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Lot 20: ILLINGWORTH KERR - Magpies - Winter Sun

Est: $160 CAD - $240 CADSold:
Saskatchewan Network for Art CollectingRegina, SK, CANovember 02, 2019

Item Overview

Description

ILLINGWORTH KERR (Canadian, 1905-1989) "Magpies - Winter Sun" - Limited edition linocut 67/100. Signed lower right, titled lower left, editioned lower centre, framed. 10 x 6 in.

Dimensions

10 x 6 in.

Artist or Maker

Medium

Limited edition linocut 67/100

Condition Report

Excellent condition

Exhibited

"Magpies, Winter Sun" can also be found in several public collections including Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Edmonton) and Glenbow Museum (Calgary).

Literature

Printmakers in Alberta 1945-1985 (University of Alberta Press, 1989, illustrated page 29)

Notes

Saskatchewan NAC bio: Illingworth Kerr was born in 1905 in Lumsden, Saskatchewan. He began drawing at an early age, with the encouragement of his mother. In 1919, he had entered 14 of his works into the Regina Exhibition - and all of them won awards. Kerr studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1924 to 1927 and at the Westminster School of Art in London, England in 1936. Throughout this time, he was creating the art that he would become best known for: landscape paintings of the prairies and foothills, guided by, as he described it, a desire to 'look for the design elements in nature.' Over a career that spanned more than 60 years, Kerr's interest went beyond landscape painting to include ink, charcoal, linocuts, and portraits. Kerr taught at the Vancouver School of Art in 1946, and later spent 20 years as the Head of the Art Department at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, retiring in 1967 to pursue art full-time. His former colleague there, Stan Perrott, claimed that Kerr was 'a tower of strength in Alberta... The painters of Alberta today may not paint like Buck Kerr--but they are his children. They all caught his spirit. He was the central reference point for artistic morality and dynamic living." Kerr exhibited his work often, and held retrospectives in 1940, 1962, 1975, and 1985. His work is in the collections of many galleries, including the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Kerr was awarded a Canada Council Senior Fellowship (1959), an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary (1973), and the Order of Canada (1983), and was a member of the Alberta Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy. While best known as a visual artist, Kerr was also a writer. His publications include short stories for Blackwood's magazine of Edinburgh (early 1930s), an illustrated book of stories about prairie life called Gay Dogs and Dark Horses (1946), and his autobiography, Paint and Circumstance (1987). Illingworth Kerr died in Calgary in 1989.

Payment & Shipping

Payment

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Shipping

Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting can provide purchasers with several options for packing and shipping throughout Canada and abroad. All packing and shipping is done at the expense of the purchaser. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lots, you will receive email notification. Please then contact us to discuss your packing, shipping and pick-up preferences. All artworks are located in Regina, Saskatchewn and are available for pick-up. Also, buyers in Saskatoon will be able to have their artworks delivered directly by Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting for a low cost (determined by size, weight and value).

Auction Details

Saskatchewan and Canadian Art

by
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
November 02, 2019, 01:00 PM MST

2241 Smith St, Regina, SK, S4P 2P5, CA

Terms

Buyer's Premium

18.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$49$2
$50$99$5
$100$199$10
$200$599$20
$600$1,999$50
$2,000$9,999$100
$10,000+$200

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5 minutes/bid

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Payment

Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale. Payment via PayPal, Visa or Mastercard will be subject to a 2.5% surcharge on the invoice total.
Successful bidders will receive an invoice via email from the auctioneer within one day of the close of the auction.

Buyers Premium

A Buyers Premium of 18% will be added to the Hammer Price for all lots sold.

Shipping

Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting can provide purchasers with several options for packing and shipping throughout Canada and abroad. All packing and shipping is done at the expense of the purchaser. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lots, you will receive email notification. Please then contact us to discuss your packing, shipping and pick-up preferences. All artworks are located in Regina, Saskatchewn and are available for pick-up. Also, buyers in Saskatoon will be able to have their artworks delivered directly by Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting for a low cost (determined by size, weight and value).