Alexander Colville
1920 - 2013, Canadian
Target Shooting
sienna and gray ink on paper, 1989
11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in, 28.6 x 21.3 cm
ESTIMATE: $4,000 - $4,500
SOLD FOR : $3,850 CAD (premium included)
SALE DATE : Thursday, May 27, 1999
Sale of Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Thursday, May 27, 1999, lot #100
signed and dated
Literature:
Philip Fry, Alex Colville, Paintings, Prints and Processes, 1983 - 1944, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, reproduced, page 124, 10.01
Exhibited:
Alex Colville 1994-5 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Alex Colville remarks about this image, page 58: "In this imagined scene at an actual gun club, a young man is firing a target pistol. His father is 'calling the shots' - a kind of mentor. They are actual portraits of next-door neighbors."
Reproduced