Lot 55
  • 55

Yves Gaucher 1934 - 2000

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CAD
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Description

  • Yves Gaucher
  • Three works from the Hommage à Webern suite
  • each signed and dated '63, the first two titled En Hommage  à Webern, numbers 1 and 3 respectively and inscribed epreuve d'artist at the lower edge, the third titled 2e Hommage  à Webern, and numbered 5/30

     

  • impression in relief on laminated paper
  • each 55.5 by 75.5 cm.
  • each 21 7/8 by 29½ in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature

The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Edmonton Art Gallery, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Yves Gaucher, (exhibition catalogue), 1969 for En Hommage  à Webern #1, #2, #3 (p.5) listed and (pp.6-7) for two works for this suite, reproduced.
Roald Nasgaard, Yves Gaucher, A Fifteen Year Perspective 1963-1978, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1979, pp.19-26 for a discussion of this suite and pp.14 (cat no.1), 18 (cat no. 2) and 22 (cat no.3) for En Hommage à Webern #1, 2 and 3 respectively, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Nasgaard notes that Gaucher "produced a suite of three large but stringently composed prints entitled Hommage  à Webern...to commemorate the impact of an Anton Webern concert he had heard in Paris the year before", and that "it is in these prints, as Gaucher has always insisted, that he attained his artistic maturity."