LOT 027

PC CC
1920 - 2013
Canadian

Cattle Show
oil on board
signed and dated 1955 and on verso signed, titled, dated and inscribed “Hewitt” / “8381” and variously
26 x 40 7/8 in, 66 x 103.8 cm

Estimate: $700,000 - $900,000 CAD

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Hewitt Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Verner Reed, New York, 1955
Important Canadian Art, Sotheby’s Canada, November 2, 2011, lot 39
Important Private Collection, USA

LITERATURE
Alex Colville, Paintings, Banfer Gallery, 1963, listed page 7
Evan H. Turner and William Withrow, Fifteen Canadian Artists, Museum of Modern Art, 1964, reproduced, unpaginated
Helen Dow, The Art of Alex Colville, 1972, reproduced page 144
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, reproduced page 175

EXHIBITED
Hewitt Gallery, New York, Alex Colville, 1955
Banfer Gallery, New York, Alex Colville, Paintings, 1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fifteen Canadian Artists, July 25 – September 7, 1964, traveling in 1963 – 1965 to the Hunter Gallery of Art, Tennessee; Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire; Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire; University of Texas, Austin; Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C.; Mercer University, Georgia; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; City Art Museum, Saint Louis, catalogue #63.1482; and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, catalogue #L64.462.8


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Estimate: $700,000 - $900,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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