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  • Chris Cran, STILL LIFE WITH LINE #1, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 28 ins x 22 ins; 71.1 cms x 55.9 cms
    Sep. 21, 2016

    Chris Cran, STILL LIFE WITH LINE #1, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 28 ins x 22 ins; 71.1 cms x 55.9 cms

    Est: -

    Chris CranSTILL LIFE WITH LINE #1, 2015Acrylic on canvas 28 ins x 22 ins; 71.1 cms x 55.9 cms Provenance:Courtesy the artist and Trépanier Baer Gallery, CalgaryNote:In 2016, Calgary-based artist Chris Cran was the subject of a major retrospective, titled “Sincerely Yours,” at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The survey brought together more than 100 paintings and drawings from the past 40 years from the National Gallery’s collection, as well as several other institutional and private lenders. Works by Cran also reside in many collections across Canada, including those of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, as well as a wide range of notable private collections, such as the Aileen Getty, William S. Burroughs and Elizabeth Taylor collections. Since 1979, he has been the recipient of many grants and awards, most recently the Doug and Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award in 2014. He is represented by Trépanier Baer Gallery (Calgary), Clint Roenisch Gallery (Toronto), and Wilding Cran Gallery (Los Angeles). Estimate: $8,000–9,000

    Waddington's
  • Artist: CHRISTOPHER CRAN [b.1949] Canadian Title:
    Nov. 04, 2012

    Artist: CHRISTOPHER CRAN [b.1949] Canadian Title:

    Est: $500 - $700

    Artist: CHRISTOPHER CRAN [b.1949] Canadian Title: Green Still Life #9/40 Media: colour silkscreen on paper 27 x 21 in. / 69 x 53 cm. Dated: 2001 Notes: signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; framed; archival mat Provenance: private collection, Calgary

    Levis Auction
  • Artist: CHRISTOPHER CRAN [b.1949] Canadian Title:
    Nov. 04, 2012

    Artist: CHRISTOPHER CRAN [b.1949] Canadian Title:

    Est: $5,000 - $7,000

    Artist: CHRISTOPHER CRAN [b.1949] Canadian Title: Green Screen #1 Media: oil on canvas 32 x 23.5 in. / 81 x 60 cm. Dated: 1996 Notes: signed, titled and dated verso; unframed Provenance: purchased from Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary; private collection, Calgary

    Levis Auction
  • Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian charcoal and chalk on paper Hand, Spray Can and Spray
    Sep. 27, 2012

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian charcoal and chalk on paper Hand, Spray Can and Spray

    Est: $4,000 - $6,000

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian charcoal and chalk on paper Hand, Spray Can and Spray 18 x 30 inches 45.7 x 76.2 centimeters signed and dated 1984 Literature:Chris Cran, Nancy Tousley and Roald Nasgaard, Chris Cran: Surveying the Damage 1977 - 1997, Kelowna Art Gallery, 1998, a similar work reproduced on page 28 Provenance:Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Alberta Please note: this work is unframed.

    Heffel
  • Chris Cran (b. 1949)
    Dec. 16, 2011

    Chris Cran (b. 1949)

    Est: - $2,000

    Chris Cran (b. 1949) Ant/Nay Screen #4 signed, titled and dated 'Ant/Nay Screen #4 Cran 2005' (on the overlap) oil on canvas 24 x 18 in. (60.9 x 45.7 cm.) Painted in 2005.

    Christie's
  • Chris Cran (b. 1949)
    Dec. 16, 2011

    Chris Cran (b. 1949)

    Est: - $5,000

    Chris Cran (b. 1949) Diamonds and Hamburgers signed, dated and titled 'Diamonds and Hamburgers Cran 05' (on the overlap) oil on canvas 36¼ x 44 in. (92 x 111.7 cm.) Painted in 2005.

    Christie's
  • Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian charcoal and chalk on
    Nov. 26, 2011

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian charcoal and chalk on

    Est: $5,000 - $7,000

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian charcoal and chalk on paper Hand, Spray Can and Spray 18 x 30 inches 45.7 x 76.2 centimeters signed and dated 1984 Literature:Chris Cran, Nancy Tousley and Roald Nasgaard, Chris Cran: Surveying the Damage 1977 - 1997, Kelowna Art Gallery, 1998, a similar work reproduced on page 28 Provenance:Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Alberta

    Heffel
  • Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian oil on canvas
    May. 17, 2011

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian oil on canvas

    Est: $25,000 - $35,000

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian oil on canvas Self-Portrait Just Two Maos Down from Some Guy with a Goddamned Tea Cosy on his Head 66 1/4 x 108 1/4 inches 168.3 x 274.9 centimeters on verso signed, titled, dated 1985 and inscribed ""hang 1 1/2 feet from floor"" Literature:Grant Arnold, Chris Cran: Loved by Millions, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1989, reproduced plate 3 Victoria Baster, Chris Cran: Heads, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 1993, reproduced page 15 Barbara Racker et al, From Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and Its Legacy, from the Collection of the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Eastern Washington State Historical Society and University of Lethbridge, 1998, reproduced page 72 Provenance:Private Collection Exhibited:Stride Gallery, Calgary, Chris Cran: Paintings, April 1986 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Inherent Vice, December 5, 1987 - January 24, 1988 Art Gallery of Windsor, Chris Cran: Loved by Millions, 1989 University of Lethbridge, From Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and Its Legacy, from the Collection of the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, 1998, traveling in 1998 - 2000 to Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington and J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, Texas A&M University University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Artist's Artists, June 5 - September 22, 2006 Chris Cran's explorations of popular culture, artistic authorship, fame and the politics of high art are expressed incisively in the large format Self-Portrait series executed in the mid and late 1980s. In this one, he places himself in context with Mao Tse-tung and Andy Warhol. Cran appears as the well-heeled artist on the left, whose respectful viewing of the red Mao has been interrupted as he notices and glances with disapproval at the defiant figure on the right who crosses his arms over his chest and stares directly, we presume, into the face of the blue Mao. Yellow Mao's gaze captures ours, and an interesting moment of art psychology unfolds as he seems to ask our opinion on this situation. The size of the figures in the work underscores this as, relative to us, they are almost life size; thus we might be standing in another room in the same gallery, gazing in. The smoothly painted surface of the work, cleanly executed in primary colours with black and white, speaks of Pop Art, as does the incongruous message the work sends.

    Heffel
  • Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian oil and acrylic on
    May. 26, 2010

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian oil and acrylic on

    Est: $25,000 - $35,000

    Chris Cran 1949 - Canadian oil and acrylic on canvas Self-Portrait with the Combat Nymphos of Saigon 54 1/2 x 84 1/4 inches 138.4 x 214 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1985 Literature:Roald Nasgaard and Nancy Tousley, Chris Cran - Surveying the Damage 1977 - 1997, Kelowna Art Gallery, 1998, reproduced page 18 and on the cover, listed page 56 Provenance:Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary Exhibited:Kelowna Art Gallery, Chris Cran - Surveying the Damage 1977 - 1997, September 5 - October 18, 1998 This painting is from Chris Cran's first important body of work, commonly called the Self Portraits, produced from 1984 to 1989. Cran explores the tension in the dialectic between mass culture and high art. These paintings are also a response to and critique of the development of the art world art stars of the 1980s and their blatant careerism. In this painting, Cran reproduces an illustration from an early 1960s mens' magazine of bare-breasted combat nymphos shooting up a village in Vietnam Cran, with his art star hat, enters the fray with his impotent wooden gun. He paints himself in oil, whereas the illustrative section is painted in a dry acrylic paint, emulating the qualities of the cheap pulp magazine. Cran made only a dozen of this kind of self portrait, and this is certainly the most notorious of the group. Most of these self portraits are in public collections - only a few remain in private collections.

    Heffel
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