René Marcil French-Canadian, 1917-1993
L'Ecole Communale de Venice, 1953
Oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 24 in.
49.5 x 61 cm.
49.5 x 61 cm.
Signed "Rene Marcil" lower right
Provenance
Loch Gallery, Toronto
Other works by René Marcil are owned by the Collections Nationales de France; the Louvre Museum, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Sweeney Collection of the...
Other works by René Marcil are owned by the Collections Nationales de France; the Louvre Museum, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Sweeney Collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1956, Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney wrote that "the free handling of [Marcil's] broad color area was very happy."
