Artist Claude A. Simard
Title July Garden View
Media acrylic on canvas
Dated
1999
Size 30 x 36 in. / 76.2 x 91.4 cm.
Frame Size 39.25 x 45.5 x 2.25 in.
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Notes
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated verso; framed
Provenance
Masters Gallery, Calgary, label verso; corporate collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Claude A. Simard ~ [1943-2014] Canadian RCA
Simard studied at Petit Séminaire de Québec and Académie de Québec then graduated in 1966 from Toronto’s Ontario College of Art in visual communications. He worked in advertising, commercial art, and graphic design, eventually founding his own firm, Groupe Communikart and winning several awards. He was a co-founding member of the Quebec Graphic Designers Society and became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1981. Despite a busy schedule of business and teaching he always maintained his own artistic practise and is represented in galleries and collections across Canada. He also published 3 books on his passions of gardening and painting.
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at claudeasimard.com;
see Claude A. Simard - Painting and Planting the Garden, by C.Simard, 2000
biography and another examples in
Guide Vallee, III Edition, by F.Vallee, pg.990, pub. Le Guide Vallee, 1992;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.25, Westbridge Pub., 2003