Virgule by Ulysse Comtois
Ulysse Comtois
Virgule
painted wood relief
signed and dated 1966 on the upper left edge
12 x 15.75 x 1.75 ins ( 30.5 x 40 x 4.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $3,000.00
Sale date: April 19th 2022
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Quebec
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, "Ulysse Comtois, 1952 - 1982", April 7 – May 22, 1983, catalogue #102
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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
