Artist Katerina Mertikas
Title Just Having Fun
Media oil on paper board
Size 10.75 x 13.5 x 12 in. / 27.3 x 34.3 x 30.5 cm.
Frame Size 20 x 23.25 x 1 in.
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed lower left; bears title on gallery label verso; framed
Provenance
Diana Paul Galleries, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Katerina Mertikas ~ [b.1957] Canadian
Born in Tripoli, Greece, self-taught artist Mertikas and her family immigrated to Canada in 1960. Her first show was in Ville Saint Laurent in 1989. Her work has been selected by UNICEF and the Canadian Lung Association for cards, stamps, and calendars to help raise funds for their charities and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at katerinamertikas.com and chaseartgallery.com/collections/mertikas-katerina;
biography and another example in
Guide Vallee, III Edition, by F.Vallee, pg.799, pub. Le Guide Vallee, 1992;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.32, Westbridge Pub., 2001;
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]