Artist Orestes [Rick] de Grandmaison
Title Spruce Trees in Snowstorm
Media oil on wood board
Dated
1974
Size 13.5 x 17.5 in. / 34.3 x 44.4 cm.
Frame Size 21 x 25 x 1.75 in.
Sold $325
Estimate $600 - $800
Notes
signed and dated lower right; signed and titled verso; scuff marks and surface dirt noted; framed
Provenance
from a Calgary estate
Biographical Information
Orestes [Rick] de Grandmaison ~ [1932-1985] Canadian
see Spaces and Places - Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.122; Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.20, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, pg.306 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.87, Westbridge Pub., 1999; see Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 60, pg. 292, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009; 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