AANFM AUTO CAS LP QMG
1916 - 2014
Canadian
Vibration vert-rouge
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1963 and on verso inscribed "Musée d'art contemporain, Cité du Havre, Montréal" and "4500 F" and stamped with a customs stamp
28 1/2 x 36 in, 72.4 x 91.4 cm
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD
Sold for: $31,250
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by a Private Collector, Montreal, 1970
Private Collection, Montreal
LITERATURE
Fernand Leduc in Rea Montbizon, “On Gallery Avenue,” Montreal Gazette, October 2, 1965, page 22
Bernard Teyssedre, Fernand Leduc, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, 1971, listed, unpaginated
EXHIBITED
Musée du Québec, Quebec City, Fernand Leduc, March 9 - April 4, 1966
Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Fernand Leduc, April 14 - May 8, 1966
Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Rétrospective Fernand Leduc, December 9, 1970 - January 17, 1971, catalogue #70
What is essential is to arrive at the greatest intensity with the simplest means. I have to look for the most intense colour to achieve the most intense response and create the most dynamic results…Shape and colour have to interact in such a way that both contribute equally to the result of dynamisme.
—Fernand Leduc, Montreal Gazette, 1965
Vibration vert-rouge is the embodiment of Fernand Leduc’s thoughts quoted above. In this minimalist composition typical of his 1960s hard-edge works, he created a dynamic and vibrating painting. He organized intricate organic shapes of intensely saturated red, maroon and dark green, over which zigzag calligraphic red, green and blue lines. Leduc’s acute understanding of chromatic relations and tensions is on full display in the sleek surface of this canvas.
Leduc was an artist of many revolutions. He was one of the 16 signatories of the Refus global manifesto, and he adopted the Automatist gestural approach to painting early in his career. Then, in 1955 and throughout the 1960s, he moved towards geometric, hard-edge abstraction similar to the work of the Plasticiens. In 1970, he started working on a series titled Microchromies, consisting of monochromatic paintings with extremely subtle tonal variations. Over the course of his career, Leduc streamlined his visual language to focus on colour, shape and light, ultimately achieving the “greatest intensity with the simplest means.” Vibration vert-rouge is a stunning example of the artist’s unique approach to hard-edge abstraction.
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD
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