Sold for: $40,250

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by a Private Collection, Regina
By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Charles Comfort and Richard Simmins, Five Painters from Regina: Bloore, Godwin, Lochhead, McKay, Morton, National Gallery of Canada, 1961, catalogue #9, reproduced, unpaginated

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Five Painters from Regina: Bloore, Godwin, Lochhead, McKay, Morton, November 1 - December 26, 1961, traveling in Canada December 7, 1962 - May 30, 1963, catalogue #9
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Ted Godwin, September 30 - October 17, 1965, catalogue #2
Norman Mackenzie Art Galley, Regina, Godwin/Nugent, January 19 - February 18, 1973

Richard B. Simmins writes in the introductory essay to the National Gallery of Canada catalogue:

Godwin is painting his way quickly to artistic maturity. In discussing his paintings he speaks of “organic accidents.” This implies that while the artist controls the growth of a painting, or as he takes part in its creative transmutation, certain quite unforeseen relationships seem to take place automatically as if by accident. The very fact that the artist wills to amend, change or destroy these relationships is positive and thus essentially negates those mysterious elements called chance or accident. Modern poetry has evidently had a profound effect on Godwin’s outlook, and his real concern is to create abstract, poetic paintings in which colour—quite independent and unaided by any remote connection to form—becomes a kind of vibrant suspension. Motion is constant, the eye finds nothing static, unmoving, upon which to rest. His soft juxtaposition of colour automatically creates space—space which cannot be measured with a slide rule but which is observable and coherent.”

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