Artist Nicholas de Grandmaison
Title Portrait of a Young Man
Media pastel on paper
Dated
1948
Size 12.5 x 9.75 in. / 31.8 x 24.8 cm.
Frame Size 23.25 x 20.25 x 1 in.
Estimate $5,000 - $7,000
Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on gallery label verso; framed with archival mat and special glass
Provenance
Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Nicholas de Grandmaison ~ [1892-1978] Canadian ASA, MSA, RCA
see History in Their Blood; Indian Portraits of Nicholas de Grandmaison, by H.Dempsey, Douglas and McIntyre, 1982 for many other examples; Drawn from the Past, Nicholas de Grandmaison, by Gordon Snyder, Snyder Fine Art, 2007; Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.305 for biography; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.87, Westbridge Pub., 1999; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.155; 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