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Maxwell
Bennett Bates
Canadian O.S.A., S.C.A., P.D.C.C. [1932-2003]
COCK AND HEN; 1955
Colour lithograph on paper; Ed. #10/14
12 3/4 x 16 ins
Signed & titled
Notes.
Sold @ $ 1,600
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Maxwell
Bennett Bates
Canadian A.S.A., C.G.P., C.S.P.W.C., R.C.A. [1906-1980]
GLOUCESTER ROAD, LONDON
Oil on board
24 x 30 ins.
Sold @ $ 8,500
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Bates was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1906. He
studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology in
Calgary under Lars Haukness. By the end of the
twenties he and his friend Roy Stevenson were, according
to R. L. Bloore "the most advanced painters in
Western Canada." He spent the years 1931-1939
in London, exhibiting regularly with the Twenties
Group. As a member of the British Expeditionary
Force sent to France in 1940 he was captured by the
Germans and was interned in a prison camp from
1940-1945. Returning to Calgary in 1946 he worked
as an architect before coming to Victoria, B.C., in
1961. His work has been exhibited in London, Paris,
Tokyo, Mexico City, Manchester, Auckland, Philadelphia
and all major Canadian cities. Retrospective
exhibitions of his work were held in Regina and Edmonton
(1960-61), Victoria (1966), Winnipeg (1968) and
Vancouver (1973). He has received many awards for his
painting and is a Fellow of the International Institute
of Arts and Letters and a member of the Royal Canadian
Academy. He received an Honorary Doctorate from
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