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Lot # 001 David Hockney 1937 - British My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean colour etching and aquatint with collage signed, titled twice, editioned 47/50, dated 1961 in the margin and inscribed "July 1961" in the plate 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in 45.1 x 45.1cm Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Literature: David Hockney: Prints: 1954 - 1995, Scottish Arts Council, 1979, catalogue #13 Estimate: $15,000 ~ $20,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

Lot # 001 Edward John (E.J.) Hughes BCSFA CGP OC RCA 1913 - 2007 Canadian Patrol on Kiska in 1943 graphite on card signed and dated 1944 and on verso titled and titled on the gallery label and inscribed "Reverse lighting on figures" 19 7/8 x 23 1/4 in 50.5 x 59cm Provenance: Dominion Gallery, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal As an official war artist during World War II, E.J. Hughes was posted to Kiska, Alaska from 1943 to 1944. Characteristic of Hughes's meticulous attention to detail, here he depicts a group of soldiers with their distinctive gear, including the bowie knife task force arm patch denoting the Kiska Invasion Force - the joint US-Canadian force formed to retake Kiska from Japanese forces. Surprisingly, when the invasion force landed in August of 1943, they found the island abandoned; nevertheless, they established their base there. Canadian forces came primarily from the 13th Canadian Infantry Brigade of the 6th Canadian Infantry Division, but also included the Canadian component of the First Special Service Force, also known as the Devil's Brigade, a commando unit. The men march through a striking and stark landscape, the deep snowdrifts indicative of the challenging winter environment. The work is full of light, with detail denoted by fine shading and tonal contrasts that create a strong sense of volume. Most of Hughes's war work is in the collection of the Canadian War Museum, making this fine cartoon drawing rare to the market. In their collection is Hughes's 1945 canvas from this drawing entitled Patrol, Kiska. The 1943 preliminary ink drawing for this cartoon entitled Sketch for Patrol, Kiska was donated in 2012 to the Canadian War Museum by David and Robert Heffel.

Lot # 001 Sybil Andrews CPE 1898 - 1992 Canadian Low Tide, Limehouse etching signed and titled and on verso titled and inscribed "Print No. 2 / Miss Sybil Andrews, 33 Warwick Square, Victoria, London SW1" 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in 27.3 x 20cm Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver Estimate: $1,200 ~ $1,600 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

Lot # 001 David Lloyd Blackwood CPE CSGA CSPWC OSA RCA 1941 - Canadian Captain Jesse Winsor Home from the Ice Fields etching and aquatint signed, titled, editioned A.P. 2/10 and dated 1979 / 1980 19 3/4 x 63 1/4 in 50.2 x 160.6cm Provenance: Private Collection, Ontario Literature: Patricia Grattan and Michael Burtch, David Blackwood: Prints 1962 - 1984, Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, 1985, reproduced, unpaginated William Gough, The Art of David Blackwood, 1988, reproduced, unpaginated William Gough, David Blackwood: Master Printmaker, 2001, reproduced page 37 Katharine Lochnan, Black Ice: David Blackwood Prints of Newfoundland, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2011, reproduced, unpaginated Please note this work is a triptych, and is comprised of three images measuring: 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches; 19 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches and 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches respectively. Estimate: $5,000 ~ $7,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Inc. Toronto

Lot # 001 Jack Leonard Shadbolt BCSFA CGP CSPWC OC RCA 1909 - 1998 Canadian Bella Bella watercolour and crayon on paper signed, titled, dated August 28, 1939 and inscribed "Head-dress, Raven with Human Face, Victoria Museum" and on verso inscribed "Indian masks 1" 20 1/2 x 16 in 52.1 x 40.6cm Provenance: By descent to the present Private Collection, British Columbia Literature: Marjorie M. Halprin, Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image, UBC Museum of Anthropology, 1986, page 26 Jack Shadbolt was introduced to Emily Carr in 1930 in Victoria, and was struck by her powerful paintings of Indian villages and totems. By the mid-1930s, Shadbolt was sketching native masks in Victoria's BC Provincial Museum (now the Royal BC Museum), such as this remarkable watercolour of a compelling Raven with Human Face mask. The cracks from weathering in this marvellously detailed mask make its beauty all the more fragile and evocative. Shadbolt wrote of the importance of such images, "The Indian mode of expressing things from inside out, out of deep interior identification with the spirit of the image portrayed, gave me my inventive impetus as well as helping me to my personal mode of abstraction." He would continue to integrate native imagery into his work throughout his career because, as he wrote, "Their imprint is on my mind. Whenever I look out on our wilderness I am haunted by evocations of their memory...they give my view of nature a deeper solemnity, a nostalgia for the oneness with a wild world - and a reproach to aspects of our pragmatic environment." Estimate: $7,000 ~ $9,000 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver