About the Artist | (1929-2017, Canadian) Jim Ritchie, a Canadian sculptor had several exhibitions in his native Montréal before settling in the small town of Vence, in Provence. During a period of thirty years, he lived and worked in the Villa Alexandrine, his studio in the tower and the stone carving in the garden behind the building. After living in the center of Vence for more than thirty years, in 1997, he and his son Paul found an abandoned Italian style Mas, or farmhouse, just outside the village. Ritchie then went about rebuilding the Mas de L’Ormée, while continuing to sculpt and travel to Pietrasanta several times a year. After three exhibitions in London in the sixties, he showed at Waddington Galleries in Montreal during the seventies. He was then represented by Adelson Galleries in New York starting in 1980 where he had two one-man shows. During the next twenty years, Warren Adelson arranged exhibitions of his work in Boston, Los Angeles and the Miami Art Fair. Coe Kerr Gallery staged a solo exhibition for Ritchie in 1988 as did the Feingarten Galleries in Los Angeles in 1989 and the Pucker Gallery in Boston in 1992. Public collections hosting Ritchie's sculpture number eighteen located in three different countries. |
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Culture | Canadian |
Style | Stylization |
Medium | Cast bronze |
Edition | 2/8 |
Size | 4 1/8" height X 8 1/2" length X 3 1/4" maximum width (bronze), |
Base | Black granite - triangular shaped |
Base size | 3/4" height X 9 1/2" length X 5 3/4" maximum width |
Signed | "Ritchie 2/8" |
Date of creation | 1992 |
Condition | Excellent |
Provenance | P Lar |