Jean Paul Lemieux (1904-1990) - Nineteen Ten Remembered

Nineteen Ten Remembered

oil on canvas
106.7 cms x 146 cms (42 ins x 57.5 ins)
Signed and dated 1962 and on verso titled and inscribed "appartient à anne sophie lemieux, madeleine lemieux - 70"
made in 1962
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Fall 2011 Live auction" held on Thu, Nov 24, 2011.
Lot 018
Estimate: CAD $0 - $0
Realised: CAD $2,340,000

Lot description - from the online catalogue*

Provenance:
Collection of Mme. Madeleine Des Rosiers (Lemieux) and Anne Sophie Lemieux, Sillery, Quebec

Acquired directly from the Estate of the Artist by Rosaire Archambault, Montreal

A Prominent Montreal Collection

Exhibitions:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Fifth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, September 20 - October 27, 1963, traveling to the Commonwealth Institute, London, England, the Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, the Musée du Québec and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1963 - 1964, catalogue #37

Le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Jean Paul Lemieux, September 15 - October 11, 1967, traveling to the Musée du Québec and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1967 - 1968, catalogue # 35

Musée du Québec, Jean Paul Lemieux, 1974, traveling to Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Paris, 1974 - 1975, catalogue #5

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Literature:
Gabrielle Roy, "Les 'terres nouvelles' de Jean Paul Lemieux", Vie des Arts, Winter 1962 - 1963, pages 38 - 43, reproduced page 40

Robert Ayre, "Jean Paul Lemieux and the Lonely Land", Montreal Star, April 1963, mentioned and reproduced, unpaginated

Luc d'Iberville-Moreau, Jean Paul Lemieux, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, 1967, listed page 77, reproduced page 37

Guy Robert, Jean Paul Lemieux, ou la poétique de la souvenance, 1968, pages 10 and 68, reproduced page 69

Anne Hébert, Jean Paul Lemieux: Moscou, Léningrad, Prague, Paris, Ministère des Affairs culturelles du Québec, 1974, page 10, reproduced front cover and page 23

Jean Paul Lemieux peintre québécois, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1974, page 16 and reproduced front cover

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Notes:
Literature [continued]:

Guy Robert, Lemieux, 1975, reproduced front cover and pages 35 (detail), 136 (Musée du Québec 1967 retrospective exhibition photograph), 147 (Moscow 1974 retrospective exhibition photograph) and 200

"16 peintres du Québec dans leur milieu", Vie des arts, 1978, page 97

Marcel Dubé, Jean Paul Lemieux et le livre, 1988, pages 70 and 80

Marie Carani, Jean Paul Lemieux, Musée du Quebéc, 1992, listed page 276 and reproduced page 177

L'effet Lemieux, Musée des beaux-arts du Québec, 1992, reproduced page 10

Au fil des évènements, Université Laval, June 11, 1992, reproduced page 13

Ann Duncan, "An Artful Approach to Summer in the City", The Gazette, June 12, 1993, reproduced, unpaginated

Claude Desjardins, "Jean Paul Lemieux, livre, marginal, moqueur et inquiet", La Voix des Mille-Îles, June 27, 1993, mentioned, unpaginated

Christophe Pellet, "Les espaces de Jean Paul Lemieux peintre canadien", La côté des arts, September 1993, reproduced, unpaginated

Gaëtan Brulotte, L'univers de Jean Paul Lemieux, 1996, reproduced front cover

Michèle Grandbois, Jean Paul Lemieux au Musée du Québec, Musée du Québec, 2001, reproduced page 109

John R. Porter, Pierre Théberge, Anne Sophie Lemieux and Madeleine Lacerte, Homage to Jean Paul Lemieux, National Gallery of Canada, 2004, listed page 119 and reproduced page 83

Jennifer Dales, "Alone in the Universe: The Landscapes of Jean Paul Lemieux", Canadian Medical Association Journal, February 2005, pages 383 - 384, reproduced page 383

Nathalie Bondil, All For Art! In Conversation with Collectors, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, reproduced page 155

Michèle Grandbois, Jean Paul Lemieux au Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2007, reproduced pages 4 (Musée du Québec 1967 retrospective exhibition photograph) and 100

Jean Paul Lemieux - Exposition rétrospective, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, 2009, reproduced page 11

Exhibited [continued]:

Musée du Quebéc, Jean Paul Lemieux, June 3 - November 1, 1992, catalogue #60

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Homage to Jean Paul Lemieux, October 22, 2004 - January 2, 2005, traveling to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 2005, catalogue #30

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, All For Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share their Works, December 6, 2007 - March 2, 2008, catalogue #191

Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal, Jean Paul Lemieux - Exposition rétrospective, September 12 - 16, 2009
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
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Nineteen Ten Remembered by artist Jean Paul Lemieux