CAS CGP CSGA CSPWC EGP OC OSA PY RCA
1904 - 1974
Canadian
Still Life
oil on board
signed and on verso titled, dated circa 1956 on the gallery label and inscribed "2728"
12 x 16 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD
Sold for: $12,870
Preview at: Heffel Vancouver
PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario
LITERATURE
Colin S. MacDonald, A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume 7, 1990, page 2170
EXHIBITED
The Women's Committee of The Art Gallery of Toronto, Sale of Canadian Art
Goodridge Roberts’s work in still life is a steady thread throughout his career. Roberts was also an accomplished poet - a talent that ran in his family; his uncle Sir Charles G.D. Roberts was a poet, and Bliss Carman was his cousin. Comparisons between poetry and painting are often made, and it is perhaps in the genre of still life that we have the closest alignment. Like poetry, a still life is composed of limited things that must harmonize and accent each other. A small blue and white jug can contrast with a clear glass, a velvety green cloth can offset a grey wall. The success of the outcome depends on brevity, balance and harmony – and in poetry, carefully selected words. In the still life work of Roberts, it is the placement and choice of each carefully selected object that gives them such consistent success.
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD
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