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LOT 123

Lot 123

JOAN WILLSHER-MARTEL

JOAN WILLSHER-MARTEL
Lot 123 Details
JOAN WILLSHER-MARTEL

TREES XIV

oil on canvas
signed with initials and dated ‘08; also signed, titled and dated 1977 on the reverse
66 ins x 64 ins; 167.6 cms x 162.6 cms

Estimate $4,000-$5,000

Realised: $7,080
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JOAN WILLSHER-MARTEL
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Provenance:

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature:

Joan Murray, Cosmic Consciousness: the Paintings of Joan Willsher-Martel, 1950-2000, Gallery Gevik, 2000, page 5.

Note:

“Willsher-Martel’s work is not so much the result of reasoning as an instinctual feeling for the place in which she grew up… What we see is mystical intuition: she is an heir to the Romantic tradition, and her work is part of a larger quest for the spirit.”

Born in Victoria in 1925, Joan Willsher-Martel moved to Toronto in 1952 with a view to become an abstract artist. Willsher-Martel developed her own artistic style inspired by the Painters Eleven and Emily Carr, infused with Pointillism and Impressionism. Her works are romantic and meticulous, resembling four-colour process inks in a Gaussian blur. Often depicting the trees and landscapes of British Columbia, Willsher-Martel’s mature works are an otherworldly homage to her birthplace.

It is not uncommon for artists to re-consider aspects of their work, as is the case with this painting, which was originally executed in 1977 and re-visited by the artist in 2008.

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