Reclining Male, 1965

oil on canvas

signed lower left; titled on the stretcher on the reverse; titled and dated 1965 on an exhibition label on the reverse

16 × 23 in (40.6 × 58.4 cm)

Auction Estimate:$8,000 - $12,000

Sale date:July 11 - 25, 2023

Price Realized

$7,800

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Lillian Adamson, Manitoba Private Collection, Calgary

Exhibited

“Ivan Eyre, Personal Mythologies/Images of the Milieu”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; traveling to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; the Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; and the London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, 29 September – 20 November 1988, no. 17

Literature

Terrence Heath, “Ivan Eyre: Personal Mythologies”, Winnipeg, 1988, no. 17, reproduced page 45