PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Estate, Montreal

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Sandra Paikowsky, Goodridge Roberts, 1904 - 1974, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1998, a similar circa 1950 oil entitled Still Life, in the collection of the Edmonton Art Gallery, reproduced page 149, catalogue #76

Goodridge Roberts’s works in still life have a simple, homespun quality to them that upstages their carefully planned compositions and exacting considerations of palette. While his tableaux often consist of simple objects, their careful arrangement and harmony of type is not accidental. Here, an armful of apples seems to have been tumbled onto the table near an earthenware container filled with a loose bouquet of flowers. A book, so often a part of a Roberts still life, lies nearby. Opposite the book, a plate holding grapes, onto which one apple has rolled, echoes both the colour and pattern of the tablecloth and the colour of the book. A small, roughly made pitcher adds a feeling of rusticity to the scene, which is furthered by the background wall - as textured and subtly varied in colour as an ancient plastered surface. As a still life, this is a very successful work. A fully realized study for it painted in 1950, titled Still Life, is in the collection of the Edmonton Art Gallery.

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