Lise Gervais
(1933 - 1998)
Previously Sold Works
LISE GERVAIS
La Voie d’Enfer (1959)
oil on board
signed and dated 1959 lower right
32 x 36 ins ( 81.3 x 91.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $14,000.00 - $18,000.00
Price Realized $31,200.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
LISE GERVAIS
La croix du sud
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1962 lower right
27 x 24 in ( 68.6 x 61 cm )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $31,200.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
LISE GERVAIS
Sans titre
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated 1985 on the reverse
32 x 36 ins ( 81.3 x 91.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $15,340.00
Sale date: May 29th 2018
LISE GERVAIS
Les délices
oil on board
signed and dated 1957 on the reverse
35 x 24 ins ( 88.9 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $13,800.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
LISE GERVAIS
Sans titre
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1959 lower right
18 x 16 ins ( 45.7 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $13,200.00
Sale date: June 1st 2021
LISE GERVAIS
Le chat chinois
ink and watercolour
signed and dated 1982 lower right; titled lower left
12.75 x 17.5 ins ( 32.4 x 44.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,180.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
LISE GERVAIS
Flocons de Voltaire (Paris) 1959
watercolour
signed and dated lower right
10 x 7.75 ins ( 25.4 x 19.7 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,080.00
Sale date: November 17th 2020
LISE GERVAIS
Abstraction
oil on canvas board
signed, dated 1990 and inscribed “Joyeux Noel Bonne Annee ‘91 Au d’ LaPipec-Michaud avec toute ma reconnaissance mon amitié” on the reverse
7 x 5 ins ( 17.8 x 12.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $944.00
Sale date: June 23rd 2020
LISE GERVAIS
Premier Petit d’un Malin Gris
oil on canvas board
titled on the reverse
4 x 5 ins ( 10.2 x 12.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $420.00
Sale date: January 31st 2023
LISE GERVAIS
Abstract landscape
ink and marker
signed lower right
7.5 x 9.5 ins ( 19.1 x 24.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $300.00
Sale date: September 24th 2015
LISE GERVAIS
“Tison” o Bûcher
oil on canvas board
signed and titled along the lower edge
5 x 7 ins ( 12.7 x 17.8 cms )
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L. Gervais Biography
(1933 - 1998)
Born in St. Cesaire, Quebec, Gervais studied both painting and sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Montreal under Stanley Cosgrove and Jacques de Tonnancour (painting); Jean Simard, M. Marcotte, and S. Duquette (drawing); and under Louis Archambault (sculpture). She travelled to Europe in 1958 where she visited Spain and viewed particularly the drawings and paintings of Goya.
After a number of group shows in Quebec, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Chicoutimi, Granby, Sherbrooke and Ottawa, she held her first solo show at Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal, in February of 1961; she exhibited there again in 1962 and in Toronto at the Moos Gallery. Viewing her paintings in 1964 Dorothy Pfeiffer commented, “. . . in spite of the amount in pounds of paint laid on her canvases, Gervais manages to suggest dimensions of space, depth, transparency, texture, and movement which are remarkable . . . colourful, stencil-like, paintings climb like exotic vines, or else soar like flights of birds of paradise. Everything moves, flies, rises, or flaps loudly in Gervais’ paintings. But nothing – absolutely nothing – flutters. In fact, the dominant note in her technique is ‘power,’ a power both authoritative and invigorating.”
Spanning a period of sixteen years during the 60's and 70's, she taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, at Universite du Quebec a Montreal, and at Concordia University. In 1967 she exhibited at the Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec and also at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. In 1970 she had two other shows, one at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal and another in Paris at the Musee Rodin. In 1983-84, she was elected president of the Conseil des Artistes-Peintres du Quebec. Her works in the collections of Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Queen’s University (Kingston) and the Albright Knox Museum (Buffalo, USA).
While living in Montreal, she spent most of her time in the solitude of the woods and lakes in the Laurentides, Quebec. She died at age 65.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979
