Dusk Kensington St. Toronto, March 6th, '09, Study For Painted Cupcakes
5.5 cms (2.17 ins)
Signed and dated; titled and dated in pencil to margin
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "Contemporary Art" held on Thu, Oct 1, 2020.
Lot 16
Lot 16
Estimate: CAD $1,200 - $1,500
Realised: CAD $1,080
Realised: CAD $1,080
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Ingram Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
Notes:
Rachel Berman is a painter and children's book illustrator who has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, and Ireland. Her work is primarily focused on portraiture delivered intimately: figures in anonymous rooms, workers on the job, bored groups in waiting rooms or at the kitchen table - often posed to confront the viewer as if in conversation. The mysterious figures are perhaps a reflection of her own uneasy identity (she was raised by foster parents as Susan King, before discovering her birth parents at the age of 52 and cheerfully re-claiming her lost identity). In her street scenes, the viewer is more withdrawn, peopled by figures preoccupied with their own lives. They are vibrant, bright vignettes, bustling along with a frail energy. Berman's practice is a poignant exploration of the breadth of lived experience.
Ingram Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
Notes:
Rachel Berman is a painter and children's book illustrator who has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, and Ireland. Her work is primarily focused on portraiture delivered intimately: figures in anonymous rooms, workers on the job, bored groups in waiting rooms or at the kitchen table - often posed to confront the viewer as if in conversation. The mysterious figures are perhaps a reflection of her own uneasy identity (she was raised by foster parents as Susan King, before discovering her birth parents at the age of 52 and cheerfully re-claiming her lost identity). In her street scenes, the viewer is more withdrawn, peopled by figures preoccupied with their own lives. They are vibrant, bright vignettes, bustling along with a frail energy. Berman's practice is a poignant exploration of the breadth of lived experience.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.