La laiterie, Île d'Orléans
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Spring Auction of Important Canadian Art" held on Wed, Jun 9, 2021.
Lot 37737
Lot 37737
Estimate: CAD $8,000 - $12,000
Realised: CAD $14,400
Realised: CAD $14,400
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Frances K. Smith, André Biéler: An Artist's Life and Times, Richmond Hill, Ontario, pages 50-58, reproduced page 58
Notes:
Born at Lausanne, Switzerland. He received his earliest drawing lessons from his uncle Ernest Biéler, a Swiss artist. The Biéler family lived in Paris for 12 years before coming to Canada in 1908. They settled in Montreal, Quebec. At the age of 20, André joined the Canadian army and served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry overseas, and was a casualty of an enemy gas attack. Following his release from the army be studied at Lycée Carnot in Paris, and later, with the aid of a soldier's settlement grant he studied with Eugene Speicher and George Bellows at the Art Students' League, Woodstock, N.Y. He returned to France and in Paris, studied at the Ecole du Louvre and with Paul Serusier and Maurice Denis. In Switzerland he assisted his uncle in the making of several frescos.
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Frances K. Smith, André Biéler: An Artist's Life and Times, Richmond Hill, Ontario, pages 50-58, reproduced page 58
Notes:
Born at Lausanne, Switzerland. He received his earliest drawing lessons from his uncle Ernest Biéler, a Swiss artist. The Biéler family lived in Paris for 12 years before coming to Canada in 1908. They settled in Montreal, Quebec. At the age of 20, André joined the Canadian army and served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry overseas, and was a casualty of an enemy gas attack. Following his release from the army be studied at Lycée Carnot in Paris, and later, with the aid of a soldier's settlement grant he studied with Eugene Speicher and George Bellows at the Art Students' League, Woodstock, N.Y. He returned to France and in Paris, studied at the Ecole du Louvre and with Paul Serusier and Maurice Denis. In Switzerland he assisted his uncle in the making of several frescos.
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