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Construction (Puzzle) by Ulysse Comtois

Artwork by Ulysse Comtois, Construction (Puzzle)

Ulysse Comtois
Construction (Puzzle)

painted wood relief
signed and dated 1956 lower right
18.5 x 15.75 x 1.5 ins ( 47 x 40 x 3.8 cms ) ( overall )

Auction Estimate: $4,000.00$3,000.00 - $4,000.00

Price Realized $3,910.00
Sale date: June 1st 2016

Provenance:
Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal
Waddington & Gorce Inc., Montreal
Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal
Collection of the Artist, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibited:
“Ulysse Comtois 1952-1982”, Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, April 7-May 22, 1983, cat. no. 84
Literature:
Manon Blanchette, “Ulysse Comtois 1952-1982”, 1983, page 100, reproduced page 129
Throughout the 1960s, Comtois was developing his practice as a sculptor, reconciling his painterly techniques and developing skills in sculpture. During this time, the artist created wood relief pieces, merging organic shapes with hard-edge painting technique, a popular experimentation among members of Les Plasticiens. An interesting cross-over artwork, there is an inherent tension between flattening the image plane and creating depth as the bands of black run over the raised green and orange organic shapes, never breaking their line. Only when viewed at an angle can the viewer see the raised shapes from the supporting surface.

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Ulysse Comtois
(1931 - 1999)

HighlightsWatch Artist

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