Artist Marion Florence Nicoll
Title Untitled - Yellow and Red Abstract
Media oil on canvas
Size 36 x 20 in. / 91.4 x 50.8 cm.
Frame Size 37.75 x 21.75 x 1.25 in.
Sold $14,000
Estimate $15,000 - $25,000
Notes
signed lower right; two small chips noted along bottom; framed
Reference
for numerous examples of other canvases see Marion Nicoll: Art and Influences, Glenbow Museum, 1986 and Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy, Davis, A. and Herbert E., University of Calgary Press, 2013; 'Painting variations on Alberta's landscape and character, she abstracted the mountains, winter mornings, and Bowness Road, where she lived, exposing the skeleton beneath Alberta's physical beauty. Her strongest work was marked by abstraction, line, colour and form - and not least by her powerful determination.' quote by Aritha van Herk, excerpted from introduction on pg vii of Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy
Provenance
from a corporate collection, Calgary; purchased at Levis Auction 1997/11/03; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Marion Florence Nicoll ~ [1909-1985] Canadian ASA, RCA
see
Marion Nicoll, A Retrospective 1959-1979, by Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975;
Marion Nicoll R.C.A., by J. Brooks Joyner, published by Masters Gallery, 1979;
Marion Nicoll, Art and Influences, by Christopher E. Jackson, published by Glenbow Museum, 1986;
Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy, by Ann Davis and Elizabeth Herbert, published by University of Calgary Press, 2013;
biography and other examples in
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 94, 1986;
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, pg. 110-112, 1989;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, edited by Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, pg. 406-407, Garland Publishing, 1995;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 3, pg. 54, Westbridge Publishing, 2001;
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 5, pg. 1383;
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]