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LOT 029

PC CC
1920 - 2013
Canadian

June Noon
acrylic polymer emulsion on board
signed and dated 1963 and on verso signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Acrylic Polymer Emulsion"
30 x 30 in, 76.2 x 76.2 cm

Estimate: $1,500,000 - $2,500,000 CAD

Sold for: $2,161,250

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Banfer Gallery, New York
Donnelley Erdman, Colorado
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London
The Langen Collection, Germany, 1970
By descent to the present Private Collection, Germany

LITERATURE
33a Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia, 18 Giugno – 16 Ottobre 1966, Ente Autonomo La Biennale di Venezia, 1966, listed, titled as Meriggio di giugno, page 146
Robert Melville, Alex Colville, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd., 1970, listed page 10 and reproduced page 21
Helen J. Dow, The Art of Alex Colville, 1972, reproduced page 178
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, reproduced page 217 and listed page 248, catalogue #69
David Burnett, Alex Colville: Prints / Estampes, 1985, reproduced page 11
Tom Smart, Alex Colville: Return, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2003, reproduced page 119

EXHIBITED
33rd Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte Venezia, June 18 - October 16, 1966, catalogue #473
Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd., Alex Colville, January - February 1970, catalogue #10
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Alex Colville: A Retrospective, July 22 - September 28, 1983, traveling in 1983 - 1984 to Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and Vancouver Art Gallery, June Noon shown only in Toronto, Cologne and Berlin, catalogue #27


Inscribed on verso:

"Panel of untempered masonite. Gesso of white pigments in acrylic polymer emulsion as are pigments for actual painting. Final protective coat of same emulsion. All materials from Permanent Pigments Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio."

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Estimate: $1,500,000 - $2,500,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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