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PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Par filiation dans une collection privée, Ontario
Art canadien d’après-guerre (de 1945 aux années 1970), Maison de vente aux enchères Heffel, 29 septembre 2007, lot 31
Collection privée, Toronto

In 1952, Jock Macdonald’s work hung in the Canadian Abstract Exhibition, a foundational non-objective painting exhibition organized by Alexandra Luke at Adelaide House in Oshawa, touring to Toronto’s Hart House the following year. In 1954, the Abstract Expressionist group Painters Eleven, of which Macdonald and Luke were key members, held its first gallery exhibition at Toronto’s Roberts Gallery at 641 Yonge Street. The show was arranged by fellow Painters Eleven member Jack Bush, whose dealer was a young Jack Wildridge, then at the beginning of his impressive career as the gallery’s director. The exhibition led to a similar business relationship between MacDonald and Wildridge, and by 1960, preparations for a major solo exhibition were under way. Plans were sidetracked, however, when Macdonald died suddenly and unexpectedly in December of that year. His planed one-artist show transformed into a major memorial exhibition held in 1962 comprised of over 80 works, including this important and intimate oil. An emblematic example from his final group of paintings, within a carefully modulated palette it achieves a profound synthesis of the spiritual and the physical.

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