Zephrus #2
134 cms x 177.2 cms (52.75 ins x 69.75 ins)
Signed and on verso signed, titled and dated 1967
made in 1967
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Post-War & Contemporary Art - Live Auction" held on Thu, Nov 24, 2022.
Lot 011
Lot 011
Estimate: CAD $30,000 - $50,000
Realised: CAD $157,250
Realised: CAD $157,250
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Family of the Artist
Notes:
Zephrus #2, after Zephyrus, god of the west wind and herald of spring in Greek mythology, is an apt title for this wonderful canvas by William Perehudoff. It contains in its composition and colour combinations a joyful freshness, and a lightness of touch that still retains an inherent strength. The playfully asymmetric forms might suggest a windmill, or even a child’s pinwheel, but aside from any potential interpretations, what remains unavoidable is the artist’s inquisitive, keen and buoyant belief in what he called "the optimism of colour."
Perehudoff was part of an emerging generation of abstractionists in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was influenced, as was his peer and contemporary Jack Bush, by New York critic Clement Greenberg. Perehudoff’s canvases from the 1960s are some of his rarest and most sought after; they capture the artist’s first, exhilarating engagement with the ideas and approaches that would guide the rest of his career.
Family of the Artist
Notes:
Zephrus #2, after Zephyrus, god of the west wind and herald of spring in Greek mythology, is an apt title for this wonderful canvas by William Perehudoff. It contains in its composition and colour combinations a joyful freshness, and a lightness of touch that still retains an inherent strength. The playfully asymmetric forms might suggest a windmill, or even a child’s pinwheel, but aside from any potential interpretations, what remains unavoidable is the artist’s inquisitive, keen and buoyant belief in what he called "the optimism of colour."
Perehudoff was part of an emerging generation of abstractionists in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was influenced, as was his peer and contemporary Jack Bush, by New York critic Clement Greenberg. Perehudoff’s canvases from the 1960s are some of his rarest and most sought after; they capture the artist’s first, exhilarating engagement with the ideas and approaches that would guide the rest of his career.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
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