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Lot #237

Artist . ManWoman
Title Portrait of Marion Nicoll #Proof
Media colour relief print on paper
Size 40.5 x 20.25 in. / 102.9 x 51.4 cm.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed 'P. Kemball', titled and numbered along bottom; mounted on archival mat; unframed; some stains and creases in margins noted

Reference
this image was used on the exhibition invitation for the Allied Arts Centre December 6-19, 1963, Calgary; Figure 21: from the Glenbow Library Archives; see image; the artist, originally known as Patrick Charles Kemball, later to go by ManWoman)

Provenance
private collection, Calgary

Hammer $400 Estimate $500/$700

Biographical Information
. ManWoman ~ [1938-2012] Canadian
born Patrick Charles Kemball, this controversial artist's work and philosophy can be found at www.manwoman.net; biography and another example in Measure of Success: Graduates of the Alberta College of Art, by V.Greenfield, pg.96; Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg. 321 and Vol.4, pg.1100; 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

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