Sold for: $16,250

PROVENANCE
Galerie Daniel, Montreal
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Sales & Rental Gallery
Sotheby's, Toronto
Private Collection, California
Sold sale of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 27, 2015, lot 38
Private Collection, Toronto

Harold Town created his Snap paintings between 1972 and 1976, often working on several at once due to the long drying time of the heavily built up paint. To create these works, Town stretched a piece of string across his canvas, pulled it taut, and then loaded it with pigment. Next, he snapped the string against the canvas, transferring the paint to the surface in a thick, splattered line. As evidenced by Snap #40, shapes were often masked off with oil-resistant paper while paint lines were applied in one direction, and then the shapes themselves snapped in a different direction, or painted in later. Here, three small squares in varying combinations of blue, black and brown challenge their textured surroundings and create tension in the work with their rigid two-dimensionality. Town was a prolific artist and was well established by the time he painted Snap #40 in 1973. He had exhibited nationally and internationally, including in dozens of shows with his Painters Eleven comrades, and had represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1964.

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