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LOT 050

BCSFA CGP CPE OC RCA
1919 - 2020
Canadien

Barkley Sound II
acrylique sur toile
signé et au verso signé, titré et daté
50 1/4 x 67 po, 127.6 x 170.2 cm

Estimation : 40 000 $ - 60 000 $ CAD

Exposition à : Heffel Vancouver

PROVENANCE
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Private Collection, Toronto

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Ian M. Thom and Andrew Hunter, Gordon Smith, The Act of Painting, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1997, page 49


There was a period in the late 1980s when Gordon Smith took a number of trips into the British Columbia wilderness, and these resulted in a series of works of abstraction based on the deep forest and shoreline. In 1987, he traveled to Barkley Sound, south of Ucluelet and north of Bamfield on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Drawing on his visual observations there, Smith takes us into a deep, mysterious space in which mosses, rocks, surging water and flashes of orange cedar wood merge together in a roiling, gestural mass. There is no horizon, and we are submersed in the physicality of both abstracted coastal elements and of paint itself. Brilliant flashes of colour emerge from deep brooding backgrounds, and Smith’s painterly, expressionist abilities are at their height. Ian Thom writes of these 1980s works, “The painting comes to completion through an intuitive process, through the expression in paint of the spirit of the rain forest and the artist.” In Barkley Sound II, Smith struck a fine balance between his expression of the essence of the West Coast and his modernist awareness of the properties of paint itself.


Estimation : 40 000 $ - 60 000 $ CAD

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