Sold for: $18,750

PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 50 Years of Canadian Landscape Painting, 1988
Private Collection
Sold Sale of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art - Highlights, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 26, 2015, lot 75
Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Marc Mayer and Sarah Stanners, Jack Bush, National Gallery of Canada, 2014, page 15

Although dated 1953 in retrospect by the artist, this work was actually produced at an earlier date. This earlier date of 1945 is corroborated by its submission by the artist to the 1945 Canadian Group of Painters annual exhibition under title Late Autumn. The smaller oil sketch for this work, dated 1945, is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Marc Mayer's description of one of Jack Bush's styles as "perspectival distortion with increasingly expressionist angularity" is an apt one for this strong landscape. There is a jagged rhythm and coiled tension to the rolling land and folding layers of clouds, and the central grey-white square form hovers in the clouds like an abstracted motif. In Late Autumn / Small Red Hill, Bush has left behind the conventionality of his earlier work for a new and powerful expressionist interpretation of the landscape, which contains intimations of his movement towards abstraction.

The above essay was provided by Heffel. We thank Dr. Sarah Stanners for her assistance with researching this work.

This work will be included in Sarah Stanners's forthcoming Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné.

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