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LOT 027

AANFM ARCA OC QMG
1928 - 2021
Canadien

Sans titre
huile sur toile
signé et daté
25 x 29 po, 63.5 x 73.7 cm

Estimation : 30 000 $ - 40 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 133 250 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Acquired by the present Private Collection, Montreal, circa 1961


Rita Letendre was introduced to Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatists during her studies at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. They made a huge impact on her practice, as her interest in creative exploration was much more in tune with their expressive and intuitive approach to art than the traditional methods taught at l’École. She eventually left the school and went on to show her works alongside the Automatists in pivotal exhibitions such as La matière chante in 1954 and Espace 55 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. From then on, she dedicated herself entirely to painting and exploring the possibilities of abstraction.

Letendre’s works from the early 1960s are highly indebted to the Automatists’ revolutionary and expressive approach to abstraction - they are spirited and intense, as is the stunning Sans titre. In this compelling oil on canvas, Letendre skilfully arranges thick slabs of colour with her palette knife, building a complex composition of black, white, grey, cobalt, sage and touches of crimson. Her brushwork here is remarkably unrestrained; it showcases the full range and quality of her gestures, while revealing the materiality of her medium.


Estimation : 30 000 $ - 40 000 $ CAD

Tous les prix affichés sont en dollars canadiens


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