WILLIAM KURELEK

Titled "First Snowfall", also known as "Catching Snowflakes, First Snowfall", pencil signed to the lower right margin, lithograph in colours circa 1974 editioned 53/300, sight 36.2 x 23.2cm (14 1/4 x 9 1/8in); William Kurelek, Canadian, 1927-1977; the son of Ukrainian farmers, Kurelek grew up during the Great Depression on a grain farm in Alberta; he moved to England in his mid-twenties, returning to Canada in 1959 and held his first exhibition at the Isaac's Gallery in 1960