Untitled
66.04 cms x 92.08 cms (26 ins x 26 ins)
Lower right
Lot offered for sale by Jones, Saint John at the auction event "Canadian & International Art" held on Sun, Dec 3, 2023.
Lot 160
Lot 160
Estimate: CAD $800 - $1,200
Realised: CAD $750
Realised: CAD $750
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, New Brunswick
Notes:
Title: Ship in Harbour
Year: 1970
Woldemars (Wally) Brants (Latvian-Canadian, 1909-1998) was an accomplished Newfoundland-based visual artist whose work in held in the permanent collections of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Memorial University, and the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Brants was born in Latvia in 1909 and studied art in Riga. He worked for a state-run newsreel unit in the 1930s, and lived and worked under first Soviet-occupied then Nazi-occupied Latvia during World War II. Brants spent two years in a British camp for displaced persons in Blomberg, Germany, from 1945-47. Brants immigrated to St. John's, Newfoundland (first by way of Melbourne, Australia), in 1955. He worked as a set designer for CBC Television. Brants also pursued a professional art practice based on observations of the Newfoundland landscape. He exhibited successfully and consistently throughout the late 20th century; Memorial University Art Gallery (now The Rooms) held a 25-year retrospective of his work in 1981.
Private Collection, New Brunswick
Notes:
Title: Ship in Harbour
Year: 1970
Woldemars (Wally) Brants (Latvian-Canadian, 1909-1998) was an accomplished Newfoundland-based visual artist whose work in held in the permanent collections of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Memorial University, and the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Brants was born in Latvia in 1909 and studied art in Riga. He worked for a state-run newsreel unit in the 1930s, and lived and worked under first Soviet-occupied then Nazi-occupied Latvia during World War II. Brants spent two years in a British camp for displaced persons in Blomberg, Germany, from 1945-47. Brants immigrated to St. John's, Newfoundland (first by way of Melbourne, Australia), in 1955. He worked as a set designer for CBC Television. Brants also pursued a professional art practice based on observations of the Newfoundland landscape. He exhibited successfully and consistently throughout the late 20th century; Memorial University Art Gallery (now The Rooms) held a 25-year retrospective of his work in 1981.
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 Jones auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Jones auction house for permission to use.