Spring Tree
83.8 cms x 106.7 cms (33 ins x 42 ins)
On verso titled on the exhibition label
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 032
Lot 032
Estimate: CAD $25,000 - $35,000
Realised: CAD $23,600
Realised: CAD $23,600
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec
Exhibitions:
Canadian Group of Painters, Toronto, 1957
Notes:
It was his great friend Oscar Cahén who invited Walter Yarwood to join a meeting of the artists who had participated in the 1953 Abstracts at Home show at the Simpson's department store. At that meeting, Yarwood, Harold Town, Jock Macdonald and Hortense Gordon formed Painters Eleven, a group that came to define the early post-war period of Toronto-based abstract painters. This was a comfortable fit for Yarwood, who, like most of his peers, was earning his living as a graphic artist but strove to have his works more widely shown. Yarwood was soon included in many Painters Eleven exhibitions, including a 1956 Riverside Museum show in New York City. He became a regular exhibitor with the Canadian Group of Painters, showing works inspired by themes of gardens and organic growth. Spring Tree is one of those works, painted around the time of Yarwood's two-person exhibition with Ray Mead at Avrom Isaacs's Greenwich Gallery in 1957. His canvases from this period stand out for their distinctive palette of varied reds, blues and purples and his unabashed application of white pigments, as seen in our blossoming Spring Tree.
By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec
Exhibitions:
Canadian Group of Painters, Toronto, 1957
Notes:
It was his great friend Oscar Cahén who invited Walter Yarwood to join a meeting of the artists who had participated in the 1953 Abstracts at Home show at the Simpson's department store. At that meeting, Yarwood, Harold Town, Jock Macdonald and Hortense Gordon formed Painters Eleven, a group that came to define the early post-war period of Toronto-based abstract painters. This was a comfortable fit for Yarwood, who, like most of his peers, was earning his living as a graphic artist but strove to have his works more widely shown. Yarwood was soon included in many Painters Eleven exhibitions, including a 1956 Riverside Museum show in New York City. He became a regular exhibitor with the Canadian Group of Painters, showing works inspired by themes of gardens and organic growth. Spring Tree is one of those works, painted around the time of Yarwood's two-person exhibition with Ray Mead at Avrom Isaacs's Greenwich Gallery in 1957. His canvases from this period stand out for their distinctive palette of varied reds, blues and purples and his unabashed application of white pigments, as seen in our blossoming Spring Tree.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.