Artist John Gould
Title Torero
Media mixed media on paper board
Dated
1961
Size 39 x 27.5 in. / 99.1 x 69.8 cm.
Frame Size 42.5 x 31.25 x 1.75 in.
Sold $1,600
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed and dated lower right; bears title on gallery label verso; framed; minor handling marks noted; some staining in bottom left corner and scuffing from frame in margins noted
Provenance
Here & Now Art Gallery, Toronto, label verso; from a Calgary estate
Biographical Information
John Gould ~ [1804-1881] British
see Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.18, Westbridge Pub., 2000; important British ornithologist writing numerous books on a variety of birds including those from the Himalaya Mountains, Europe and Australia; he worked closely with Charles Darwin to publish Part 3 of Zoology of H.M.S. Beagle between 1938 and 1842