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Lot 55
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Jack Leonard Shadbolt 1909 - 1998

Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 CAD
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Description

  • Jack Leonard Shadbolt
  • Proclamation
  • signed and dated '63 lower right; signed, titled and dated on the stretcher
  • oil and lucite on canvas
  • 125.1 by 101 cm.
  • 49¼ by 39¾ in.

Provenance

Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto/Montreal

Private Collection, Toronto

Exhibited

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1963

Catalogue Note

Proclamation is a work from the artist's "script" painting series.  Over the surface of a painting he had finished, he would paint dark calligraphic passages, in the same vein as one's signature on a painting or work signifies ownership.