Sold for: $15,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art Inc., Vancouver
The Isman Collection, Vancouver, 1981
By descent to a Private Collection, Vancouver
Sold sale of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 17, 2011, lot 016
Private Collection, Calgary

LITERATURE
Rosalyn Porter, Toni Onley: Major Works from the Sixties, Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art Inc., 1981, reproduced and listed, unpaginated

EXHIBITED
Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art Inc., Vancouver, Toni Onley: Major Works from the Sixties, February 26 - March 14, 1981

Toni Onley’s long association with Kenneth Heffel was highlighted by an important 1981 exhibition held at his gallery on Granville Street. Toni Onley: Major Works from the Sixties was a significant show that focused on the productive early 1960s period of Onley’s career and included this engaging piece, Polar #28. The early sixties was a dynamic period in Onley’s career as he began with the Polar series of collages influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Dissatisfied with the direction of his paintings at the time, Onley began to rip them up and then proceeded to reassemble the torn pieces into collages. The resulting canvases were powerful mixtures of accidental and purposeful intentions, yet energetic and rhythmical in their composition. Such paintings were enthusiastically received, and a work from the series entitled Polar #1, 1961, resides in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern in London, England.

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