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Q1/2007
The Painters Eleven Forum coming 2007 www.p11.ca
One of the most ambitious events in Canadian art is about to become very public once again. The Cahén Foundation, The Estate of Harold Town, The May Collection, Art Portfolio Collection Management Limited, and the Christopher Cutts Gallery announce an invitation to participate in, contribute to, and visit the first comprehensive website dedicated to Canada’s Painters Eleven. The p11 Forum will help develop a central meeting point to honour and promote the legacy of this unique group of Canadian painters. Additional sponsors will be announced in the New Year.
For further information concerning the p11, click the 'Painters Eleven' section under 'The Artist' menu heading.
To receive more information, as it becomes available, please register at www.p11.ca .
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Q1/2007
To reintroduce and reinforce the voice of Oscar Cahén across Canada and internationally, and to honour his contribution to Canadian art, as well as to provide leadership in the preservation and conservation of Canadian fine art, The Cahén Archives is pleased to announce the formation of The Cahén Foundation, the Cahén Archives Fund and ArtPortfolio Collection Management Limited.
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Q4/2006
REMEMBERING OSCAR CAHÉN (1916-1956)
Gallery Moos cordially invites you to view the work of Canadian artist Oscar Cahén.
This exhibition, on the 50th anniversary of Cahén’s death, commemorates his vast influence on Canadian art. Please join us for an early viewing Saturday, November 25th 2006 from 2 to 6 p.m. Exhibition continues to 27th January 2007.
gallery moos
622 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1Y9
Tel: (416) 504 5445 Fax: (416) 504 5446 www.gallerymoos.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 to 6 p.m.
Member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada
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HOMMAGE À OSCAR CAHÉN (1916-1956)
La Galerie Samuel Lallouz a le plaisir de vous convier à la présentation des œuvres de l'artiste canadien Oscar Cahén. Cette exposition, qui coïncide acec le 50e anniversaire de la mort de Cahén, célèbre son immense influence sur l'art canadien.
Le mercredi 22 novembre 2006 de 17h à 20h
L'exposition se poursuivra jusqu'au 27 janvier 2007.
A TRIBUTE TO OSCAR CAHÉN (1916-1956)
Galerie Samuel Lallouz is pleased to invite you to a premiere of work by Canadian artist Oscar Cahén. This exhibition, on the 50th anniversary of Cahén's death, commemorates his vast influence on Canadian art.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
This exhibition will continue until January 27th, 2007.
Galerie Samuel Lallouz
1434, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, bureau 200
Tél.: (514)849-5844 www.galeriesamuellallouz.com info@galeriesamuellallouz.com
Heures d'ouverture: de 11h à 18h du mardi au samedi.
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Oscar Cahén
Sans titre / Untitled FAMM 057
Pastel, aquarelle et gouache sur carbon à dessin
Pastel, watercolour and gouache
on illustration board
101 x 75.6cm (29 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.)
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Q4/2006
The Cahén Archives and The Cahén Foundation are pleased to announce a series of initiatives to remember The Canadian Master, Oscar Cahén.
Walter Moos of Toronto’s Moos Gallery and Samuel Lallouz of Montreal’s Galerie Samuel Lallouz have been appointed to represent the works of Oscar Cahén in their respective Toronto and Montreal galleries.
The Cahén Archives also presented a special preview selection at The 2006 Toronto International Art Fair, from November 9th to 13th, under the auspices of Gallery Moos and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Jeffery Spalding AGNS Director presented The Cahén Archives at the Special Collectors Preview evening sponsored by The Art Gallery of Ontario. See www.tiafair.com.
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Q4/2006
Pre-Order Publications
You are invited to register for your copy of “Oscar Cahén, Past as Prologue,”
by Jeffrey Spalding, Director and Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
This publication, a Preview to a second publishing initiative to be launched in 2007
will be available for $30.00 plus tax, shipping and handling.
For further information concerning pre-ordering publications
from The Cahén Archives™,
please complete the order form, on the 'Request for Information' page under the 'Contact Us' section.
Please contact us if you have any suggestions, additions or amendments. Thank you.
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Q3/2005
Oscar Cahén
Bibliography
We are pleased to announce a new section under
the heading ‘Bibliography’.
This substantive, although as yet incomplete
bibliographical list, is published here for the
first time. Please
contact us if
you have any suggestions, additions or
amendments.
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Raymonde Davidson,
'guide bénévole' (docent) at The National
Gallery of Canada, will be presenting
The Warrior
by Oscar Cahén, on June 2nd
and June 9th
at the National Gallery in Ottawa.
For a transcript in French,
contact us.
An armorial historian, having reviewed Cahén’s
studies for The Warrior, alongside a
number of wooden sculptures with an armorial
theme, confirms these pieces demonstrate
significant accuracy with respect to their
armorial references.
Several of the shields and helmets date to what
are believed to include 13th century, mainly
Portuguese armour. It is possible that some
items of this period were exhibited at The ROM
when Oscar lived in Toronto.
Several of the drawings present the Warrior
mounted on an abstraction representing the
'foreshortened' horse. In the medals struck in
this period, and particularly with respect to
paintings, horses were traditionally
foreshortened to a single plane. On the right
hand side of the Warrior drawings, one finds the
lance being handed by the Squire to the Warrior.
In the painting, the Squire is not present but
the arm formation (left arm of the Warrior right
hand of the picture) is consistent with these
earlier drawings. In the central chest area, one
finds important iconography which Oscar used as
early as 1949 in his animal and rooster images
(see FAO-013 Animal.)
In addition to this painting, which is currently
on loan to the National Gallery, the NGC owns
four works by Oscar Cahén acquired between 1953
and 1996.
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FAG-050
Study for The Warrior
ink on paper
28" X 42".
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FAO-013
Animal
oil on masonite
20" X 24".
© The Cahén Archives |
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Cahén illustration chosen to represent Romance
 Canadian
Obsessions: A Century of National Preoccupations
as seen by Maclean’s.
“For a nation with a collective,
ingrained habit of self-effacement, Canada has an
extraordinary knack for surprising the world. But
our country’s obsessions – hockey, weather, national
identity – have stayed remarkably constant over
the years.
After telling Canada’s story for the past century,
Maclean’s is uniquely placed to recognize those
obsessions. And, as the magazine prepares to mark
its centennial, the people who put this book together
have mined the Maclean’s archives to uncover the
images and words that best reflect 100 enduring
Canadian preoccupations.”
Editor: Pamela Young. Canadian Obsessions, Douglas
& McIntyre Vancouver ISBN 1-55365-097-2.
(Maclean's
- CANADIAN OBSESSIONS)
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Cahén Landscape Acquired by European Collector
 Known
for his powerful abstract and illustration work,
a unique Cahén piece Fogwood Farm painted
when Oscar first moved into King, Ontario, reflecting
his neighbour, the painter, Frank Fog's house.
A rare photograph of
the artist with this piece as a work in progress
forms part of the painting's special provenance.
Coincidentally, the
National Post featured the Cahén home, now known
as Painter's Hollow, on Saturday January
15 2005, in an article entitled Working From
a Fresh Palette by Connie Adair. Current owner,
designer / landscape architect Robert Packham, has
restored and expanded the property into an 'exquisite
residence.'
(www.homestore.ca/toronto/marsland)
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FAO-378
Fogwood Farm
Oil on canvas mounted on board
20 X 24 in. 50.8 X 61 cm.
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Simon Fraser University
Copyrights © 2003
Vancouver Academy of Independent Scholars
Simon Fraser University
All Rights Reserved
Vancouver Academy of Independent
Scholars
Founder:
Dr. Yosef Wosk
Chairman: Mark Dwor
November 4th
2004
Michael Cahén: Lecture
Oscar Cahén: The Road to Recognition
The Context: The Business World and
The Art Business Serving Stakeholders
"Coterminus in needs, Contradistinct in deeds"
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“The artist, the curator,
the collector - and by implication - all stakeholders
are poorly served by current practices in the Canadian
art market.
The broad Canadian art environment has seen no real
change in fundamental business practices, while
the majority of markets undergo transformation and
re-invention. Rare signs evolving transparency in
the Canadian art world simply magnify a backdrop
of complacency, and what could be taken as a blithe
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Maclean's Oct 25,
2004
vol.117 no. 43: 59-64
Bringing Back Oscar
by Katherine Macklem
Publisher: Rogers Publishing Ltd.
© Copyright 2004
www.macleans.ca
ISSN 0024-9262
Cahén, Oscar
(MACLEAN'S
PROFILE - The Canadian Encyclopedia)
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'CAHÉN,' says
McLaughlin Gallery's
Aurandt, 'is one of those
crucial artists who
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For Matthew Teitelbaum,
Director of the AGO –
“Cahén had the potential,
had he lived longer and continued
to paint, to rank with Borduas
and Riopelle” |
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Photo Credit:
Maclean's – JAMES LABOUNTY
BRINGING BACK OSCAR
The Painter's son,
writes KATHERINE MACKLEM,
won't let Canada forget Oscar Cahén |
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 ISSUE
NO. 91
Oscar Cahén: In Search
of Lost Fame
by Gary Michael Dault
Publisher: Arts Manitoba Publications Inc.
© Copyright 2004
www.bordercrossingsmag.com
ISSN 0831-2559
Editor: Meeka Walsh
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© The Cahén
Archives™
Photograph by Page Toles, Toronto
“ ... a great many – no, I’ll go as far as to
say
most of Oscar Cahen’s paintings -
and his exciting drawings too –
can still make you feel as if
the top of your head is missing.”
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Canada Trust
Vancouver International
Jazz Festival 2004 Choose Cahén Artwork
"We needed a creative vehicle to reflect the exuberance
and high energy of this year's Festival"
Robert L. Kerr, Executive Director,
Coastal Jazz and Blues Society
www.coastaljazz.ca |
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Untitled – Percussion Series
Casein, watercolour & resist on Hi-Art illustration
paper
36” x 18” 76.2cm x 45.7cm
“Like the creative jazz artist, this untitled
creation
speaks volumes. Its colours are warm and inviting.
The composition is loose yet structured.
Its effect is arresting and, like the jazz artist,
creates a mesmerizing ambiance.” |
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National Gallery of Canada
Loan Agreement
"On behalf of the National Gallery of Canada, I
would like to thank you for so graciously agreeing
to extend the loan of The Warrior by Oscar Cahén
presently on view at the National Gallery of Canada."
Pierre Théberge, Director,
National Gallery of Canada |
Registered
Trademark of the NGC
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The Warrior
oil on canvas
79.4” x 102.6” 203.5 cm x 263.2 cm
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Q1/2004
Art Shock in Toronto
Painters Eleven: The Shock of the New
Abstract art, meet Toronto the Good
by Graham Broad
The Beaver, Canada’s History Magazine
Vol. 84:1
Publisher: Canada’s National History Society
ISSN: 0005-7517
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Growing
Form
oil on canvas
1953
Royal Bank of Canada Corporate Art Collection
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“Had he lived, Oscar
Cahen might be remembered as the greatest of all
Canadian artists. A gifted illustrator, he also
produced some of the group’s most profound works,
remarkable for their freedom of movement and striking
colours. He remained the artistic center of gravity
in Painters Eleven even after his death in a car
accident in 1956.”
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“In 1953 Toronto seemed
the unlikeliest place for such an exhibition. Visitors
found the city dour and churchy. Sidewalk cafes
were prohibited, and it was illegal to sell tobacco
on Sundays.
... A gloomy 1950 article in Canadian Art concluded
"There is something rotten in the state of Toronto
art, and it is of the dead rot kind", or as the
artist Graham Coughtry put it "every damn tree in
the country has been painted.”
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Celebrating Canadian artist Oscar Cahén
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