Inventory # PCRE-09758-0092

PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
By descent to a Private Collection
Heffel Gallery Limited

LITERATURE
Robert Melville, Alex Colville, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd., 1970, the coins reproduced pages 40-41 and listed page 11, catalogue #34
Helen J. Dow, The Art of Alex Colville, 1972, the related coin reproduced page 121
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, the related coin designs reproduced page 57 and listed pages 252-253
Andrew Hunter, editor, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2014, the coins reproduced, endpapers, unpaginated

EXHIBITED
Heffel Calgary, Alex Colville: Thinking, Making, Reflecting | A Selling Exhibition, March 25 - April 25, 2023

"Colville was commissioned in 1965, after winning a nationwide competition, to design the reverse side of a set of coins to commemorate the centenary of Confederation. The coins were minted in 1967. He made both the measured drawings and plaster models from which the dies were cast. The six coins are: 1 cent - pigeon, 5 cent - rabbit, 10 cent - mackerel, 25 cent - wildcat, 50 cent - wolf, 1 dollar - goose." - David Burnett, Colville, 1983

All prices are in Canadian Dollars

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