PROVENANCE
Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Ontario, 1968

EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Windsor, R.L. Bloore - Sixteen Years: 1958 - 1974, traveling to the London Art Gallery; the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal; the Winnipeg Art Gallery; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, February - November 1975, catalogue #35

Ronald Bloore’s signature white-on-white paintings began in 1963, after his travels to Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Spain. By that time, Bloore had attained considerable success as a founding member of the Regina Five, as director of the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery at Regina College and as an exhibiting artist at the Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil. The National Gallery of Canada had purchased one of his works, and in 1962 Dorothy Cameron’s Here and Now Gallery in Toronto hosted his first solo exhibition. Though Bloore’s distinctive paintings were carefully thought out prior to execution and he attempted to complete the works as he envisioned them without changing anything, the preparatory drawings and sketches were created in a quick and automatic fashion. To complete a painting, Bloore transferred his sketches via grid to his board support, and he repeatedly built up and sanded down layers of paint applied in varying lines, geometric shapes or motifs. This large-scale diptych, showcasing shallow reliefs of square and triangular shapes, is a fine example from Bloore’s impressive career.

Each panel of this diptych measures 96 x 38 inches.

All prices are in Canadian Dollars