackwood’s The Great Peace of Brian and Martin Winsor, Michael Crummey observes:
“Blackwood has always set the human element in his art within that same looming scale, of ocean and headland and restless night. In ‘The Great Peace of Brian and Martin Winsor’, their ‘great peace’ is dwarfed by the massive sickle blade of the whale curving over the lost hunters, by the iceberg that dominates the background.”
