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Current bid: $15,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

917825 30-Mar-2023 04:58:56 PM $15,000

872536 30-Mar-2023 04:58:34 PM $14,000

917825 30-Mar-2023 04:08:49 PM $13,000

917752 30-Mar-2023 03:40:49 PM $12,000

2328 30-Mar-2023 02:45:43 PM $11,000

30642 30-Mar-2023 02:27:06 PM $10,000

872512 30-Mar-2023 02:24:22 PM $9,500

2328 28-Mar-2023 05:30:49 PM $9,000

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, October 31, 2024 07:15:44

LOT 419

AANFM ARCA OC QMG
1928 - 2021
Canadian

Saugeen
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated 1976 and on verso signed, titled and on the gallery label and dated
34 x 48 in, 86.4 x 121.9 cm

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD

Sold for: $18,750

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PROVENANCE
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Private Collection, UK
Contemporary & Post-War Art, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, April 17, 2019, lot 145
Private Collection, Toronto


Born of Abenaki and Québécois parents, Rita Letendre was introduced to Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatists during her studies at l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Their expressive and intuitive approach to art inspired Letendre, who was interested in creative exploration rather than the traditional methods taught at l’École. Later, her works were shown alongside the Automatists in pivotal exhibitions such as La matière chante in 1954 and Espace 1955, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. From then on, she dedicated herself entirely to painting and to the possibilities of abstraction.

In the late 1960s through the 1970s, Letendre moved away from Automatist gesture and expression to a hard-edge and geometric abstraction. During that period, she developed what became known as her flèches (arrows). Strong diagonal lines activate the surface of her works, creating a dynamic impression of movement.

Please note: this work is unframed.


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