Jean-Paul Lemieux, Une Femme En Hiver
JOYNER WADDINGTON'S
- The painting Une Femme en hiver (A Woman in Winter) by Jean Paul Lemieux (1904-1990). Painted 1970; oil on board; 90 cm by 105 cm.
- The sale June 1, for an estimated $200,000 to $250,000.
- The seller A private collector from Montreal.
- The selling points It's a big, archetypal Lemieux, of an isolated figure with a fierce gaze set against an austere, expansive winter landscape. Good Lemieuxs - and this is a good one - fetch good money: The record for a Lemieux, $462,500, was set three years ago for a canvas originally estimated to sell for $100,000 to $150,000. It's the painterly equivalent of the Quebec "national anthem," Gilles Vigneault's Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays c'est hiver. It's in "fantastic condition," according to Joyner vice-president Rob Cowley.