Christopher Pratt: Six Decades

by Tom Smart

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Painter Christopher Pratt is one of Canada's most prominent painters and printmakers, a reputation that has solidified since the celebrated retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Canada in 2005. The intense realism of his work is, at first glance, deceptively simple; but behind the recognizable images lie deeper meanings. Pratt's search for reality that is magical and mysterious gives these paintings their uncanny and haunting qualities. Ever since the day in the mid-1950s when Pratt first saw the painting Early Sunday Morning by the renowned American realist, Edward Hopper, he has perfected his ability to represent...Read more
  • ISBN10 1770851283
  • ISBN13 9781770851283
  • Publish Date 14 November 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Firefly Books Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 176
  • Language English