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David Alexander Colville b.1920
Description
- David Alexander Colville
- Woman with Brassiere
- signed and dated lower right Alex Colville 1958; signed, titled, dated and inscribed by the artist on the backing SERIGRAPH, 2 COLOURS, EDITION OF 16 on the reverse
- serigraph on paper
- 36.8 by 33.7 cm.
- 14 ½ by 13 ¼ in.
Provenance
Literature
For images of other numbers in this edition, see:
Helen J. Dow, The Art of Alex Colville, Toronto, 1972, plate 67, illustrated in colour, p. 163
David Burnett, Colville, Toronto, 1983, catalogue raisonné no. 126, illustrated p. 194
Michael Bell, Colville, Being Seen, the Serigraphs, Carlton University, 1994, no. 4, illustrated p. 29
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The serigraphs of Alex Colville make up a major part of his total production as an artist. Each is a unique work and not a reproduction of an existing painting. They came about as a desire for the more "ordinary" people to own his art and as a means of adding to his family's income as his painting technique was known to be painstakingly slow.
This is the fourth serigraph he made and dates from 1958. The editions of the early serigraphs were small, as in this case sixteen, and others in an edition of twenty.
The image Woman with Brassiere, was later incorporated into an oil painting Snow of 1969, showing a man and woman at the point of dressing in the morning, looking out their window at the snowy landscape.
This fine work has rarely, if ever, appeared at auction.