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PROVENANCE
Estate of Mira Godard, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto

In 1975 Jean McEwen produced a book entitled Les îles réunies (The Reunited Islands), which was a suite of his poems and silkscreen prints, printed at Graff, centre de conception graphique in Montreal. He also did a series of paintings, including this lush, painterly work from the personal collection of Mira Godard, his dealer for many years. In 1962 she took over Galerie Agnès Lefort in Montreal, where she began to show McEwen’s work. Godard and McEwen had a close, mutually beneficial relationship; she mounted many exhibitions of his work in her Toronto gallery.

McEwen had a predilection for such poetic titles, which lent dimensions to his otherwise completely abstract paintings. Les îles réunies no. 10 has the fine qualities typical of his work – a sense of depth behind the primary surface plane, dripping in the surface, and an expressionist wielding of paint. Spatial dimensions are generated by the contrast between the layering of a cool, silvery cloud-like shape over glowing hot orange and red. Sumptuous of paint and evocative of mood, Les îles réunies no. 10 is an appealing work from this series.

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