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David Alexander Colville b. 1920
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 CAD
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Description
- David Alexander Colville
- Sketch for Backdrop for Vesper Service
- signed and dated '54 lower right
- gouache and pencil
- 20.4 by 81.3 cm.
- 8 by 32 in.
Provenance
Private Collection, Pennsylvania
Literature
David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1983, p. 166 for Altarpiece, reproduced
Catalogue Note
The very large original Backdrop for Vesper Service, which measured 244 by 975 cm. and was executed in casein on wrapping paper, was destroyed, and only this preparatory study for it, which the large work followed very closely, now exists.