Mary Pratt Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Mary Pratt Art Value Price Guide

May. 26, 2021
Mary Pratt for Ephraim American Art Pottery Vase
Est: $100 - $1,000
American art and crafts style vase by Ephraim Pottery signed by artist Mary Pratt. Features a white flower wrapped around a brown and green body. SHIPPING Hill Auction Gallery will offer in-house continental USA shipping for $35 plus insurance. Gallery will refer a local shipper for international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request.
Hill Auction Gallery
May. 22, 2021
Mary Pratt for Ephraim Pottery Vase.
Est: $100 - $150
Measures 9 7/8" Tall. With Grape Designs.
Direct Auction Galleries, Inc.
Mar. 25, 2020
Mary Pratt Still Life Watercolor
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Mary Pratt (1935-2018). Watercolor on paper still life depicting a vase of flowers. Signed and dated 1968 along the lower right. Sight; height: 14 1/2 in x width: 10 1/2 in. Framed; height: 22 3/4 in x width: 18 in. SKU: 03942 Follow us on Instagram: @revereauctions
Revere Auctions
Sep. 13, 2018
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., 12 LITTLE LOBSTERS, watercolour, 11 ins x 9 ins; 27.9 cms x 22.9 cms
Est: $3,500 - $5,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A.12 LITTLE LOBSTERSwatercoloursigned and dated ‘84 11 ins x 9 ins; 27.9 cms x 22.9 cms Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto/CalgaryPrivate Collection, MontrealEstimate: $3,500–5,000
Waddington's
Sep. 13, 2018
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., SLIGHT THAW-FEBRUARY 1969, oil on canvas, 16 ins x 20 ins; 40.6 cms x 76.2 cms
Est: $2,500 - $3,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A.SLIGHT THAW-FEBRUARY 1969oil on canvassigned and dated ‘69; also signed, titled and dated “February 1969” on the reverse 16 ins x 20 ins; 40.6 cms x 76.2 cms Provenance:Joyners Canadian Fine Art Auction, 1996Private Collection, MontrealEstimate: $2,500–3,000
Waddington's
Jun. 21, 2018
MARY F.W. PRATT, R.C.A., JELLY, 13.75 x 15 in — 34.9 x 38.1 cm
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
MARY F.W. PRATT, R.C.A.JELLYcolour lithographsigned, dated ‘78 and numbered 14/43 in pencil 13.75 x 15 in — 34.9 x 38.1 cm Provenance:Private Collection, OntarioEstimate: $1,000–1,500
Waddington's
May. 28, 2018
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., SPLIT POMEGRANATE, mixed media, 22.5 ins x 30 ins; 57.2 cms x 76.2 cms
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A.SPLIT POMEGRANATEmixed mediasigned and dated ‘91 22.5 ins x 30 ins; 57.2 cms x 76.2 cms Provenance:Equinox Gallery, VancouverPrivate Collection, MontrealEstimate: $8,000–10,000
Waddington's
May. 28, 2018
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., GRAPES IN A COLANDER, mixed media on paper, image 8 ins x 8.5 ins; 20.3 cms x 21.5 cms
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A.GRAPES IN A COLANDERmixed media on papersigned, titled and dated 2007 image 8 ins x 8.5 ins; 20.3 cms x 21.5 cms Provenance:Equinox Gallery, VancouverPrivate Collection, MontrealEstimate: $3,000–4,000
Waddington's
May. 28, 2018
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., SWIMMING UP TO THE SUN, oil on canvas, 24 ins x 36 ins; 61 cms x 91.4 cms
Est: $35,000 - $50,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A.SWIMMING UP TO THE SUNoil on canvassigned and dated ‘98 24 ins x 36 ins; 61 cms x 91.4 cms Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, TorontoMary Pratt (b.1935) attended school in a unique place. Mount Allison University in the 1950s and early 1960s was perhaps the only major art school anywhere that was dedicated solely to representational art. The principal instructors, Lawren P. Harris, Alex Colville and Ted Pulford were exemplary practitioners of realism. Commercial galleries of the region and The Beaverbrook collection were also skewed in favour of conventional academic rendering. So, during a period rife with aesthetic invention, experimentation and abstract explorations, New Brunswick was a complete anomaly, a place where it seemed perfectly natural that the foundation of art practice was founded upon recreating images borne from observation of existing forms.At Mount A., she met and married Christopher Pratt. Mary recounts that in her early stages she was most drawn to the ‘impressionistic’ touch of the cross-hatched textural application of Colville’s paintings. Christopher had established his own artistic voice, Mary was still trying to find her way. Mary was building her works by hand-drawn studies from nature.Her breakthrough occurred in 1969 when Christopher snapped for Mary a colour slide of a scene to act as an aide-mémoire for the fleeting light conditions of a desired painting subject. She projected the image and traced its outlines, thus unwittingly entering into a dialogue with the cadre of international artists referred to as photo-realists and chronicled by the 1970 Whitney Museum exhibition: Twenty-Two Realists. By the early 1970s photo-realism was a ubiquitous part of every university art department worldwide. But understanding how she might paint only solved half the riddle. There was still the question of what to paint.For Mary Pratt, the answer to that seemed to require the addition of visual complexity: multiple reflections, refractions, shadows, translucency and ‘difficult substances’ such as crinkled foil or saran wrap. Pratt managed to equate her domesticity to ‘womanhood’. Her images of women and domestic subjects were viewed as her attempt to establish selfhood amidst struggles (her marriage would end) and societal injustice towards women.What then is to be said about the intention or reading of this lot: Swimming Up to the Sun? Is the subject submerging or as the title implies emerging? The facial expression appears as determined, resolute. We are invited to form our own impressions on the subject’s internal dialogues.Mary Pratt was named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1997 and her works have been exhibited and collected by the nation’s most prestigious private and public collections.Estimate: $35,000–50,000
Waddington's
May. 30, 2013
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut Pomegranates in a Dark Room
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut Pomegranates in a Dark Room 14 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches 36.8 x 52.1 centimeters signed, titled, editioned A.P./15 and dated 1997 and on verso titled, editioned on a gallery label and dated Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
May. 15, 2013
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Study for Blue Bath Water V 30 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches 76.8 x 57.1 centimeters signed and dated 1984 and on verso titled on the gallery label Literature:Maurice Yacowar, "The Paintings of Mary (vs. Christopher) Pratt", Dalhousie Review, Volume 68, Issue 4, Winter 1988 - 1989, page 396 Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto An Important Montreal Collection Mary Pratt's first realist painting of a female nude was produced in 1978, after her husband, painter Christopher Pratt, had shown her a collection of photographs he had taken of the young woman who was his model and muse, Donna. Mary continued to work with these images and subsequent photographs in poses that she specifically requested for over a decade, in works that are both intimate and sensual. Mary stated, "Women can be erotic, in a sense, about other women. I mean, women are just plain beautiful. That woman in the Blue Bathwater picture (1983) is a kind of pearly, lush, warm and sensuous thing...I think I dare to be sensuous because this is what I feel about women. I know what it's like to be a woman." In Study for Blue Bath Water V, the young woman, in an unusual pose, is only partially submerged, her attention absorbed by the swirling water rising to engulf her. Sensual, soft and painterly like a Pierre Bonnard bath scene, delicate colour tints suffuse the model's skin, evincing Pratt's fascination with light effects.
Heffel
Mar. 28, 2013
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Fiddleheads and Frozen Salmon
Est: $3,500 - $4,500
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Fiddleheads and Frozen Salmon 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches 24.1 x 34.3 centimeters signed and dated 1984 and on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
Feb. 28, 2013
MARY FRANCES PRATT (CANADIAN, 1935-) AN OFFERING;
Est: $1,500 - $1,800
MARY FRANCES PRATT (CANADIAN, 1935-) AN OFFERING; COLOUR SILKSCREEN; SIGNED, TITLED, DATED '04 AND NUMBERED 33/49 IN PENCIL Image 17.8" x 26.5" - 44.4 x 66.3 cm.
Waddington's
Jan. 31, 2013
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper on card Still Life
Est: $600 - $800
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper on card Still Life 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches 41.9 x 27.3 centimeters signed Provenance: Private Collection, Toronto
Heffel
Sep. 13, 2012
MARY PRATT, R.C.A. AN OFFERING, colour silkscreen;
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A. AN OFFERING, colour silkscreen; signed, titled, dated '04 and numbered 33/49 17.75 ins x 26.5 ins; 44.4 cms x 66.3 cms
Waddington's
Jan. 26, 2012
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian graphite on
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian graphite on paper Amaryllis Series No. 1 11 x 14 1/4 inches 27.9 x 36.2 centimeters signed and dated 1972 and on verso titled on a label Provenance:Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto
Heffel
Nov. 29, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt (Canadian, born 1935) Bonfire drawing sight
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Bonfire drawing signed and dated 'MARY PRATT '97' (lower right) mixed media on paper 72 x 55.3cm (28 3/8 x 21 3/4in).sight
Bonhams
Nov. 29, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt (Canadian, born 1935) Bonfire drawing sight
Est: £15,000 - £20,000
Bonfire drawing signed and dated 'MARY PRATT '97' (lower right) mixed media on paper 72 x 55.3cm (28 3/8 x 21 3/4in).sight
Bonhams
Jul. 28, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour
Est: $800 - $1,200
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour lithograph Tied Boat 13 1/2 diameter inches 34.3 diameter centimeters signed, titled, editioned 47/60 and dated 1980 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
Jun. 02, 2011
MARY PRATT, R.C.A. CUT WATERMELON, serigraph,
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A. CUT WATERMELON, serigraph, printed in colours; signed, titled, dated '97 and numbered 61/75 in the margin, unframed 14 ins x 20 ins; 35 cms x 50 cms
Waddington's
May. 27, 2011
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., CLASSICAL STILL LIFE WITH PHEASANT, mixed media on paper, 30 ins x 22 ins; 75 cms x 55 cms
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., CLASSICAL STILL LIFE WITH PHEASANT, mixed media on paper; signed and dated '95. 30 ins x 22 ins; 75 cms x 55 cms. Provenance: The Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton. Private Collection, Edmonton.
Waddington's
May. 26, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian silkscreen on paper Through the Window Bright!
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian silkscreen on paper Through the Window Bright! 14 x 20 inches 35.6 x 50.8 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 30/90 and dated 1997 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
May. 26, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Two Roses, Two Takes II
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Two Roses, Two Takes II 23 x 11 1/2 inches 58.4 x 29.2 centimeters signed and dated 2002 Provenance:Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
May. 26, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Two Roses, Two Takes I
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Two Roses, Two Takes I 23 x 19 inches 58.4 x 48.3 centimeters signed and dated 2002 Provenance:Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
May. 17, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian mixed media on
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian mixed media on paper Cherries 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 centimeters signed and dated 1996 and on verso titled on the gallery label Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver One of Canada's most important realist artists, Mary Pratt's still life tableaus are considered to be sensuous masterpieces of light that scintillates from the reflective surfaces of the vessels, fruit and objects depicted. These tableaus - as in Cherries, with its perfect, succulent fruit - are elevated from everyday life into a radiant realm, symbolic of the fecundity of life.
Heffel
Mar. 31, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian silkscreen on
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian silkscreen on paper Through the Window Bright! 14 x 20 inches 35.6 x 50.8 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 64/90 and dated 1997 Provenance:Private Collection, Nova Scotia Please note: this work is unframed.
Heffel
Mar. 31, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian pastel and
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian pastel and watercolour on paper Still Life with Roses 22 x 29 3/4 inches 55.9 x 75.6 centimeters signed and dated 1992 Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto For Mary Pratt, her domestic environment is redolent with meaning. Whether a cod fillet on tinfoil in her kitchen, or a room setting such as this lovely scene, Pratt finds visual beauty in the simple things around her. Although Pratt claims she depicts the surfaces of objects because she simply likes the look of them, avoiding moral statements or subjects with social implications, still there is a great deal more going on. Like realists such as Jack Chambers, who painted his living room, or Alex Colville painting himself and his wife in front of an open fridge, Pratt, in painting these ordinary moments, expresses something extraordinary. The profoundly aware eyes of the realist artists turning their attention to what is around them is transformative. In Still Life with Roses, although the beauty of the roses at first seems to dominate, the real point of the work is Pratt's meditation on light - reflecting off the glass table and other surfaces, and infusing the room. Rather than the smooth, perfect surfaces of her oils, Pratt's brush-strokes are evident in this luminous and painterly watercolour.
Heffel
Mar. 31, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut Pears on a Green Glass Plate 13 x 21 inches 33 x 53.3 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 73/75 and dated 1998 Provenance:Private Collection, Nova Scotia Please note: this work is unframed.
Heffel
Mar. 31, 2011
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian lithograph on
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian lithograph on paper Amaryllis 23 x 30 inches 58.4 x 76.2 centimeters signed and dated 1975 Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto
Heffel
Nov. 29, 2010
Mary Frances Pratt (Canadian, born 1935) Bonfire drawing sight
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Bonfire drawing signed and dated 'MARY PRATT '97' (lower right) mixed-media on paper 72 x 55.3cm (28 3/8 x 21 3/4in).sight
Bonhams
Nov. 27, 2010
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian silkscreen on
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian silkscreen on paper BC Delicious 16 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches 41.9 x 60.3 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 67/75 and dated 1994 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
Nov. 23, 2010
MARY FRANCES PRATT B.1935
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
MARY FRANCES PRATT B.1935 VEGETABLE MARROW signed and dated lower right Mary Pratt '66; also inscribed on the reverse #26 - marrows $50.00 oil on canvas board 40.6 by 50.8 cm. 16 by 20 in.
Sotheby's
Nov. 23, 2010
MARY FRANCES PRATT B.1935
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
MARY FRANCES PRATT B.1935 MAPLE TREE signed and dated lower right Mary Pratt '71 watercolour on paper 36.8 by 54.6 cm. 14 ½ by 21 ½ in.
Sotheby's
Sep. 30, 2010
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on
Est: $4,000 - $5,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Lilac Hedge and Fence II: A View from my Window at the Convalescent Hospital 12 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches 31.1 x 41.3 centimeters signed and dated 1991 Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto
Heffel
Jul. 29, 2010
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on board and steel Crystal Vase with Daisies
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on board and steel Crystal Vase with Daisies 15 x 12 inches 38.1 x 30.5 centimeters signed and dated 1975 and on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
Jun. 24, 2010
MARY PRATT (1935-); ANNE MEREDITH BARRY
Est: $300 - $400
MARY PRATT (1935-); ANNE MEREDITH BARRY (1932-2003); CANADIAN JACK WAS EVERY INCH A SAILOR; A DECK WITH A VIEW (8 OF HEARTS)
Waddington's
Jun. 01, 2010
MARY PRATT, R.C.A., WASHED PLUMS, acrylic on board, 23 1/2 ins x 31 1/2 ins; 58.8 cms x 78.8 cms
Est: $20,000 - $25,000
MARY PRATT, R.C.A.WASHED PLUMS, acrylic on board; signed and dated '87 23 1/2 ins x 31 1/2 ins; 58.8 cms x 78.8 cms Provenance: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto.Literature: Sandra Gwyn and Gerta Moray, Mary Pratt, Toronto, 1989.Note: Pratt once remarked that the things that turn her on to painting are the things she really liked: "Seeing the groceries come in, for instance. Or working...I get this gut reaction. I think, 'that's gorgeous, that's absolutely wonderful, and I must save it.'"
Waddington's
May. 29, 2010
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on board
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on board and steel Crystal Vase with Daisies 15 x 12 inches 38.1 x 30.5 centimeters signed and dated 1975 and on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
May. 26, 2010
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper board Salmon on Saran 10 1/2 x 36 inches 26.7 x 91.4 centimeters signed and dated 1987 Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto Mary Pratt is a complex and highly skilled painter. One of Canada's most respected realists, her works, of which Salmon on Saran is an excellent example, intrigue us both in their fine detail and in their often intricate arrangement of subjects with layered meanings. Broken egg shells, half eaten fruit, dirty dishes and cutlery signify more than the remains of a meal, just as Pratt's fish can be read as a contemporary memento mori - a reminder of death. Pratt captures light on her subjects in a photographic way. Fish are a repeated theme, and they appear on tin foil, plastic wrap and plates. Her talent as a watercolourist is evident in the texture of the plastic wrap as well as the scales on the fish - both are remarkable feats of watercolour. Pratt's work is interesting to compare to Dutch masters of genre paintings where interiors of kitchens, jugs of milk, doors from the hallway to the kitchen and other such scenes of domestic life play a central role. Hers is a contemporary vision of similar scenes, updated to correspond with our lives and times.
Heffel
Nov. 28, 2009
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut Reflections of Oranges 14 x 19 1/2 inches 35.6 x 49.5 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 70/75 and dated 1996 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
Nov. 28, 2009
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut Pomegranates in a Dark Room 14 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches 36.8 x 52.1 centimeters signed, titled and editioned 37/75 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
Nov. 28, 2009
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian colour woodcut Mangoes on a Brass Plate 16 1/2 x 23 inches 41.9 x 58.4 centimeters signed, titled, editioned 49/75 and dated 1995 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver
Heffel
Nov. 26, 2009
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour on paper Ginger Ale and Tomato Sandwich #1 26 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches 66.7 x 43.8 centimeters signed and dated 1999 and on verso titled Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver Mary Pratt is one of Canada's most celebrated realist painters, renowned for her unique use of light and her themes of domesticity. Early in her career Pratt began experimenting with light, intrigued with how it could transform an ordinary moment into a theatrical scene. However, she realized that the light she wanted to capture changed more rapidly than she could paint it. To solve this predicament, her artist-husband Christopher Pratt suggested that she use photographs to help capture the exact quality of light that she wanted to recreate. The first painting Pratt completed with the aid of the camera was the 1969 still life Supper Table. The still life genre is one that Pratt has continuously returned to, reinterpreting the subject matter to reflect her personal life. This watercolour can be read as an autobiographical statement, depicting her situation as she moved toward living alone, after she and Christopher Pratt decided to separate. There is a sense of complete harmonic balance between the objects placed on the table, and the diagonal of light that falls on the ginger ale and sandwich transforms this everyday meal into an ethereal, fanciful scene. "
Heffel
Nov. 26, 2009
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas A
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas A Light Serving on Copper 16 x 24 7/8 inches 40.6 x 63.2 centimeters signed and dated 2006 Provenance:Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver One of Canada's most eminent artists, Mary Pratt is known for her emotive realism. Pratt uses the camera as a tool to study light as it refracts, reflects and shines on her subjects. She paints what she knows in her immediate environment, objects of everyday life, arranged with a dignified order and aesthetic beauty. She finds these objects intimate and sensual, and intends to induce in the viewer a state of contemplation and awareness of perception of her subjects. Pratt often chooses metal and glass containers for their reflective qualities, as with the copper plate in this work, which reflects the fruit in its surface. The fruit is perfect, with no hint of decay, a symbol of nature's abundance and continuity of life. Paint surfaces are remarkably smooth and transparent, with Pratt using small sable brushes and tiny cross-hatched strokes of paint mixed with turpentine and stand oil to achieve this effect. A Light Serving on Copper is a classic Pratt still life, exquisitely painted and radiant with light. "
Heffel
Jun. 25, 2009
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas Orange on Tinfoil 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 centimeters signed and dated 1993 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver Mary Pratt studied at Mount Allison School of Art with Alex Colville, and emerged in the 1960s in the Maritimes as a New Realist painter. Use of photography as a point of departure, a coolness of viewpoint and the depiction of subjects that were considered to be worthwhile of artistic regard simply because they existed, were characteristics of New Realism. Pratt's significance has been recognized in retrospective exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton and the London Regional Art Gallery. Her work is in numerous public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Pratt uses photography as a tool for studying the ephemeral qualities of light in her subjects, which are chosen from her immediate environment. Her method of painting is exacting - using small sable brushes and a fluid medium of turpentine and stand oil, she paints with small cross-hatched strokes which blend together into a smooth, flawless surface. Pratt depicts everyday objects in her still life tableaus with a vision devoid of irony and sentimentality, and although she uses the cool gaze of the camera, she infuses the work with an unmistakable sensuality. This is felt in Orange on Tinfoil in the juiciness of the pulp in the just-peeled fruit, the vibrant colour and the extraordinary beauty of the play of light on surfaces. Light scintillates in the sheen of the pulp and breaks into coloured shards in the reflective surface of the tinfoil. The orange, carefully displayed to reveal its beauty, enticing the viewer with its radiance, becomes something more than the everyday. Orange on Tinfoil is a superb painting that contains the essence of Pratt's awareness of unique perceptual moments and her intense and sensual response to life.
Heffel
Nov. 19, 2008
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour,
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian watercolour, pastel and oil on paper Summer Fire " 46 1/4 x 34 3/4 inches 117.5 x 88.3 centimeters signed and dated 1989 and on verso titled on the Mira Godard Gallery label Literature:Tom Smart, The Art of Mary Pratt, The Substance of Light, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1995, page 123 Provenance:Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto In the late 1980s, Mary Pratt began a series based on images of fire, contained in barrels or in open bonfires. Through these works, as Smart writes, "Pratt explored the theme of the end of things, destroyed, offered up or incinerated." Although this concept had an apocalytic side, Pratt also found fire to be liberating and alive. In this series of large multi-media works on paper, she used chalk, pastel and watercolour as well as oil to capture the ephemeral, dynamic quality of fire, with its elemental power to transform. Known for her ability with the effects of light on surfaces, here she captures light at the point of its creation in the fire's consumption of matter.
Heffel
Nov. 19, 2008
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas Points of Lemon 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 centimeters signed and dated 1998 and on verso titled and dated Literature:Tom Smart, The Art of Mary Pratt, The Substance of Light, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1995, page 129 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver Mary Pratt is one of Canada's most celebrated Realist painters. During the 1990s she did a series of exquisite still lifes of fruit in bowls or on plates placed on reflective surfaces. These works are sensual studies of light both falling on the fruit and reflecting up from the surfaces below, and, as Smart writes, "Light enfolding substance becomes a radiant presence in her still lifes of this time." Pratt has been described as an emotive realist - in contrast to Alex Colville's magic realism or Christopher Pratt's cool, analytical realism. Although this composition is refined and modern, her use of food and other objects of domestic life carries the warmth of that with which we surround ourselves for physical sustenance. That, together with the sensuality of the light and the beautiful surfaces of the fruit, gives her work a subtle emotional charge. Each object is carefully and symmetrically placed, with great awareness of shadow as well as reflection. Points of Lemon is an aesthetic delight, a painterly feast of light and colour.
Heffel
May. 31, 2008
Mary Frances Pratt 1935 - Canadian oil on canvas Summer Flowers on a Table
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters signed and dated 1969 and on verso signed, titled and dated Provenance:Winchester Galleries, Victoria Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel

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