Paul-Émile Borduas

AUTO CAS QMG RCA
1905 - 1960
Canadian

Miniatures empressées
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled and dated 1955 on the artist and exhibition labels, inscribed "Laing-4" and "H" twice, numbered #1455 and #2000 and stamped Douane Centrale
57 1/4 x 44 3/4 in, 145.4 x 113.7 cm

CAD

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by Laing Galleries, Toronto, October 20, 1958
Private Collection, Toronto, 1959
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
One Hundred Years of Canadian Painting: A Loan Exhibition, Laing Galleries, 1959, reproduced page 25
François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas: Biographie critique et analyse de l'oeuvre, 1978, listed pages 454, 502 and 533
Karen Wilkin, The Automatists: Then and Now, Galerie Dresdnere, 1986, reproduced page 52
François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography, 2013, listed page 448
Borduas Online Catalogue Raisonné, Concordia University Fine Arts, catalogue #2005-1182, https://borduas.concordia.ca/catalog

EXHIBITED
Laing Galleries, Toronto, One Hundred Years of Canadian Painting: A Loan Exhibition, January 27 - February 8, 1959, catalogue #37
Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto, The Automatists: Then and Now, May 1 - 21, 1986, catalogue #4

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Estimate: $900,000 - $1,200,000 CAD

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