Lot 133: [ CANADIAN ART ] MICHAEL SNOW (b. 1929) CHAIRS signed and dated '57' titled and dated on three exhibition labels and two gallery labels on the backing on the reverse brush and black ink on kraft paper mounted on corrugated cardboard 48.2 by 66 cm. 19

[ CANADIAN ART ] MICHAEL SNOW (b. 1929) CHAIRS signed and dated '57' titled and dated on three exhibition labels and two gallery labels on the backing on the reverse brush and black ink on kraft paper mounted on corrugated cardboard 48.2 by 66 cm. 19 by 26 in. PROVENANCE: Purchased from the Greenwich Gallery, Toronto by Dr. Hugo McPherson, 1958 Art Sales and Rental Service, Montreal Museum of Fine Art Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montreal EXHIBITED: Toronto: 1955- 1965, La Decade Formative, Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montreal, 1987 no number The Crisis of Abstraction in Canada: The 1950s, The National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa (travelling), 1993, no. 135, illustrated in exhibition catalogue, p.184 The Michael Snow Project, Art Gallery of Ontario and the Power Plant, Toronto, 1994, no. 126, illustrated in exhibition catalogue p.243 The John A. Schweitzer Collection: Fresh Kills: XXIV Elegies, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, 2003, illustrated and cited in exhibition catalogue p.8