Print details:
Image size: 26" x 35" and 17 1/2" x 22". Edition size: 200 signed and numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs.
Price (framed): signed and numbered prints $3000 (sold out). Proofs $4500.00 (sold out)

The large canvases are numbered 1/200 to 100/200 (one hundred prints) and smaller canvases sized 17 1/2" x 22" are numbered 101/200 to 200/200

Framed, numbered (but not signed) large canvas prints will be available at $2500.

The smaller prints are $1400 framed and numbered, not signed (the signed prints have all sold)

NOTE: Only a few of the prints in this edition were signed. Full details for this edition, as well as for the other limited editions, will be posted before the end of this month, February 2007.

Steamer in Grenville Channel is the second Hughes painting to be reproduced as a limited edition giclée print on canvas.

This painting is described in Ian Thom's book .... "Steamer in Grenville Channel is a visionary painting that employs light in a way that is almost baroque. The boat itself is brilliantly lit against a brooding and dark hillside. This light has a revelatory quality to it but the mystery, as Jacques Barbeau (a collector of Hughes's work) has pointed out, is uncanny and defies strict definition.

This painting occupied Hughes for months, time that Max Stern complained about. The device of the logs in the foreground to establish our relationship to the scene was apparently initially too loud, detracting from the boat itself, but now is a perfect foil to the colour of the smokestack. The canvas is closely worked and tonally unified.

Essentially, it is a black, grey and white painting with a few small and vital touches of colour. It is also a study in contrasts: the relatively uneven forms of nature versus the harmonious shapes of the boat itself, and the realism of the depiction of the boat versus the clouds that seem miraculously lit from within. The very brightness of the ship contrasts with the gloomy surroundings.

This painting has a power that is quite beyond the conventions of the standard marine piece."

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