LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic polymer emulsion on board

Measurements:

13.50 in. (34.30 cm.) (height) by 21.50 in. (54.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

on verso signed, titled and dated 1975

Exhibited:

Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Alex Colville: Paintings and Drawings, 1970 - 1977, March 7 - April 10, 1977, traveling in 1977 to Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf and Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, June 9 - July 8, 1977, catalogue #13; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Alex Colville, A Retrospective, July 22 - September 18, 1983, traveling to Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983 - 1984, catalogue #105

Literature:

Virgil G. Hammock, "Alex Colville: la perfection dans le réalisme / Alex Colville: Perfection and Reality," Vie des Arts, Vol. 21, No. 84, 1976, page 87, reproduced page 17; Marina Vaizey, Alex Colville: Paintings and Drawings, 1970 - 1977, Städtische Kunsthalle and Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1977, listed page 31 and reproduced page 20; David Burnett, Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983, reproduced page 97, listed page 250, catalogue raisonné #105; Mark A. Cheetham, Alex Colville: The Observer Observed, 1994, page 12

Provenance:

Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, 1976; By descent to the present Private Collection, Germany