Sold for: $26,325

PROVENANCE
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Jack Bush: Works on Paper, New York Studio School, 2009, essay by Karen Wilkin, “Jack Bush on Paper: A Selection”, link, accessed February 5, 2013

Jack Bush’s early training and long experience as a graphic designer made it natural and most comfortable for him to work out many of his ideas on paper and on a smaller scale than his powerful, large canvases. Bush’s superb handling of watercolour and gouache allowed him the freedom to experiment with and develop the abstract motifs that brought him both national and international attention as a significant abstract artist. One notable experiment, begun around 1971, was Bush’s use of three distinct sections of ground colour, most evident in Triple with Blue, Green, Yellow. As Karen Wilkin states in her essay for the New York exhibition, Jack Bush on Paper: A Selection, Bush’s works on paper were not studies for larger images but “independent, accomplished works of art in their own right” and that he “often seems particularly inventive and especially uninhibited on paper.” As with other fine paintings of this period, Triple with Blue, Green, Yellow evinces not only the joy and exuberance of the artist’s emotions but the wit and inventiveness of his best works.

This work will be included in Sarah Stanners’s forthcoming Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné.

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