Sold for: $7,000

PROVENANCE
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 25, 2004, lot 200
Private Collection, Ontario

LITERATURE
Terence Heath, Ivan Eyre: Personal Mythologies, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1988, reproduced page 79
George Woodcock, Ivan Eyre, 1981, page 67

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ivan Eyre: Personal Mythologies, September 29 - November 20, 1988, traveling to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, December 18, 1988 - February 26, 1989, catalogue #51

Ivan Eyre’s interest in the human figure most likely began in his last year of high school in Winnipeg, when he studied with Ernest Lindner and drew from live models. In 1971 Eyre was painting intensely in his Winnipeg studio, “working out individual solutions for the human figure.” The same year, in an interview with Barry Lord for Artscanada, they discussed the influence of other artists on Eyre’s work, referring to Francis Bacon, with his twisting and constraining of the figure, and Pablo Picasso’s distortions of the figure. It is also possible that there is an American Pop Art influence in this work – such as Tom Wesselman and his brightly coloured nudes. Certainly, this was a time when the human figure had great importance in his work, and Eyre presents this figure in a hard-edged, highly stylized configuration against flat colour fields. Eyre rivets the viewer’s attention to this dreamy, erotic figure perched on the edge of space.

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