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Lot #476

Artist Clifford Foard Robinson
Title Requiem for Youth
Media watercolour on paper
Dated 1970
Size 21 x 29.5 in. / 53.3 x 74.9 cm.
Frame Size 31.75 x 39 x 1.25 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed with initials lower left; bears artist's name, title and date on gallery label verso; framed; chips and damage to frame noted

Provenance
High Street Gallery, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Edmonton

Sold $644 Estimate $500/$700

Biographical Information
Clifford Foard Robinson ~ [1917-1992] Canadian ASA, CSGA, FCA
see Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.119; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.93; The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect, by A.Oko, pg.76, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1981; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.27, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; see Printmaking in B.C. 1883-1983, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.108, Westbridge Pub., 2001; Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.109; the proper spelling according to the family is Foard and not Feard which possibly resulted from the artists hand written biographical information sent to the National Gallery

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