DoBo by Ulysse Comtois

Ulysse Comtois
DoBo
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1961 lower right; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
16 x 14 ins ( 40.6 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $5,428.00
Sale date: November 19th 2019
Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
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Ulysse Comtois
(1931 - 1999)
Born at Granby, Quebec, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal and exhibited first in that city about 1954.A member of the Non-Figurative Artists’ Association of Montreal, he has exhibited at the Denyse Delrue Gallery, and jointly with Rita Letendre at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Norton Gallery), and elsewhere. He has worked at commercial art, free lance photography, painting and sculpting. His paintings have appeared in the Third and Fourth Biennials of Canadian Art.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977