PC CC
1920 - 2013
Canadian
Two Boys Playing
glazed tempera on board
signed and dated 1952 and on verso signed, titled, dated and inscribed "glazed tempera" / "A2058" / "20 x 20"
20 x 20 in, 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000 CAD
Sold for: $721,250
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PROVENANCE
T.H. Edwards, Montreal
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
LITERATURE
Helen J. Dow, The Art of Alex Colville, 1972, reproduced page 70 and listed page 220
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, reproduced page 86 and listed page 245
David Burnett, Alex Colville, Heffel Gallery Limited, 1989, the 1952 tempera on paper study entitled Two Boys Playing reproduced, unpaginated
Mark A. Cheetham, Alex Colville: The Observer Observed, 1994, pages 13 and 45
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Colville, July 22 - September 18, 1983, traveling in 1983 - 1984 to Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and the Vancouver Art Gallery, catalogue raisonné #32
Heffel Gallery Limited, Vancouver, Alex Colville, October 7 - 31, 1989, the 1952 tempera on paper study entitled Two Boys Playing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, loaned for temporary display in the Canadian Galleries, 2007 - 2008
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Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000 CAD
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