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David Blackwood - Master Printmaker
3rd session

February 06 - February 27, 2020

LOT DETAILS
         
         
         

This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $8,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

39089 27-Feb-2020 02:56:24 PM $8,000

37338 27-Feb-2020 02:06:01 PM $7,500

36209 27-Feb-2020 02:05:28 PM $7,000

37338 27-Feb-2020 12:50:29 PM $6,500

19624 27-Feb-2020 09:15:47 AM $6,000

39089 26-Feb-2020 08:34:15 PM $5,500

7827 26-Feb-2020 08:09:48 PM $5,000

37338 26-Feb-2020 07:59:34 PM $4,750

39089 24-Feb-2020 05:44:19 PM $4,500

37338 19-Feb-2020 07:59:31 AM $4,250

26138 10-Feb-2020 10:49:38 PM $4,000

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 03:42:35

LOT 201

CPE CSGA CSPWC OSA RCA
1941 - 2022
Canadian

For Ishmael Tiller: The Ledgy Rocks
etching and aquatint on paper
signed, titled, editioned archive a/p DB and dated 1990
35 1/2 x 23 1/2 in, 90.2 x 59.7 cm

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CAD

Sold for: $10,000

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PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, North Vancouver

LITERATURE
William Gough, David Blackwood: Master Printmaker, 2001, reproduced page 35


David Blackwood was born in 1941 in the outport community of Wesleyville, Newfoundland to a seafaring family in which his father and grandfather were both ship captains. Fishing was a way of life in Newfoundland and Blackwood's choice to become an artist was an unusual one in his small town.

Blackwood studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1959 to 1963, and his teachers included J.W.G. Macdonald and Carl Schaefer. It was here that he learned the print-making techniques and processes he has used throughout his career. It was also here that he decided to make art about his heritage - the stories of Newfoundland. His chronicles of the sea, the land, and the life of the people there, expressed through his etchings and paintings, are extraordinary. At 23 years old one of his etchings was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada. In 2000, 36 years later, the Art Gallery of Ontario created the Blackwood Research Centre and acquired a major collection of his prints. Also an educator, he taught at Trinity College School from 1963 to 1988.

Blackwood has had over 90 solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2011: Black Ice: David Blackwood, Prints of Newfoundland. His work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as in major private and public collections around the world, including the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle) and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. In 1976, the National Film Board produced a documentary film on him, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Blackwood received the Order of Canada in 1993, and in 2003 was named Honorary Chairman of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the first practicing artist to be so honoured. Blackwood currently resides in Port Hope, Ontario, as well as maintaining a studio in Wesleyville.


All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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