T00139

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Lot 50
  • 50

Marcelle Maltais b. 1933

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 CAD
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Description

  • Marcelle Maltais
  • Feline
  • signed and dated /57 lower left

  • oil on canvas
  • 101.5 by 127 cm.
  • 40 by 50 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Montreal

Catalogue Note

Maltais studied under Jean-Philippe Dallaire and Jean-Paul Lemieux.  She was swept up by the modernist whirlwind that mobilized the avant-garde milieux in Quebec to explore the notions of abstraction in painting.  Along with Rita Letendre and Marcelle Ferron, she produced oils rich in colour.  By 1968, she abandoned abstraction for more representational art.

Feline immortalizes the artist's favourite Calico cat.