Lot 106: CHRISTOPHER PRATT, R.C.A., TWO WORKS: STUDY FOR “GIRL IN THE SPARE ROOM,” 1984 & FISHER’S MAID, 1978, the first graphite, the second lithograph, 14 ins x 10.5 ins; 35.6 cms x 26.7 cms; 11.75 ins x 14.75 ins; 29.8 cms x 37.5 cms

CHRISTOPHER PRATT, R.C.A.TWO WORKS: STUDY FOR “GIRL IN THE SPARE ROOM,” 1984 & FISHER’S MAID, 1978the first graphite, the second lithographthe first signed and dated ‘84, the second signed, titled, dated ‘78 and numbered 39/50 in pencil in the lower margin 14 ins x 10.5 ins; 35.6 cms x 26.7 cms; 11.75 ins x 14.75 ins; 29.8 cms x 37.5 cms Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, TorontoPrivate Collection, U.S.A.Literature:The prints of Christopher Pratt, 1958-1991: Catalogue Raisonné with essays by Jay Scott and Christopher Pratt, Breakwater Books and Mira Godard Gallery, St. John’s and Toronto, 1991, page 69 for Fisher’s Maid reproduced.Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Christopher Pratt: All My Own Work, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2005, page 46-47 for the painting Girl in a Spare Room, 1984, reproduced in colour.Note:The painting Girl in a Spare Room for which the drawing in this lot is a study, is in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Of Fisher’s Maid Pratt writes: “I had never done a lithograph before, but I knew the medium lent itself to night, to darkness, because of its capacity to do rich, inky blacks; and I had never done a figure in a print. Those things came together here.”Estimate: $8,000–12,000