Artist Alex Janvier
Title Untitled - Colourful Birds
Media watercolour and goauche on paper
Dated
1971
Size 8.25 x 11 in. / 21 x 27.9 cm.
Frame Size 31.5 x 34.5 x 1.5 in.
Sold $4,750
Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
Notes
signed and inscribed '287' lower right; dated under mat; framed with archival mat; chips on corners of frame noted
Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Alex Janvier ~ [1935-2024] Canadian RCA
see The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990, by L.Martin, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1993; Alex Janvier, by Greg Hill, National Gallery of Canada,2016; as well as Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.24 and 86; Time for Dialogue, by J.Cardinal-Schubert, pg.17, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992; see Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg.540; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.76, Westbridge Pub., 2000 and Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.30, U. of A. Press, 1980 for biographies; exhibited at Wallace Galleries, Calgary among others; member of the Alberta Order of Excellence, inducted 2010 and Member of the Order of Canada, inducted 2007; was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2008