CANADIAN ART & BOOKS FOR SALE
Marc Poissant, Canadian, Improvisation Chromatique, #69, 1999.
Canvas 20" x 16"
Marc Poissant (1945-) was born in Montreal and grew up in the Outaouais region of Québec. “Improvisations Chroniques” painted in 1999, is #68 of his numbered series of oil paintings.
“Marc Poissant sait faire danser la couleur. Marc Poissant a toujours été un passionné de la couleur: il veut la connaître, la comprendre et l’exprimer dans tous ses états”. (Les Amis et Riverains de la Rivière Châteauguay).
COLLECTIONS:
La confédération des Caisses Populaires Desjardins;
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Crédit industriel Desjardins
Groupe SNC-Lavalin
Cartier-Power
Memorial Medical Center (Florida)
Assurances la Capitale
Musée Laurier
Numerous private Collections
EXHIBITIONS:
Marc Poissant has participated in more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Quebec. He has published research on Picasso and mounted an exhibition based on his research.
PROVENANCE:
Galerie du Chateau Tremblant, 1999. Included is the Certificate of Authentication.
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Marc Poissant (1945-) was born in Montreal and grew up in the Outaouais region of Québec. “Improvisations Chroniques” painted in 1999, is #68 of his numbered series of oil paintings.
“Marc Poissant sait faire danser la couleur. Marc Poissant a toujours été un passionné de la couleur: il veut la connaître, la comprendre et l’exprimer dans tous ses états”. (Les Amis et Riverains de la Rivière Châteauguay).
COLLECTIONS:
La confédération des Caisses Populaires Desjardins;
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Crédit industriel Desjardins
Groupe SNC-Lavalin
Cartier-Power
Memorial Medical Center (Florida)
Assurances la Capitale
Musée Laurier
Numerous private Collections
EXHIBITIONS:
Marc Poissant has participated in more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Quebec. He has published research on Picasso and mounted an exhibition based on his research.
PROVENANCE:
Galerie du Chateau Tremblant, 1999. Included is the Certificate of Authentication.
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A Set of Four Paintings by Canadian Modernist Yvonne Williams
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Set of 4 rare paintings by Canadian Modernist Yvonne Williams of Parry Sound, ON. Very good condition; One of the four paintings is signed; Certificates of authentication are included.
1. "Lone Pine, Georgian Bay"
2. "Landscape with Rolling Hills"
3. "Summer landscape with Trees and Hills" Signed Y.W.
4. "Summer Landscape"
Yvonne Williams, RCA, (1901-1997), studied sculpture and then painting with Group of Seven members Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley, and J.E.H. MacDonald at the Ontario College of Art, winning the Governor General's Gold Medal for excellence in life drawing and design. She stayed an additional year to focus on stained glass (fine art metal and glass) with Grace Coombs. She studied in Europe and apprenticed with Charles Connick in Boston. who became her lifelong mentor.
In 1930 she opened a studio in a house rented from Arthur Lismer, who had taught with her at OCA. Located on Cariboo Avenue in North Toronto, it was in operation for nearly thirty years and saw over four hundred commissions for both public and private spaces – churches, schools, hospitals and residences – across the country.
Images of her work were used on the Yuletide 20 cent stamp in 1976 and the 52 cent stamp in 1997. The 1976 stamp is on display in the stamp collection gallery at the Canadian Museum of History.
Williams forged a unique, contemporary and influential style, contributing greatly to the development of modernist stained glass in Canada. She died in Parry Sound, Ontario, where a park has been named in her honour.
PROVENANCE:
Estate of Yvonne Williams
D & E Lake, Toronto
Participation:
1935, #348 "The Nativity" stained-glass designs #349 Jubilee window
1960 #71 "Memory of Stratford"
1970 #98 example of double stained-glass installation,
Drawing 1965 for stained-glass window at St. Bernard's Hospital Toronto, 1965.
Art Association of Montreal
1936 #577-80 "The Ancient Mariner"
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fulford, Robert, "She Puts New Life into Stained Glass", Mayfair 28, (December 1954), p.28-30, 86-89.
Gannon, Mo, "Lives Lived. Yvonne Williams", Globe & Mail. Wednesday, December 24, 1997.
Lerner, Loren and Williamson, Mary F., Architecture in Canada.
McCarthy, Pearl. "Yvonne Williams Produces New Stained Glass Work", Globe & Mail, 1951.
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1. "Lone Pine, Georgian Bay"
2. "Landscape with Rolling Hills"
3. "Summer landscape with Trees and Hills" Signed Y.W.
4. "Summer Landscape"
Yvonne Williams, RCA, (1901-1997), studied sculpture and then painting with Group of Seven members Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley, and J.E.H. MacDonald at the Ontario College of Art, winning the Governor General's Gold Medal for excellence in life drawing and design. She stayed an additional year to focus on stained glass (fine art metal and glass) with Grace Coombs. She studied in Europe and apprenticed with Charles Connick in Boston. who became her lifelong mentor.
In 1930 she opened a studio in a house rented from Arthur Lismer, who had taught with her at OCA. Located on Cariboo Avenue in North Toronto, it was in operation for nearly thirty years and saw over four hundred commissions for both public and private spaces – churches, schools, hospitals and residences – across the country.
Images of her work were used on the Yuletide 20 cent stamp in 1976 and the 52 cent stamp in 1997. The 1976 stamp is on display in the stamp collection gallery at the Canadian Museum of History.
Williams forged a unique, contemporary and influential style, contributing greatly to the development of modernist stained glass in Canada. She died in Parry Sound, Ontario, where a park has been named in her honour.
PROVENANCE:
Estate of Yvonne Williams
D & E Lake, Toronto
Participation:
1935, #348 "The Nativity" stained-glass designs #349 Jubilee window
1960 #71 "Memory of Stratford"
1970 #98 example of double stained-glass installation,
Drawing 1965 for stained-glass window at St. Bernard's Hospital Toronto, 1965.
Art Association of Montreal
1936 #577-80 "The Ancient Mariner"
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fulford, Robert, "She Puts New Life into Stained Glass", Mayfair 28, (December 1954), p.28-30, 86-89.
Gannon, Mo, "Lives Lived. Yvonne Williams", Globe & Mail. Wednesday, December 24, 1997.
Lerner, Loren and Williamson, Mary F., Architecture in Canada.
McCarthy, Pearl. "Yvonne Williams Produces New Stained Glass Work", Globe & Mail, 1951.
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Canadian Modernist: RUTH M. ELIOT, 1913-2002, Ottawa, Ontario.
View of the St Lawrence River from the Eliot cottage. Au verso: Black-Eyed Susans
(No longer available. Now part of the Brockville Museum collection.)
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The Eliot cottage was next door to "Fernbank", the summer home of Prudence Heward, member of The Women of Beaver Hall. Ruth Eliot frequently joined Heward and her friends on their painting picnics.
Double-sided, oil on panel, 12" x 16”
PROVENANCE:
Ruth Eliot Estate
Walker's, Ottawa
D & E Lake, Toronto
EXHIBITIONS:
The Group of Seven: 1931
Canadian Group of Painters: 1933,1934,1936,1942, 1944.
Art Association of Montreal: 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940
D & E Lake: "By A Lady", 2005; "Painted Panels", 2006.
Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Art Association of Ottawa.
RUTH ELIOT COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of Ontario:"Autumn Eastern Township"
Hart House, University of Toronto: "Winter, Ottawa"
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Canadian Modernist: Allan Harrison (1911-1988)
"Paris Street, (Pointe Gentilly, Près de la Cité Universitaire, Paris France)", 1933. "Steamship" au verso.
(No longer available. Pleased to report that it's now with the Harrison family.)
Double-sided, oil on panel, 12" x 16”
PROVENANCE:
Ruth Eliot Estate
Walker's, Ottawa
D & E Lake, Toronto
EXHIBITIONS:
The Group of Seven: 1931
Canadian Group of Painters: 1933,1934,1936,1942, 1944.
Art Association of Montreal: 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940
D & E Lake: "By A Lady", 2005; "Painted Panels", 2006.
Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Art Association of Ottawa.
RUTH ELIOT COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of Ontario:"Autumn Eastern Township"
Hart House, University of Toronto: "Winter, Ottawa"
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Canadian Modernist: Allan Harrison (1911-1988)
"Paris Street, (Pointe Gentilly, Près de la Cité Universitaire, Paris France)", 1933. "Steamship" au verso.
(No longer available. Pleased to report that it's now with the Harrison family.)
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Double-sided, 15" x 11", oil on panel. With frame 19" x 15".
Included is a signed catalogue of Harrison's solo show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Jan 27-Feb 19,1978) and a bookmark which he designed for Classics Bookstores.
Canadian (William) Allan Harrison (1911-1988) studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal with John Lyman and André Biéler, then at the Art Students’ League of New York with Kimon Nicolaides. He worked (1932-33) at the Atelier under the direction of John Lyman and André Biéler, and was a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society. In 1947-48, he painted with Arpad Szenès in Paris, and in 1956, worked in the atelier of André Lhote.
Provenance: Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto
Interview:
September 13, 1973 with Charles Hill, author of "Canadian Painting in the 30s".
Collections:
Allan Harrison’s work can be found in many private and public collections in Canada and abroad, including
Musée du Québec,
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Canada Council Art Bank,
Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem,
Maison de Radio-Canada in Montreal.
Exhibitions:
AAM: 1939, 1941, 1942
RCA: 1970
Special: 1941,1944,1945,1947,1957,1964,1976
Group: 1937,1939-1945,1945,1953,1956,1957,1958,1963-66,1964,1966,1972,1974
Solo: MMFA, “Allan Harrison", January 27-February 19,1978. (Catalogue included with purchase)
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Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Canadian, "Kids"
Etching, 28/35, 3 1/2" x 23 1/2"
"Kids" by Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, ARCA, (1923-2005), Montreal, Quebec. Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Conseil des artistes peintres du Québec, and the Conseil québecois de l'estampe. Studied in New York at the Parsons School of Design and the Arts Students League.
"Ghitta Caiserman has remained a figurative artist when most painters of her generation have chosen abstraction. She has focused on many themes, from domestic scenes of her own family to observations on contemporary chaos, in a compelling group of studies called Riots." Paul Duval, The Canadian Group of Painters and Their Contemporaries 1930-1970.
PROVENANCE:
La Galerie Shayne, Royalmount, Montreal.
AWARDS:
Governor General's Visual and Media Arts Award for Painting
Canadian Centennial Medal
Canada Council Senior Fellowship
Canada Council Purchase Awards
Hadassah Art Auction Awards
Art Gallery of Brandt Purchase Award
I.J. Segal Ninth Annual Award for the Arts
Monsanto Certificate of Merit
Living Nature 86 Prize
EXHIBITIONS:
AAM: 1936, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963. RCA: 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1976
CGP: 1950-1970.
COLLECTIONS:
In the collection of the Art Gallery Ontario ("Friends", 1953, colour lithograph) and in 31 additional collections (List available upon request).
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Françoise Pagnuelo, Canadian, Près de St. Marguerite, c.1930.
Oil on Board, 12" x 15 3/4"
Françoise Pagnuelo (!918-1957) was born in Westmount, P.Q. She studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and with Harold Beament, Edwin Holgate, T.R. MacDonald, Lilias Torrance Newton, and Adam Sherriff Scott.
Provenance:
D.& E. Lake, Toronto
Exhibitions:
1940 -1944 & 1953 Art Association of Montreal
1943 Henry Morgan Co
1946 Palais Montcalm
1947 & 1949 Amis de l’Art
1949 Atelier à Sainte-Adèle
1950 Cercle Universitaire
1951 Granby, P.Q.
1952 Club Social, Sherbrooke
1952 Chateau Murray, La Malbaie
1952 Chateau Frontenac
1952 Peintres Montréalais, Chalet de la Montagne, Mtl
1953-1956 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Montreal
1956 Independent Art Association
1956 13 peintres féminins Ile Ste Hélène
Collection:
Musée nationale des beaux arts du Québec
References:
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada: Artists in Canada, A Union List of Artist’s Files.
E.P. Taylor Research Library, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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USED CANADIAN ART BOOKS:
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1. Expressions of Will: The Art of Prudence Heward
Very rare and much sought-after catalogue. Natalie Luckyj Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston The McMichael Collection, Kleinburg 1986 Note: The cover shows edgewear, fading, and light creasing. No markings in the text. Largely black & white as well as four large colour illustrations. Written in both English and French. IBSN: 0-88911-402-1 Contact editor |
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