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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
"One Gun Blackfoot from Cluny, Alberta"
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Born in Moscow, Russia, Nicola De Grandmaison became a Canadian painter of Indian portraits in pastel. His motto was: "Unless we appreciate the past, we will never have a future."
While serving as an officer in the Russian Army during World War I, he was captured by the Germans. He then studied art in Paris and at St. John's Wood in London before emigrating in 1923 to Canada.
When he did Indian portraits, he had the subjects sign the work. One of his portraits was (showing 500 of 6153 characters). |
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