Speeding Locomotive
77.2 cms x 150.19 cms (30.39 ins x 59 ins)
Inscribed "TRANSPORTATION" on the reverse
Lot offered for sale by Sothebys, Toronto at the auction event "Important Canadian Art" held on Thu, May 26, 2011.
Lot 106
Lot 106
Estimate: CAD $5,000 - $7,000
Did not sell
Did not sell
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
Vince De Vita emigrated from New York to Toronto in 1925 where he remained for much of his career. He worked as a theatre art director, a commercial artist (de Vita's studio), and an arts lecturer. He became a member of the Arts and Letters Club and was elected a life member.
This lot and the other that follows belong to a group of paintings discovered in the attic of a Rosedale residence in the 1990's. The scenes depict subjects relating to leisure and industry including canoeing, train travel, farming, manufacturing, golfing, and camping.
"Speeding Locomotive" was likely commissioned for a trade show or exhibition. From a formal perspective, De Vita employs graphic line and saturated expanses of flat colour to construct the landscape and give his subjects form - a practice consistent with his commercial art training and a precursor to Modernist painting approaches to come.
See also lot 107.
Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
Vince De Vita emigrated from New York to Toronto in 1925 where he remained for much of his career. He worked as a theatre art director, a commercial artist (de Vita's studio), and an arts lecturer. He became a member of the Arts and Letters Club and was elected a life member.
This lot and the other that follows belong to a group of paintings discovered in the attic of a Rosedale residence in the 1990's. The scenes depict subjects relating to leisure and industry including canoeing, train travel, farming, manufacturing, golfing, and camping.
"Speeding Locomotive" was likely commissioned for a trade show or exhibition. From a formal perspective, De Vita employs graphic line and saturated expanses of flat colour to construct the landscape and give his subjects form - a practice consistent with his commercial art training and a precursor to Modernist painting approaches to come.
See also lot 107.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Sothebys auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Sothebys auction house for permission to use.