Love Pat
61 cms x 90.8 cms (24 ins x 35.75 ins)
Signed and on verso signed
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Spring 2011 Live auction" held on Tue, May 17, 2011.
Lot 035
Lot 035
Estimate: CAD $30,000 - $40,000
Realised: CAD $29,250
Realised: CAD $29,250
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Charles Pachter, 1992, page 1
Notes:
Charles Pachter's aesthetic persona is eloquently summed up by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, the author of the monograph devoted to the first 30 years of his career: "With continuing grand gestures infrequently seen in the often skeptical Canadian art world, he has staked out cultural territory of his own and celebrated it unabashedly. Much of his work is an apparent contradiction, for he is a serious-minded humourist...he possesses the gift to be poignant and roguish at once." Published in 1992, that statement still provides an apt introduction to Pachter's images, so many of which - like his 1972 painting, Noblesse Oblige: Queen on Moose - have endured as iconic symbols of the culture and personality of Canada. In this more recent take on two of Canada's symbols of majesty, Pachter's image invites us to imagine a warm greeting between a citizen-beast and a smiling Queen, both sporting their finest headgear, set against a reminder of this country's cold northern landscape.
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Charles Pachter, 1992, page 1
Notes:
Charles Pachter's aesthetic persona is eloquently summed up by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, the author of the monograph devoted to the first 30 years of his career: "With continuing grand gestures infrequently seen in the often skeptical Canadian art world, he has staked out cultural territory of his own and celebrated it unabashedly. Much of his work is an apparent contradiction, for he is a serious-minded humourist...he possesses the gift to be poignant and roguish at once." Published in 1992, that statement still provides an apt introduction to Pachter's images, so many of which - like his 1972 painting, Noblesse Oblige: Queen on Moose - have endured as iconic symbols of the culture and personality of Canada. In this more recent take on two of Canada's symbols of majesty, Pachter's image invites us to imagine a warm greeting between a citizen-beast and a smiling Queen, both sporting their finest headgear, set against a reminder of this country's cold northern landscape.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.