DANCING FALL

oil on canvas

44.5 x 57.5 in. (113 x 146.1 cm)

Price Realized:

12870.00 CAD.

INCLUDES BUYER’S PREMIUM

Notes:

signed & titled verso; dated on the gallery label verso
Provenance: Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON

The streams and waterways of Alberta feature prominently in Godwin’s paintings. Ted grew up on the banks of the Elbow River in Calgary, walking and fly fishing the river with his father. The river holds even further significance for him, as his parent’s ashes were later scattered over the Bow River. Considering himself a Buddhist, he writes of this in the “Beginnings” chapter of “Lower Bow, A Celebration of Wilderness, Art and Fishing” (Godwin; Hard Art Moving and Storage Co. Ltd., 1991):

The foregoing is never far from my mind when I fish the river….there is always that little extra thought evoked by casting a fly over the waters. Gently holding a large brown or rainbow trout prior to release, I have been heard to enquire (depending on the sex): ‘Is that you Mum? Is that you Dad?’…..To date, I have not had a fish wink back….God knows what I will do if the day ever comes that one does make a sign.