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PROVENANCE
By descent to the present Private Collection, USA

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, 2010, pages 159 and 165

Stormy and dramatic, Harold Town was a colourful figure in Toronto’s emerging abstractionist movement. Iris Nowell wrote, “He devoted his entire life to being remembered by creating a spectacular body of art - and a persona to match.” A formative member of the group Painters Eleven, Town exploded onto the Toronto scene in the 1950s. From a turning point in 1950 when his paintings were shown at the Art Gallery of Toronto, his work began to gather acclaim, and in 1956 he was invited by the National Gallery to represent Canada with his prints at the twenty-eighth Venice Biennale. A review in Canadian Art magazine described his work as “majestic, grandiloquent, heroic, romantic, large in gesture and intent.” Painted in 1953, the same year as the formation of Painters Eleven, Untitled fascinates the eye with its layers of knifed, brushed and scrubbed paint, creating a rich, tapestry-like surface in which lines, squares and textures vibrate and jostle to achieve equilibrium.

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