LOT DETAILS

Materials:

color woodcut on paper

Measurements:

10.51 in. (26.70 cm.) (height) by 12.52 in. (31.80 cm.) (width)

Edition:

63 of 100

Markings:

signed, titled, editioned 63/100 and inscribed with framers notes

Condition:

This work is mounted to an archival backing. Discolouration from exposure to light present at the centre of the work. Discolouration from a non-archival backing present throughout. Discolouration from mat burn present at the perimeter of the work. Foxing present along the upper edge.

Literature:

Roger Boulet, Walter J. Phillips, The Complete Graphic Works, 1981, page 496, reproduced page 497; Roger Boulet, The Tranquility and the Turbulence, 1982, reproduced page 168; Walter J. Phillips wrote about this stunning print, “I looked up Howe Sound on a grey day and saw blue-grey mountains one behind the other in receding planes each clearly differentiated. The next day the sun shone – the mountains, all save the nearest, appeared to lie on one plane, and the whole mass formed a silhouette of pale blue. They are never the same.”

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the Artist; By descent to the present Private Collection, Edmonton