Lot 121
  • 121

Jean Philippe Dallaire 1916 - 1965

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 CAD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean-Philippe Dallaire
  • Le Chasseur, Paris, 1945
  • signed, inscribed and dated upper left DALLAIRE, PARIS, '45
  • gouache

  • 47.0 by 61 cm.
  • 18 ½ by 24 in.

Provenance

Sotheby's Toronto, May 1971, illustrated p. 18

Private Collection, Ontario

Literature

Donald W. Buchanan, "Dallaire", Canadian Art, Summer 1955, article on Dallaire, p. 144.

Guy Robert, Dallaire, Montreal, 1980, reproduced in colour, p. 240, reproduced in colour.

Condition

This work has been viewed under UV and it is in very good condition. It is laid down loosely on cardboard and subtle glue spots are visible on the reverse.
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Catalogue Note

Dallaire developed a very distinctive and whimsical style early in his career. His use of joyous colours and fanciful characters often betrays a darker and slightly macabre tone which is clearly indebted to Surrealism.  This work was painted in 1945, shortly after Dallaire was released from the internment camp where he was incarcerated during the Second World War.