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Lot 2: Mary Filer, Saturday Night - Self Portrait

Est: $800 CAD - $1,200 CADPassed
4th Meridian Fine ArtPenticton, BC, CAOctober 17, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Exceptionally large linocut by Mary Filer, Canadian artist 1920-2016. Nurse, artist, art teacher, muralist, glass artist. Mary Filer was born in 1920 in Edmonton, Alberta. She lived in Regina, Saskatchewan as a young woman, studying at Balfour Technical School in Regina, with accomplished artist Garnet Hazard (1939-1941) where she was a gifted student with a love for music, acting, art and costume design. With her parents’ encouragement, she studied nursing at Regina General Hospital (1941-1944). In 1944 Filer moved to Montreal to study at McGill University’s Neurological Institute (1944-1946). While in Montreal, Filer studied with Arthur Lismer at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ School of Art and Design and later with John Lyman at McGill University (1948-1950), where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Filer taught at McGill until 1952, when she went to Pennsylvania State University to earn a Master’s of Education degree. Filer stayed at that institution to teach until 1955, followed by a year of teaching at New York University (1955-1956) before moving to England, teaching and working on her art in a variety of mediums. In 1967, she returned to Canada, settling in Vancouver, BC. As part of her master’s degree under Viktor Lowenfeld at Pennsylvania State, she created a 142-square-foot mural. Completed in 1954, “The Advance of Neurology” is at the Montreal Neurological Institute where she had done post-graduate studies. In the mural, Filer has included self-portraits of herself as both patient and nurse. This work was selected for Heritage Status by McGill University in the 1980s. Mary Filer mastered several mediums, including drawing, painting, linocut, woodcut, and etching, and later cold-pressed glass sculpture. In 2005, Mary Filer was named a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She died in Vancouver, BC, in 2016.

Dimensions

Image: 16" x 25" Frame: 26" x 31.5"

Artist or Maker

Medium

linocut on paper

Condition Report

very good

Notes

Frame and glass are heavy

Payment & Shipping

Payment

Accepted forms of payment: MasterCard, Money Order / Cashiers Check, Paypal, Visa, Wire Transfer

Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.

Auction Details

October Estates Auction

by
4th Meridian Fine Art
October 17, 2021, 04:00 PM PST

104-1475 Fairview Rd, Penticton, BC, V2A 7W5, CA

Terms

Buyer's Premium

18.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$99$5
$100$499$10
$500+$25

Extended Bidding

5 minutes/bid

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9. All currency figures are in Canadian dollars.

Payment and Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.

Payment and Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.