Vendu pour : 22 500 $

PROVENANCE
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
Private Collection, Vancouver

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Guy Robert, Pellan: Sa vie et son oeuvre / His Life and His Art, 1963, page 56

One of Quebec’s great artists, Alfred Pellan had a unique style. His work was influenced by the period of time he spent in Paris between the years 1926 and 1940, when he was a part of that city’s dizzyingly innovative art milieu. Here he was dazzled by the work of such artists as Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Vincent van Gogh. Pellan explored many directions in his work, but was particularly affected by Cubism and Surrealism, although he refused to be affiliated with any particular school of art. As he stated, “The pictorial approach is essentially free. Painting is based on emotion and the way in which it tends to reveal itself depends upon the unpredictable ways of plastic and poetic invention.” Pellan was known for his intense, vibrating palette, vivaciously exemplified by Still Life on Red Background. He draws the profusion of flowers with abandon – richly hued forms explode outward in every direction, propelled forward by the flat space of the fiery colour-field backdrop. Still Life on Red Background expresses the essence of Pellan’s passionate and free nature.

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