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Lot #152

Artist Peter Shostak
Title We Did Not Want to Settle in 'Siniboia
Media oil on canvas
Dated 2012
Size 24 x 30 in. / 61 x 76.2 cm.
Frame Size 35.5 x 41.5 x 1.5 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on gallery label verso; framed

Provenance
Canada House Gallery, Banff, label verso; from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder, a prominent Calgary philanthropist; proceeds from this work will help fulfill Joan's wishes to support the University of Calgary. To read more about Dr. Joan Snyder, visit the University of Calgary's Memoriam

Sold $2,691 Estimate $3,000/$4,000

Biographical Information
Peter Shostak ~ [b.1943] Canadian
see artist's website www.petershostak.com

see When Nights Were Long, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1982; Saturday Came but Once a Week, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1984; For Our Children, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1991; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 23, Westbridge Pub., 2003; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; large exhibition opening Oct. 16, 2014 at West End Gallery, Edmonton

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