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Louis de Nieverville
LOUIS DE NIvERvILLE
Louis de Niverville was born in 1933 in Andover, England to Canadian parents. As a self-taught artist, de Niverville began painting and working in painted collage in 1965. He would continue to work in both mediums until 1981 when painted collage became his principal medium. The turning point in his work was in 1966-67 when he painted a mural for Expo Theatre in Montréal. Throughout his career de Niverville received multiple commissions including two murals for Toronto International Airport, 1963, one for the atrium of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1993, and one for the Toronto Transit Commission titled Morning Glory, 1978, located at the Spadina subway station.
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During his lifetime, de Niverville had two major museum retrospectives, both at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The first was in 1978 and featured 20 years of his paintings. The exhibition travelled to 13 Canadian museums including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The second retrospectives took place in 1997, and was solely composed of his collages. Louis de Niverville's work can be found in many public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
