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LOT 008

AANFM ARCA OC QMG
1928 - 2021
Canadien

Menace
huile sur toile
signé et daté et au verso signé, titré, daté et inscrit
25 1/2 x 32 po, 64.8 x 81.3 cm

Estimation : 30 000 $ - 50 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 37 250 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Dorothy Cameron Gallery Ltd., Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik, Rita Letendre: Fire & Light, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2017, pages 13 and 14


Rita Letendre is of Abenaki, Mohawk and Québécois heritage, and she studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. She was influenced by Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatists, who expressed intuition and emotion through the act of painting. She stated: “I felt that Borduas and the Automatistes were creating a brand-new world, and I was fascinated by the freedom of thought and action they showed. I wanted to be a great painter…to make my contribution. It also seemed I had something to say, an overpowering rage that nothing could hold back.” Letendre was committed to abstraction, having, as she said, “discovered that the soul of a painting was not in the object represented but in the way it transmitted a sort of internalized emotion.”

During the 1960s, Letendre created gestural, emotional works like Menace, which embodied the plastic qualities of paint - texture, forms, lines and their relationship within the painting. Colour here is rich and, as was typical of this time, electric hues are contrasted with a black colour field. The paint, applied with bold knifework, builds a textural surface in which layers of paint breathe through each other. Lyrical and whirling with dynamism, Menace is a powerful work from Letendre’s early 1960s period.


Estimation : 30 000 $ - 50 000 $ CAD

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