AUTO CAS OC QMG RCA SCA
1923 - 2002
Canadian
Sans titre
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1949 and on verso titled Abstraction, dated on the Musée d’art contemporain exhibition label, inscribed "491 Stuart, Montreal, PQ Canada" and "2" (circled) and stamped Galerie Gilles Corbeil, 2175 rue Crescent, Montreal
28 3/4 x 36 1/8 in, 73 x 91.8 cm
Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD
Sold for: $721,250
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PROVENANCE
Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal
Maurice Corbeil, Montreal
Galerie Claude Lafitte, Montreal
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Vancouver, 1995
LITERATURE
Evan H. Turner, Eleven Artists in Montreal / Onze artistes à Montréal, 1860 – 1960, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1960, titled as Abstraction, listed, unpaginated
Gilles Henault, Panorama de la peinture au Québec, 1940 – 1966, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1967, listed
R.H. Hubbard, Painters of Quebec: Maurice et Andrée Corbeil Collection, National Gallery of Canada, 1973, titled as Abstraction, listed page 202 and reproduced page 203
Ann Davis, Frontiers of Our Dreams: Quebec Painting in the 1940s and 1950s, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979, titled as Abstraction, listed and reproduced page 83
Guy Robert, Riopelle, Chasseur d’images, 1981, detail reproduced page 61
Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1, 1939 – 1953, 1999, reproduced page 252 and listed page 368, catalogue #1949.001H.1949
EXHIBITED
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Eleven Artists in Montreal / Onze artistes à Montréal, 1860 – 1960, September 8 – October 2, 1960, catalogue #101
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Panorama I de la peinture au Québec, 1940 – 1955, May 15 – June 25, 1967, catalogue #59
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Painters of Quebec: Maurice et Andrée Corbeil Collection, March 30 – April 24, 1973, traveling to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, May 10 – June 10, 1973
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Frontiers of Our Dreams: Quebec Painting in the 1940s and 1950s, February 9 – April 22, 1979, catalogue #29
Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD
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