THE MINESWEEPING TRAWLER BRAS D’OR, ESCORTING ITALIAN MERCHANTMAN TO SYDNEY N.C., 1940

oil on canvas

24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)

Price Realized:

1170.00 CAD.

INCLUDES BUYER’S PREMIUM

Notes:

signed & dated lower right; titled on the stretcher verso

Provenance: Estate of James Brown (Calgary AB and Fairmont Hot Springs BC). This work was commissioned directly from the artist.

Note: The HMCS Bras d’Or was an auxiliary minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy between 1939 and 1940, when it sank in a storm.