Artist Nicholas de Grandmaison
Title Blood Indian Hungry Crow
Media pastel on paper
Dated
1930
Size 28 x 19.25 in. / 71.1 x 48.9 cm.
Frame Size 38 x 29.5 x 1.5 in.
Estimate $10,000 - $15,000
Notes
signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'property of my son Nicholas de Grandmaison' verso; framed; tear in paper measuring centre right [0.75 in.]
Provenance
from the collection of Lou MacEachern, Calgary; proceeds will be generously donated to the Estate of Lou MacEachern Fund, a permanent endowment fund at the Calgary Foundation for the benefit of Junior Achievement Southern Alberta
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;
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;
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, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]