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Lot #233

Artist Alex Janvier
Title On the Verge of Being
Media gouache on paper
Dated 1975
Size 14.25 x 23 in. / 36.2 x 58.4 cm.
Frame Size 18.75 x 27.5 x 1 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed and dated lower right; titled verso; framed with archival mat

Provenance
from a Calgary estate

Sold $5,558 Estimate $5,000/$7,000

Biographical Information
Alex Janvier ~ [1935-2024] Canadian RCA
see The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990, by L.Martin, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1993; Alex Janvier, by Greg Hill, National Gallery of Canada,2016; as well as Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.24 and 86; Time for Dialogue, by J.Cardinal-Schubert, pg.17, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992; see Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg.540; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.76, Westbridge Pub., 2000 and Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.30, U. of A. Press, 1980 for biographies; exhibited at Wallace Galleries, Calgary among others; member of the Alberta Order of Excellence, inducted 2010 and Member of the Order of Canada, inducted 2007; was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2008

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