Lot 32: MARIAN MILDRED DALE SCOTT(CANADIAN, 1906-1993), TRANSLATION, ICONIC NO.2, OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED AND DATED ‘56 LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO, 44.3" x 36" — 112.4 x 91.4 cm.

MARIAN MILDRED DALE SCOTT(CANADIAN, 1906-1993)TRANSLATION, ICONIC NO.2OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED AND DATED ‘56 LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO44.3" x 36" — 112.4 x 91.4 cm.Provenance:Dominion Gallery, MontrealThe Jean and Joseph Connolly Collection, MontrealLiterature:Esther Trepanier, Marian Dale Scott: Pioneer of Modern Art, Musee du Quebec, 2000, page 205 and page 207 for a closely related work entitled Translation (Iconic) No.1, (Collection of the Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal) reproduced.Note:Trepanier describes the Translation series as heralding a major formal renewal for Scott. In this series, the artist “retains iconographic and formal elements from earlier works but incorporates them into a whirlwind of pigment and abstract signs that accentuate the expressionist aspect of Scott’s approach”.Estimate: $1,800—2,200

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