Artist Marion Florence Nicoll
Title Automatic
Media watercolour on paper
Dated
1952
Size 15.5 x 13.25 in. / 39.4 x 33.7 cm.
Frame Size 23.5 x 20 x 1 in.
Sold $2,500
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed, titled and dated lower right; framed
Reference
illustrated and titled 'Automatic Bird' on page 69 in Marion Nicoll R.C.A. by J. Brooks Joyner; published by Masters Gallery, Calgary, 1979
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Marion Florence Nicoll ~ [1909-1985] Canadian ASA, RCA
see
Marion Nicoll, A Retrospective 1959-1979, by Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975;
Marion Nicoll R.C.A., by J. Brooks Joyner, published by Masters Gallery, 1979;
Marion Nicoll, Art and Influences, by Christopher E. Jackson, published by Glenbow Museum, 1986;
Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy, by Ann Davis and Elizabeth Herbert, published by University of Calgary Press, 2013;
biography and other examples in
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 94, 1986;
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, pg. 110-112, 1989;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, edited by Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, pg. 406-407, Garland Publishing, 1995;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 3, pg. 54, Westbridge Publishing, 2001;
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 5, pg. 1383;
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]