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Lot 30: Donald Lawrence, The Sled, Night View - Vermillion Lake

Est: $600 CAD - $700 CADPassed
4th Meridian Fine ArtPenticton, BC, CAMarch 28, 2020

Item Overview

Description

The Sled, constructed during a residency at the Banff Centre, is derived from the image on the face of a small survival, “Storm Kit” in which a figure is depicted in the manner of a nineteenth-century engraving – crouched beside a fire, and inside a makeshift shelter. From this scenario of survival The Sled becomes a situation of relative luxury. The fire depicted on the Storm Kit is replaced here by a “Coleman” lantern, “Coleman” heater, “Whisperlite” stove and an “Outback” oven, all carefully fitted within The Sled’s cave-like interior. Born in Calgary, Alberta (1963) Donald Lawrence has a BFA from the University of Victoria (1986) and an MFA from York University (1988). He lives in Kamloops where he teaches in the Visual Arts program at Thompson Rivers University. Through such bodies of artwork as The Beach (1985), Romantic Commodities (1993), The Sled (1995), The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project (ongoing, since 1997), and Torhamvan/Ferryland (2005), Lawrence uses combinations of photography, sculpture, drawing, and installation to relate stories of travel, exploration and mechanical invention to interests in the meeting place of urban and wilderness culture, increasingly around his particular interest in sea kayaking. In addition to paddling on the BC coast he has travelled with folding kayaks to Alaska, Maine, Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and Tasmania.  There, Lawrence converted one of his kayaks into a floating camera obscura. Together with his Underwater Pinhole Photography Project (since 1997) and the more recent Quidi Vidi Camera Obscura (2014) such works relate Lawrence’s interests in sea kayaking and the ocean environment to a long-standing fascination with early and pre-photographic optical apparatuses. In addition to his studio and teaching practices Lawrence engages in a range of publication and conference activities and has been the recipient of research grants from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is currently the Principal Investigator of The Camera Obscura Project, a SSHRC-funded program of research that involves artists and scholars from Canada, Germany and the Netherlands.

Dimensions

7.5" x 11"

Artist or Maker

Medium

photograph on Ilford paper

Date

1995

Condition Report

Excellent condition. Please email for a detailed condition report.

Provenance

From the estate of Jann Bailey, former director of the Kamloops Art Gallery.

Notes

signed on the back of the print

Payment & Shipping

Payment

Accepted forms of payment: MasterCard, Money Order / Cashiers Check, Paypal, Visa, Wire Transfer

Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.

Auction Details

March Fine Art and Collectibles Auction

by
4th Meridian Fine Art
March 28, 2020, 02:00 PM PST

104-1475 Fairview Rd, Penticton, BC, V2A 7W5, CA

Terms

Buyer's Premium

20.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$99$5
$100$499$10
$500+$25

Extended Bidding

5 minutes/bid

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9. All currency figures are in Canadian dollars.

Payment and Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.

Payment and Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.