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JEAN-PHILIPPE DALLAIRESEBASTIANOoil on boardsigned and titled; also signed, titled (multiple times in various ways) and dated 1953 on the reverse 24 ins x 20 ins; 61 cms x 50.8 cms Provenance:Dominion Gallery, MontrealWaddington Gorce, MontrealGalerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., MontrealPrivate Collection, MontrealLiterature:Guy Robert, Dallaire ou l'oeil panique, Éditions France-Amérique, Montreal, 1980, page 111 and pages 110 for Défroqués and 245 for L'Annonciation.Note:From 1952-1955, the period during which this work was executed, Dallaire's work was being created "dans un climat mental d'incertitudes, de frustration et d'angoisse." Such uncertainty may have led Dallaire to identify with the Christian martyr, St. Sebastian, who had been violently attacked for his beliefs not once, (the first time, most famously, with arrows) but twice (with cudgels this time, which would be the instrument of his martyrdom). Despite the threat to Sebastian's health that the arrows presented, he, like Dallaire, would recover from the assault.   Sebastian has been a favourite subject of painters and sculptors for centuries, from early renaissance masters to Damien Hirst. Not only does this event provide artists with material for high, if violent, drama, but artists also seem to associate with the saint's poise under extreme circumstance, and his miraculous ability to overcome adversity. Dallaire undertook other works with religious themes during this period including L'Annonciation of 1952-53 and Défroqués of 1953-54.This painting is inscribed "Narbonne" on the reverse. While the people of Narbonne, a small village in the south of France near the Spanish border, lay claim to their town being the site of Sebastian's maternal home, little is recorded about his early life. Dallaire was clearly aware of the local legend and, as such, recorded the information on his painting.  Estimate: $50,000–60,000