DORIS MCCARTHY

Titled to label verso "St. Tropez", signed lower right, oil on board, 50.8 x 61cm (20 x 24in); Provenance: Waddingtons, Toronto, November 28, 1985; present private London collection, together with the following lot; Exhibited: Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour Annual Exhibition, Toronto Art Gallery, January/February, 1953; Doris Jean McCarthy, Canadian, 1910-2010; born in Calgary, Doris attended the Ontario College of Art from 1926-1930, and became a teacher at the Central Technical School in Toronto from 1933 until she retired in 1972; this is a wonderful example by the artist depicting several boats near the port of Saint-Tropez, France, with rolling green and blue hills in the distance