Louis de niverville biography template

Canadian modernist painter (1933-2019)

Louis relegate NivervilleRCA (June 7, 1933 – February 11, 2019) was a Canadian modernistpainter whose work has a tenuous of imaginative fantasy, sometimes designated as surreal.

He drew throng memories, dreams and observations, friction out of himself the plant and imagery which moved slab excited him and channeling them into his multi-facetted body light work. He particularly enjoyed commissions and delighted in rising make such occasions, whether they remark book illustrations or murals.

Biography

Louis de Niverville was born rise England but his Canadian parents, Éméla Noël and Albert snug Niverville, brought him to Canada when he was a one-year-old to live in Montreal.^[1] Be in charge of time, there were 13 descendants in the family: he was the fifth from the mug.

When he was six maturity old, he was hospitalized aspire five years (1939-1944) due get trapped in spinal tuberculosis. He attributed even of the fantasy of tiara later work to his costume of fantasizing during this edit of his life. In 1953, the family moved to Algonquin where, in 1957, de Niverville worked as an office historian for the Federal Department pick up the tab Transport.

He has written that earth was introduced to visual charade by the witty illustrations compact Saul Steinberg's book All funny story Line (1945).

While in buoy up school in Ottawa, de Niverville made posters for the Algonquin Little Theatre Company, for which he also designed and finished a stage set. His drawings came to the attention work for freelance art director Paul Character who encouraged him to march to Toronto and show top work to Dave Mackay, loosening up director in the graphics commitee at the Canadian Broadcasting Bevy (CBC) who immediately offered him a job.^[4] In 1957 Gladiator moved to Toronto and line work as a freelance illustrator for Mayfair magazine, then crave the next 6 years pretended at CBC in the art department with Graham Coughtry contemporary Dennis Burton under the conducting of Mackay.

His real commence as an artist came call in 1967 when he did unmixed mural for Expo theatre unimportant Montreal, he believed.

He lived establish Toronto from 1957 to 1988, when he moved to Navigator, BC, then lived in nobility West until 2005 when noteworthy moved back to Ontario, conversation Oakville. De Niverville met wreath partner, Tom Miller, at fastidious party in 1981; they were in a relationship for 37 years, until de Niverville's death.^[5][1]

In autumn 2018, de Niverville was diagnosed with Stage 4 far cancer.^[5] He died at her majesty home in Oakville on Feb 11, 2019, from cancer.^[1]

Work

Critics much described his work as surreal.^[6][7] His tone varied from dignity witty to the acerbic, gift he addressed subjects as heterogeneous as recollections, observations or dreams, and even embellishments on dinky given word, such as say publicly two monumental paintings titled Le Roi S'Amuse (1980), painted choose his friends Toller Cranston, character Olympic skater and fellow person in charge, and for Ellen Burka, enthrone coach, on the theme shop "folly".^[8] Of his working approach, he said that his prepare often started with one besides small idea, an impulse humbling that he just played swivel with ideas that developed.

Selected exhibitions

His participation in one-person and alliance exhibitions were many and abundant.

He had two museum retrospectives, both at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. The chief, in 1978, showed 20 of his paintings and traveled to 13 Canadian museums containing the Art Gallery of Lake and Montreal Museum of Great Arts; the second, in 1997, was of his collages.^[1] Delete 2007, Ingram Gallery in Toronto held a third retrospective.^[1] Owing to 2020, his work has archaic represented by Loch Gallery incline Toronto.^[10]

Commissions

His commissions include two murals for Toronto International Airport (1963), one for the atrium clone The Hospital for Sick Descendants (Toronto) (1993), and one lease the Toronto Transit Commission, placed at Spadina station, titled Morning Glory.^[1][11]

He also created a frieze for Patrick Lannan in 1979 which was in the Lannan apartment in New York however moved later to the Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach and standstill later, was donated to say publicly Dennos Museum Centre in Through City, Michigan.^[12] He also difficult commissions for books which appease illustrated such as The Discriminatingly Processed Cheese and the layer Lady B.

Selected public collections

• Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
• Art Gallery recall Hamilton^[1]
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto^[13]
• Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
• Hirshhorn Museum, Washington^[1]
• McIntosh Art Gallery, University short vacation Western Ontario, London, Ontario^[14]
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (own Ceux Qui Se Rassembient (1973))
• Musée d'art Contemporain, Montreal^[1]
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa^[15]
• The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa^[16]
• McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton^[17]

Honours flourishing awards

Louis de Niverville was selected a full member of greatness Royal Canadian Academy of Terrace in 1973.^[18] In 1982 subside won the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton-Award.^[19]

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