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Current bid: $2,750 CAD
Bidding History
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27504 21-Apr-2021 12:56:01 PM $2,750
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27504 21-Apr-2021 11:30:48 AM $1,900
822956 21-Apr-2021 11:29:51 AM $1,800
27504 21-Apr-2021 11:28:18 AM $1,700
822956 21-Apr-2021 10:19:14 AM $1,600
27504 20-Apr-2021 11:28:04 PM $1,500
822938 20-Apr-2021 08:12:17 PM $1,400
823121 20-Apr-2021 06:15:50 PM $1,300
27504 15-Apr-2021 12:49:30 AM $1,200
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31331 10-Apr-2021 05:00:54 PM $900 autobid
27504 09-Apr-2021 01:59:26 PM $800
822938 09-Apr-2021 01:57:51 PM $700
27504 09-Apr-2021 12:56:09 AM $600
822982 08-Apr-2021 04:58:54 PM $500

LOT h005

CAS OC PY QMG RCA
1906 - 1988
Canadian

Les Grâces
colour serigraph on paper
signed, titled, editioned E.A. 9/15 and dated 1974
21 1/8 x 16 1/4 in, 53.8 x 41.2 cm

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 CAD

Sold for: $3,438

Preview at: Heffel Montreal

PROVENANCE
Legs Madeleine Poliseno-Pelland Bequest
Fondation du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec


A symbol of voluptuousness and carnal pleasure, the woman appears in the Pellanian universe until the artist’s last works. Through her, Pellan tackles eroticism, one of Surrealism’s favourite subjects and an essential theme throughout his oeuvre. Alfred Pellan’s female iconographic repertoire is also at times associated with other symbolic dimensions. Woman, thus sublimated, embodies fertility, the cosmos, or regeneration. In certain darker works, the female form becomes instead, an allegory on the passage of time (memento mori). In this way, she is associated with the representation of death, the inescapable destiny of all living beings.

Figure de la volupté et du plaisir charnel, la femme a traversé l’univers pellanien jusque dans les dernières œuvres de l’artiste. Par elle, Pellan aborde l’érotisme, un des sujets de prédilection du surréalisme – référence primordiale dans l’ensemble de sa production. Le répertoire iconographique féminin de Pellan est aussi parfois associé à d’autres symboliques. La femme, sublimée, incarne alors la fertilité, l’univers cosmique ou la régénérescence. Dans certaines œuvres plus sombres, la figure féminine s’apparente plutôt à une allégorie du temps qui passe (memento mori). Elle côtoie alors la représentation de la mort, inéluctable destin de tout être vivant.

We thank Eve-Lyne Beaudry and Marie-Hélène Métivier for the contributing the original French essay.

Please note: the full sheet size of this work is 26 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches.

Please note: Consignor proceeds of this Lot will benefit the Fondation du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. This lot is accompanied by a certificate of provenance from the Fondation du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

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