signed lower left; an oil sketch depicting a shoreline village with figures and ducks on the reverse
11.5 × 13.5 in (29.2 × 34.3 cm)
Auction Estimate:$8,000 - $10,000
Sale date:December 6, 2023
Price Realized
$10,800
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the Artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Murray Whyte, ‘Doris McCarthy exhibit speaks to the artist as lover of life’, “Toronto Star”, June 27, 2010
Born in Calgary and raised in Toronto, Doris McCarthy is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters. In a 2004 interview with Harold Klunder, the artist remarked: “I was influenced very strongly by the tradition of going out into nature and painting what was there. I bought it. And I still buy it.” Throughout her career Doris McCarthy enjoyed many painting adventures across Canada and abroad. She went on multiple trips to villages in Newfoundland, Quebec and the Arctic to paint its wide-ranging scenery. Here, McCarthy presents a scene of an active fishing village, filled with fishing huts, barrels, boats and docks. On the reverse of the panel is another fishing village scene, likely the same location, and this time with a human and animal presence.
Doris Jean McCarthy - Fishing Village | Cowley Abbott
