Abstract
61 cms x 91.4 cms (24 ins x 36 ins)
On verso signed, dated july / aug. 1968 and inscribed "j17/68/xii"
made in 1968
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "May Live Auction 2016, Vancouver Live auction" held on Wed, May 25, 2016.
Lot 072
Lot 072
Estimate: CAD $8,000 - $12,000
Realised: CAD $14,160
Realised: CAD $14,160
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, USA
Literature:
David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary Canadian Art, 1983, page 130
Notes:
Ronald Bloore was a pivotal member of the Regina Five. By the time he was appointed director of the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery at Regina College in 1958, he had studied in Toronto, New York, St. Louis and London, and his visual language as a practising artist was already highly developed. As David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff wrote: "The resolution apparent in Bloore's work between his approach to the activity of painting and the results achieved, was an important example to the artists around him." Indeed, when Bloore organized the exhibition Five Painters from Regina in 1961, his distinctive style and approach was evident: executed using a limited colour palette dominated by white, and featuring imagery composed of carved ridges and low-relief symbols, his paintings were conceived in his mind as finished works and then brought to life with few changes. At a time when abstract painting in Canada was dominated by gesture, expressionism and intuition, Bloore's commitment to his methodical practice is remarkable. Abstract, from 1968, is an excellent example of the balance he achieved between precision and his painterly surfaces.
Private Collection, USA
Literature:
David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary Canadian Art, 1983, page 130
Notes:
Ronald Bloore was a pivotal member of the Regina Five. By the time he was appointed director of the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery at Regina College in 1958, he had studied in Toronto, New York, St. Louis and London, and his visual language as a practising artist was already highly developed. As David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff wrote: "The resolution apparent in Bloore's work between his approach to the activity of painting and the results achieved, was an important example to the artists around him." Indeed, when Bloore organized the exhibition Five Painters from Regina in 1961, his distinctive style and approach was evident: executed using a limited colour palette dominated by white, and featuring imagery composed of carved ridges and low-relief symbols, his paintings were conceived in his mind as finished works and then brought to life with few changes. At a time when abstract painting in Canada was dominated by gesture, expressionism and intuition, Bloore's commitment to his methodical practice is remarkable. Abstract, from 1968, is an excellent example of the balance he achieved between precision and his painterly surfaces.
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