Lot 74
Christopher Pratt, RCA (1935-2022)
Lot 74 Details
Christopher Pratt, RCA (1935-2022), Canadian
LABRADOR CURRENT, OCTOBER, 1973
screenprint in colours on Arches wove paper, with full margins
signed, titled, dated "Oct 1973" and numbered 4/25
image 17.75 x 17.75 in — 45.1 x 45.1 cm; sheet 20 x 20.1 in — 50.8 x 51.1 cm
Estimate $3,000-$5,000
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Provenance:
Morrison Art Gallery, Saint John, NB;
Prominent Private Collection of a former museum curator, Fredericton, NB
Note:
“The very word "Labrador" was magic to me when I was a child. That was before the Churchill Falls development or the iron mines. The tales I heard were of the coast, of heroism and hardship, of nature on a giant scale: a land where the fish were bigger, the icebergs massive, the storms unimaginable. Somehow, I felt that Newfoundland was the child of Labrador - the tail that wagged the dog. In geographical terms that is certainly true: here in St. Mary's Bay we live at a latitude south of Vancouver, yet we have plants and animals in common with the Arctic tundra. The Labrador current is a relentless flood of molten ice, the blood stream of our near subarctic climate.”
From Jay Scott and Christopher Pratt, The Prints of Christopher Pratt, 1958-1991, Catalogue Raisonné, Breakwater Books, (St. John’s: 1991), page 47, reproduced in colour.