Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction, 1st Session

May 27, 2008

LOT 186

Lot 186

GREGORY RICHARD CURNOE

GREGORY RICHARD CURNOE
Lot 186 Details
GREGORY RICHARD CURNOE

ICU, 1962

collage on paper
artist-made frame
8 1/2 ins x 13 3/4 ins; 21.3 cms x 34.4 cms

Estimate $6,000-$8,000

Realised: $5,750
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
Hugo A. McPherson, Toronto
Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montreal

Exhibited:

Curnoe, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1963.
Toronto:1955-1965, “La Decade Formative”, Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montreal, 1987.
Of Collage, The Artist as Collector, The John A. Schweitzer Collection, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, October 11-November 23, 2003, page 7. reproduced.

Note:

In the Preface of the exhibition catalogue “Of Collage...”, Joyce Millar writes: “Greg Curnoe’s ICU (1962) plays on two circular ‘eye-glass forms’ filled with pasted memorabilia that allude to a lost past in the found ticket stubs and high school photos including one of friend Les Levine”.

CONDITION DETAILS

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