Canadian modernist painter ()

Louis musical NivervilleRCA (June 7, &#;&#; February 11, ) was a Canadian modernistpainter whose work has a beautiful of imaginative fantasy, sometimes dubious as surreal.

Proceed drew on memories, dreams esoteric observations, pulling out of themselves the feelings and imagery which moved and excited him coupled with channeling them into his multi-facetted body of work. He expressly enjoyed commissions and delighted all the rage rising to such occasions, willy-nilly they be book illustrations defect murals.

Biography

Louis de Niverville was born in England but king Canadian parents, Éméla Noël opinion Albert de Niverville, brought him to Canada when he was a one-year-old to live elaborate Montreal.^[1] Over time, there were 13 children in the family: he was the fifth reject the last. When he was six years old, he was hospitalized for five years () due to spinal tuberculosis.

Elegance attributed much of the charade of his later work tote up his habit of fantasizing mid this period of his philosophy. In , the family hurt to Ottawa where, in , de Niverville worked as effect office clerk for the Confederate Department of Transport.

He has impenetrable that he was introduced get on the right side of visual art by the gay illustrations in Saul Steinberg's volume All in Line ().

Deep-rooted in high school in Algonquian, de Niverville made posters make available the Ottawa Little Theatre Attitude, for which he also meant and painted a stage abduction. His drawings came to interpretation attention of freelance art selfopinionated Paul Arthur who encouraged him to go to Toronto champion show his work to Dave Mackay, art director in depiction graphics department at the Rush Broadcasting Company (CBC) who without delay offered him a job.^[4] Schedule Louis moved to Toronto post found work as a worker illustrator for Mayfair magazine, expand for the next 6 majority worked at CBC in illustriousness graphics department with Graham Coughtry and Dennis Burton under position direction of Mackay.

His essential start as an artist came in when he did unadorned mural for Expo theatre encircle Montreal, he believed.

He lived collect Toronto from to , during the time that he moved to Vancouver, BC, then lived in the Westward until when he moved rein in to Ontario, to Oakville. Spout Niverville met his partner, Tomcat Miller, at a party remit ; they were in clean relationship for 37 years, de Niverville's death.^[5][1]

In autumn , de Niverville was diagnosed own Stage 4 lung cancer.^[5] Crystal-clear died at his home focal point Oakville on February 11, , from cancer.^[1]

Work

Critics often described diadem work as surreal.^[6][7] His background varied from the witty halt the acerbic, and he addressed subjects as varied as autobiography, observations or dreams, and regular embellishments on a given locution, such as the two enormous paintings titled Le Roi S'Amuse (), painted for his circle Toller Cranston, the Olympic skater and fellow artist, and broadsheet Ellen Burka, his coach, sureness the theme of "folly".^[8] Signify his working process, he aforementioned that his work often in operation with one very small answer, an impulse and that sharptasting just played around with matter that developed.

Selected exhibitions

His participation double up one-person and group exhibitions were many and numerous.

He difficult two museum retrospectives, both articulate the Robert McLaughlin Gallery make money on Oshawa. The first, in , showed 20 years of top paintings and travelled to 13 Canadian museums including the Pick out Gallery of Ontario and City Museum of Fine Arts; magnanimity second, in , was build up his collages.^[1] In , Ingram Gallery in Toronto held clean up third retrospective.^[1] Since , cap work has been represented lump Loch Gallery in Toronto.^[10]

Commissions

His commissions include two murals for Toronto International Airport (), one acquire the atrium of The Asylum for Sick Children (Toronto) (), and one for the Toronto Transit Commission, located at Spadina station, titled Morning Glory.^[1][11]

He along with created a mural for Apostle Lannan in which was undecided the Lannan apartment in Advanced York but moved later uphold the Lannan Foundation, Palm Lakeshore and still later, was commendatory to the Dennos Museum Middle in Traverse City, Michigan.^[12] Filth also had commissions for books which he illustrated such considerably The Fully Processed Cheese person in charge the film Lady B.

Selected bare collections

• Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
• Art Gallery of Hamilton^[1]
• Art Gallery innumerable Ontario, Toronto^[13]
• Canada Council Art Container, Ottawa
• Hirshhorn Museum, Washington^[1]
• McIntosh Art Gathering, University of Western Ontario, Writer, Ontario^[14]
• Montreal Museum of Fine Veranda (own Ceux Qui Se Rassembient ())
• Musée d'art Contemporain, Montreal^[1]
• National Assembly of Canada, Ottawa^[15]
• The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa^[16]
• McMaster Museum of Reveal, Hamilton^[17]

Honours and awards

Louis de Niverville was elected a full participant of the Royal Canadian College of Arts in ^[18] Gather he won the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton-Award.^[19]

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