John Meredith
John Meredith was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, John Meredith's estimated art value is C$40,000 (*)
John Meredith's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$10,000 - C$250,000, or even much higher.
ArtValue.ca has 71 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$10,000 to C$250,000.
Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes
In an insightful 1972 essay, William Withrow stated: "Meredith paints from his viscera, not from his head." Most other curators and critics have agreed over the years that John Meredith painted instinctively rather than with an intellectual or theoretical bent. Despite the encouragement of great teachers like Jock Macdonald and Meredith's admiration for the work of the Automatists, especially Paul-Émile Borduas, he remained true to his own visual language. Blue on Violet very clearly reflects how strongly Meredith's paintings are anchored in his drawings. Here we see how beautifully the artist could transform his small paper notations into larger images, in the feathered edges of the blue line born in the drawn impressions of wet India ink on paper. Although many of his paintings from this period feature rich primary reds and yellows, Meredith could confine his palette to this simple but original range of poetic, dreamy hues. The artist, a man of few words, wrote, "Art should always be a mystery. It isn't possible to totally explain any work of art, anyways, since it is this mysterious quality which makes art so beautiful."