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de Niverville was born 1933 in Andover, England where his father,an Air
Vice-Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Forces, was stationed. He came to
Canada with his parents in 1934, first settling in Montreal, then in 1953
in Ottawa. Louis received considerable encouragement from his brother Georges,
a trained artist, to pursue a career in art. He specialized in illustrations,
working for Mayfair magazine, and the CBC graphics department besides exploring
venues for his own work. He was interested in Symbolism and Surrealism,
exhibiting in the 1970's paintings dealing with dreams and nightmares at
the Jerrold Morris Gallery with Sol Littman. Even in his more "innocent"
paintings of the 1960's, viewers often perceived a "vague element of threat,"
which marks the work of many Surrealist artists such as Max Ernst or Salvador
Dali. Louis de Niverville acknowledged wide-ranging influences on his work,
from the American cartoonists Saul Steinberg and James Thurber to the French
painters Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard. His irst solo show was at the
Gallery of Contemporary Art (1957, 1959), followed by exhibitions at the
Here and Now Gallery in Toronto (1959, 1967) and elsewhere. His paintings
were included in the 4th, 5th, and 6th Biennial Exhibitions of Canadian
Painting (1961, 1963, and 1965). His works are part of many Canadian and
international private and public collections. Louis de Niverville lives
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