Vendu pour : 23 400 $

PROVENANCE
Galerie du Siècle, Montreal
Private Collection, British Columbia

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Guy Robert, Bellefleur: The Fervour of the Quest, 1988, page 103

Through his association with Alfred Pellan in 1942, Léon Bellefleur was introduced to the Automatists, and through them he became interested in the work of the Surrealists. He was a signatory of the Prisme d’yeux manifesto, in which the group members declared their desire to be free of restrictions of time, place and ideology, and he was a part of their first exhibition in 1948. For a decade beginning in 1954, Bellefleur shuttled back and forth between Paris, Provence and Montreal. While in France, he continued to delve further into his interest in Surrealism and the creative unconscious as a source of inspiration. The life of the unconscious manifests in the striking Métamorphose II, in which Bellefleur wields his painting tools spontaneously, splashing, scraping and splattering paint, building up layers of dimensionality. As Guy Robert writes, Bellefleur’s paintings seem “agitated by a kind of inner wind, an impetuous breath that makes the spatula twist and the colours turn.” Taken literally, Bellefleur’s title implies change in form or an inner state of mind - the essence of freedom and possibility.

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