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LOT 023

PC CC
1920 - 2013
Canadien

Study for Laser
techniques mixtes sur carte
signé, daté et inscrit
4 1/2 x 7 7/8 po, 11.4 x 20 cm

Estimation : 15 000 $ - 20 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 38 025 $

Exposition à : Heffel Vancouver

PROVENANCE
Fischer Fine Art Limited, London
Marlborough-Godard, Toronto
An Important Private Estate, Montreal

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Marina Vaizey, Alex Colville, Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1977, the 1976 painting entitled Laser and two other studies for Laser entitled Study for Laser and Figure Study for Laser reproduced page 9
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, the 1976 painting entitled Laser, in the collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, reproduced page 234
David Burnett, Alex Colville: Prints and Paintings, 1985, the 1976 painting Laser reproduced page 12


Alex Colville is a Canadian realist artist of great international repute. Fischer Fine Art, which exhibited this work in 1977, was Alex Colville’s dealer in London, England for many years. Great interest was taken in Colville’s work by European museums and collectors, reflected in the fact that the painting for this fine study is in the collection of Germany’s Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In the catalogue for the 1977 exhibition that included the painting Laser, the text was also in German.

In preparing for his paintings, Colville does a series of studies in which he determines sightlines, compositional elements and colour, and an acrylic work would likely have evolved from earlier pencil drawings. In this vital study which contains all the main elements of the final painting, the figure’s face is partially hidden. The main focus is on the balance and tautness of the body in assured control of the boat, in harmony with wind and water. With his careful observations and distillations of pictorial elements Colville shapes his image, transforming the known world into something extraordinary.


Estimation : 15 000 $ - 20 000 $ CAD

Tous les prix affichés sont en dollars canadiens


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