
Untitled
1,955 cms (769.69 ins)
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 37510
Lot 37510
Estimate: CAD $15,000 - $20,000
Realised: CAD $20,400
Realised: CAD $20,400
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibitions:
Espace 55 Exhibition - Showing 11 Montreal Painters, Musée des beaux- arts de Montréal, Montreal, February 11-28, 1955
Paterson Ewen Retrospective, London Regional Art Gallery, London, November 5-29, 1976, no.8
Literature:
Gilles Corbeil, Espace 55 Exhibition - Showing 11 Montreal Painters (Exhibition Catalogue), Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, 1955, unpaginated, listed as no. 3, reproduced
"Peinture 1955", L'autorité, February 26, 1955, reproduced page 6 (image inverted)
Matthew Teitelbaum, Paterson Ewen, The Montreal Years, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 1987, reproduced page 19
Heather A. Fraser, "Paterson Ewen: The Turn from Non-Figurative to Figurative Painting", The Journal of Canadian Art History, Volume 13, No. 1, 1990, reproduced page 29
Notes:
Born in Montreal, Quebec, on April 7, 1925, William Paterson Ewen was interested in art beginning at an early age. As a toddler, Ewen asked his mother for wax to make a tree and several small figures. Ewen's mother was uninterested in décor and refused to purchase decorative items for their house until Ewen was thirteen and requested artist reproductions from Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Jean-François Millet. Three years later, at age sixteen, Ewen produced his first major artistic project--a clay bust of his sister. Around this time, Ewen visited his aunt in Ottawa, where he toured the National Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of History). At this museum, Ewen was inspired by Japanese woodprints, and landscapes. Throughout Ewen's life, Japanese art would be important to his art making practice.
Private Collection, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibitions:
Espace 55 Exhibition - Showing 11 Montreal Painters, Musée des beaux- arts de Montréal, Montreal, February 11-28, 1955
Paterson Ewen Retrospective, London Regional Art Gallery, London, November 5-29, 1976, no.8
Literature:
Gilles Corbeil, Espace 55 Exhibition - Showing 11 Montreal Painters (Exhibition Catalogue), Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, 1955, unpaginated, listed as no. 3, reproduced
"Peinture 1955", L'autorité, February 26, 1955, reproduced page 6 (image inverted)
Matthew Teitelbaum, Paterson Ewen, The Montreal Years, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 1987, reproduced page 19
Heather A. Fraser, "Paterson Ewen: The Turn from Non-Figurative to Figurative Painting", The Journal of Canadian Art History, Volume 13, No. 1, 1990, reproduced page 29
Notes:
Born in Montreal, Quebec, on April 7, 1925, William Paterson Ewen was interested in art beginning at an early age. As a toddler, Ewen asked his mother for wax to make a tree and several small figures. Ewen's mother was uninterested in décor and refused to purchase decorative items for their house until Ewen was thirteen and requested artist reproductions from Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Jean-François Millet. Three years later, at age sixteen, Ewen produced his first major artistic project--a clay bust of his sister. Around this time, Ewen visited his aunt in Ottawa, where he toured the National Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of History). At this museum, Ewen was inspired by Japanese woodprints, and landscapes. Throughout Ewen's life, Japanese art would be important to his art making practice.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.