This beautiful silkscreen, titled La laine des moutons (Wool of the Sheep), is by Swiss-born Canadian artist André Biéler whose work is found in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Feckless Collection, Vancouver, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal.
Biéler exhibited internationally in Geneva, Switzerland and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and domestically in Montreal, Kingston, Quebec City, Edmonton, Calgary, Banff, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Toronto. The 1970 retrospective, André Biéler, 50 years: a retrospective exhibition 1920-1970, organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, traveled across Canada.
The print is in mint condition; the frame shows some wear and has minor scratches.
Artist: André Charles Biéler, 1896 - 1989
Title: La laine des moutons (Wool of the Sheep)
Date: 1927 (printed 1970)
Medium: silkscreen on paper
Edition: 35/120
Size (frame): c.58.5x60cm / 23”x23.5”
Size (paper): c.43x43cm / 17”x17”
Size (print): c.33.5x34cm / 13”x13”
Size (print): c.33.5x34cm / 13”x13”
Signed, titled, editioned and dated at bottom.