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Post-War & Contemporary Art
1st session

March 05 - March 26, 2026

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This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $75,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

20212 26-Mar-2026 10:54:38 AM $75,000 AutoBid

973670 26-Mar-2026 10:54:38 AM $70,000

20212 25-Mar-2026 03:36:42 PM $65,000 AutoBid

951111 20-Mar-2026 01:52:26 PM $60,000

The bidding history list updated on: Sunday, June 14, 2026 10:10:20

LOT 033

AANFM LP QMG RCA
1932 -
Canadian

Phthalo Cadmium
acrylic on canvas (diptych)
on verso signed, titled, dated 1974 and stamped with the artist's stamp
36 x 36 in, 91.4 x 91.4 cm

Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000 CAD

Sold for: $91,250

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PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Montreal then Vancouver, 1975


Beginning in 1964, Claude Tousignant began to make his “target” paintings, where the rectangular picture plane was turned in on itself, into a series of concentric circles. The following years saw Tousignant play with the structural potential of these forms, producing a series of chromatically linked bands of colour in varying forms, delivered in pulsating, undulating rhythms. Between 1972 and 1977, he produced a series of diptychs employing just two or three bands of colour. These works moved away from the bright fluorescent tones of his earlier works to a reduced palette of more mineral tones. The change was reflected directly in the works’ titles, such as here in Phthalo Cadmium, referring to their source pigments. This reductive shift points to a distillation of colour to its purest, elemental base. Arranged in dialogue with each other, the paired canvases from this period demonstrate Tousignant’s foregrounding of a relational experience of complementary colour: here, for instance, the cool, expansive greens are in dialogue with the warm, thrumming reds. In perceiving the pair in tandem, the act of viewing becomes a sort of synthesis—a unified experience greater than its parts.

Please note: these works are unframed.


All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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