Portrait of the Poet Peter van Toorn
50.8 cms x 40.6 cms (20 ins x 16 ins)
Signed and titled verso
Lot offered for sale by BYDealers, Montréal at the auction event "Post-War and Contemporary" held on Sun, Nov 10, 2019.
Lot 62
Lot 62
Estimate: CAD $8,000 - $12,000
Did not sell
Did not sell
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private collection, Montréal
Notes:
Marion Wagschal was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1943. Wagschal is a painter who has pursued a unique idiom of empathetic figuration. Through her exemplary career, she has developed a realism that encompasses allegory and mythology. The painting offered here is one of her rare egg temperas, an exquisite and unflinching portrait of the Canadian poet Peter van Toorn. It is one of her strongest and most revealing works.
Private collection, Montréal
Notes:
Marion Wagschal was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1943. Wagschal is a painter who has pursued a unique idiom of empathetic figuration. Through her exemplary career, she has developed a realism that encompasses allegory and mythology. The painting offered here is one of her rare egg temperas, an exquisite and unflinching portrait of the Canadian poet Peter van Toorn. It is one of her strongest and most revealing works.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with BYDealers auction house for permission to use.