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Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Louis de Niverville. Selected public collections [ edit ]. Louis de Niverville RCA June 7, — February 11, was a Canadian modernist painter whose work has a quality of imaginative fantasy, sometimes described as surreal. Tools Tools.

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For fifteen years Thomas was the resident designer for Mermaid Theatre and created several award winning productions which toured Canada, England, Wales, Australia, Japan and the United States. She has done curatorial work and research in museum settings. Andover, England. His experimental and thought-provoking art, often mislabelled as "surrealist," defied simple categorization.

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Get to know us. He drew on memories, dreams and observations, pulling out of himself the feelings and imagery which moved and excited him and channeling them into his multi-facetted body of work. Contents move to sidebar hide. Bibliography [ edit ]. Permanent Collection. Louis de Niverville June 7, Andover, England. In Thomas left teaching to co-found Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, which specializes in mixed media puppet productions for young people.

Customer reviews. Currently, she applies her research skills to various projects for authors and filmmakers. The ninth of thirteen children, young Louis was sent to a sanatorium in Ottawa for treatment of spinal tuberculosis at age six. His drawings came to the attention of freelance art director Paul Arthur who encouraged him to go to Toronto and show his work to Dave Mackay, art director in the graphics department at the Canadian Broadcasting Company CBC who immediately offered him a job.

ISBN Archived from the original on October 14, Saturday Night. His work relied heavily on his dreams and daydreams, and explored aspects of the individual, culture and nature, and often featured surreal "inside-outside" spaces. His participation in one-person and group exhibitions were many and numerous. He lived in Toronto from to , when he moved to Vancouver, BC, then lived in the West until when he moved back to Ontario, to Oakville.

Heather Bell's biographical piece on de Niverville's childhood illuminates a practice seemingly born of childhood trauma and whimsy. He went on to mount critically acclaimed exhibitions of Modern Italian artists de Chirico, Morandi, Fontana and a survey of the Italian Futurists while in New York, along with many well-known contemporary painters.

Tobi Bruce is head of exhibitions and collections, and chief curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. XCI 1 : 38— Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use mdy dates from June Articles with hCards.