Artist Nicholas de Grandmaison
Title Pretty Girl - Peigan
Media pastel on sandpaper
Dated
ca. 1945
Size 27 x 19 in. / 68.6 x 48.3 cm.
Frame Size 43 x 34.5 x 2.5 in.
Sold $8,500
Estimate $15,000 - $25,000
Notes
signed lower left; signed and titled verso; dated on gallery label verso; framed; some scratches on frame noted
Provenance
Loch Gallery, Calgary, 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