Lot 142: Christopher Pratt 1935 - Canadian screenprint Gaspé Passage

Christopher Pratt 1935 - Canadian screenprint Gaspé Passage
16 x 30 inches 40.6 x 76.2 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 35/45 and dated 1981 and on verso titled, editioned on the gallery label and dated Literature:Jay Scott and Christopher Pratte, The Prints of Christopher Pratt 1958 - 1991, Mira Godard Gallery, page 76, reproduced page 76 and listed page 114 Provenance:Acquired from Mira Godard Gallery, Calgary by the present Private Collection, Vancouver Christopher Pratt notes, "We were in 'Dry Fly', sheltered behind a sea wall on the Gaspé Peninsula, waiting for a gale to pass through before heading east across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Newfoundland. On the horizon to the north, ships plied the Gaspé Passage to and from ports on the river and Great Lakes, under a leaden sky. I noticed the contrast between the massive, immobile bollard, its shape echoing an anvil or an altar, and the distant vessels roaming the seas."