Untitled (Egg) by Harold Barling Town
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Cowley Abbott
326 Dundas St West
Toronto ON M5T 1G5
Ph. 1(416)479-9703
Lot #12
Harold Town
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Harold Town
Untitled (Egg)
collage applied to plastic egg
signed and dated 1974; sold together with a wooden stand
3.75 x 2.75 x 2.75 ins ( 9.5 x 7 x 7 cms ) ( overall )
Estimated: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Closes October 26th at 02:00:00 PM EDT
Provenance:
A gift from the artist to a Private Collection, Ontario
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario
A gift from the artist to a Private Collection, Ontario
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario
Harold Town painstakingly created a small number of these “eggs” and gave them as Christmas gifts. The artwork is a symmetrical collage, careful applied upon a plastic egg from which a pair of women’s pantyhose were packaged (as was the packaging used by “L’eggs” from the late 1960s until the early 1990s).
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Harold Barling Town
(1924 - 1990) Painters Eleven, OSA, RCA
Born in 1924, Harold Town lived most of his life in Toronto. He studied at both Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art and, upon graduating in 1945, became an accomplished illustrator for advertising agencies and magazines such as Macleans and Mayfair. Town was a founder and member of the Painters Eleven, a group of Toronto abstract artists that exhibited together during the 1950s.
