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    • Helen V Piddington serigraph, Untitled mountains 1983
      May. 01, 2022

      Helen V Piddington serigraph, Untitled mountains 1983

      Est: $600 - $800

      Scarce serigraph by Canadian woman artist, Helen Piddington, Untitled 1983 edition 4/30 Helen Vivian Piddington (Canadian 1931 - ) The Piddingtons arrived in Esquimalt, Victoria from Quebec in 1924, and soon after, in 1931, welcomed their 10th and last child, Helen Vivian Piddington. The family settled into a life that in many ways typified well-off Victoria families of the period; the household boasted a governess, a nanny, a housemaid, a cook and a gardener and occupied an imposing home designed by Victoria's favourite residential architect, Samuel Maclure. Then, during the 1930s, the Piddington's life of privileged comfort vanished thanks to the Great Depression and Major Piddington's bad luck in business. From then on the elder Piddingtons were forced to look after their vast brood themselves, her father growing their food and her mother belatedly learning to cook. Piddington studied at Art at UBC and the L'Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris and has shown her work around the world. She is a renowned BC printmaker and artist who established and directed the Printmaker’s Workshop in West Vancouver until 1975.

In 1975, Piddington moved with her husband and first daughter to Loughborough Inlet in the 1975 and has lived there ever since. Her book, The Inlet, chronicles their early life struggles homesteading in the inlet. Helen Piddington is the author of two autobiographies, The Inlet and Rumble Seat, (Harbour Publishing).
 Collections: 
National Gallery of Canada
, British Columbia Arts Council
, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Galley at UBC, 
The Victoria and Albert Museum

      4th Meridian Fine Art
    • Helen Piddington (Canadian, born 1931); As It Was;
      Jan. 17, 2010

      Helen Piddington (Canadian, born 1931); As It Was;

      Est: $100 - $150

      As It Was, n.d. Lithograph in colors on wove paper, signed in pencil, titled and annotated 'Épreuve d'essai', with full margins, framed. 14 x 14 1/4in sheet 25 1/2 x 19 5/8in

      Bonhams
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