24 × 18.25 in
 in
 cm
$1,900
In this pastel depiction of the bridges of Vancouver, Bruno Bobak presents a landscape scene brightened not with yellows and golds but with the absence of colour on the paper. The reflective waterway glistens between the impressionistically rendered winter trees and cityscape fading into a moody, roiling sky above the far-off rural stretch of gentle hills. Two bridges guide the eye to and fro across the artwork, the spanning trusses feeling somehow more solid than the buildings surrounding them. The impressive weight of their beams is almost tangible above the iridescence of the harbour.
| Medium | |
| Signature | Signed |
| Frame | Unframed |
| Condition | good |
| Seller | Private |
| Location | Victoria, Canada |
| Provenance | Private Collection, Victoria, Canada |
Painter, watercolourist, printmaker, sculptor, and muralist, Bronislaw Josephus “Bruno” Bobak was born in 1923 in Poland and immigrated with his family to Canada in 1925. He studied art with Arthur Lismer and Gordon Webber at the Art Gallery of Toronto (1933-37), and with Carl Schaefer and Elizabeth Wyn Wood at the Central Technical School in Toronto (1938- 42). He served in the Canadian Army (1943-46), and was an official war artist (1944-46).
In 1945, Bobak married the artist Molly Lamb. He taught at the Vancouver School of Art (1947-57), and was the artist in residence at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (1960-61) and the director of the Art Centre there (1962-88). In 1973, he became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and, in 1983, the Sir George Williams Art Galleries, Concordia University, organized a touring retrospective of his work.
Source: National Gallery of Canada
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