Artist Henri Leopold Masson
Title Mechins
Media oil on canvas
Size 10 x 12 in. / 25.4 x 30.5 cm.
Frame Size 17.25 x 19.25 x 2.25 in.
Sold $550
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed lower centre; signed and titled verso; framed
Provenance
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonto, stamp verso; from a Calgary estate
Biographical Information
Henri Leopold Masson ~ [1907-1996] Canadian CGP, CSGA, CSPWC, FCA, OSA, RCA
see Remembering Henri Masson, 50 Years of Painting, by R.Babinska, Galerie d'Art Vincent, Ottawa, 2001; Henri Masson, La Vision d'un Peintre, by C.Bouchard, Les Editions Lecha, 1979; Henri Masson, by M.Gingras, Collection Signatures, 1981; N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.209; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.299; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.4, pg.1141 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.17, Westbridge Pub., 2001; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.275 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.257; 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