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LOT 009

PC CC
1920 - 2013
Canadien

Study for January
encre et crayon sur papier
signé et daté 15 Fév 74 et au verso titré et daté sur l’étiquette de l’exposition
4 x 4 po, 10.2 x 10.2 cm

Estimation : 12 000 $ - 16 000 $ CAD

Exposition à :

PROVENANCE
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton
Collection de Peggy Marko, Edmonton

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, la lithographie Labors of the Month: January reproduite page 8 et répertoriée page 250
Ray Cronin, magazine du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, 1er janvier 2021, https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/alex-colvilles-labours-of-the-months-for-a-new-year, consulté le 24 juin 2021

EXPOSITION
The Edmonton Art Museum, Edmonton Collections: Docents' Choice, Edmonton, 1985


In 1979, Alex Colville produced a portfolio of 12 lithographs entitled A Book of Hours: Labours of the Months, based on small paintings from 1974 depicting scenes referring to each month of the year. Colville wrote in the accompanying artist statement that he wanted “to continue the medieval tradition of Books of Hours and Labours of the Months,” which were books of prayers and meditations, organized on various time cycles. Colville’s images for each month were ones meaningful to him personally, based on where he lived in Wolfville in the Annapolis Valley.

In Study for January, he works out the central element of the painting and print - a man pruning an apple tree. Precariously perched in the top of the tree, he is cutting away any dead or diseased branches with a saw to ensure new growth and a good harvest. Ray Cronin wrote that “January is fitting for a suite of images rooted in a form developed for a book of prayers. January depicts the work of ordering and tending that keeps chaos at bay. For Colville, this was a ritualistic, if not exactly religious, endeavour. Order, he felt, had to be tended – individually and collectively. A veteran of the Second World War, he knew that chaos was always lurking and, in January, he shares a meaningful image of one strategy to keep that danger at bay.”


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