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VENTE EN LIGNE
Art canadien important
4 au 25 novembre 2021

novembre 04 - novembre 25, 2021

DÉTAILS DU LOT
Cette séance est fermée aux enchères.
Enchère actuelle: 30 000 $ CAD
Historique des enchères
# de palette Date Prix

21271 25 nov. 2021 | 12 : 33 : 04 30 000 $

La liste de l'historique des enchères a été mise à jour le: mardi, 19 mars 2024 | 01h 09m 43s

LOT 0213

AANFM AUTO CAS QMG RCA SAAVQ SAPQ
1924 - 2001
Canadien

Sans titre
huile sur toile
signé et daté et au verso signé
18 x 24 po, 45.7 x 61 cm

Estimation : 30 000 $ - 50 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : $37,250

Exposition à : Heffel Montréal

PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal


This work by Marcelle Ferron is an outstanding example of her early practice, produced just a year after being introduced to Paul-Émile Borduas and joined the Automatists, before she became a signatory of the Refus global manifesto in 1948. Having just left Quebec City’s École des beaux-arts, disillusioned with its conservatism, she found a ready home in the new language of abstraction that was being developed.

The influence of Borduas is immediately felt here: dense tessellations of pigment are applied using a palette knife in a close-knit flurry of smeared strokes. However, it is Ferron’s skillful use of colour that defines the work, dominated by autumnal yellows, deep magentas, and mossy greens. The overall thrust is initially horizontal, perhaps suggesting a blur of movement; but a closer look reveals that the dense clutter of colour seems to emerge from the background rather than float atop it, forming a rolling burst of energy that swells outwards from the center of the canvas. Glaring white and the dimmed black tones glint off the facets of colour, serving to further animate and illuminate the body of the painting. This play of light and colour suggests the interest in stained glass that she would develop in the following years while she was living in Paris. Ferron was evidently fond of the work, as it remained in the artist’s personal collection, hanging in the living room of her Outremont residence after her return to Montreal.

This painting appears in the NFB documentary Marcelle Ferron by Monique Crouillère, 1989, minutes 4:40 - 4:50 and 6:42 - 6:47

https://www.nfb.ca/film/ferron_marcelle/.


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