Sold for: $15,210

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist
By descent to the Private Collection, Montreal
Sold sale of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 15, 2013, lot 37
Private Collection, Vancouver

Of all of the Automatists, Marcelle Ferron remained truest in her style to the original approach of the group throughout her career. She was deeply interested in colour, and the gestural swathing-on of paint - characteristic of the Automatists - was something she explored in remarkable depth. She worked with a long palette knife, blending her carefully selected colours on the surface of her works in a rhythmic, free-flowing manner. She continued to grind and mix her colours herself, despite the readily available and less expensive options available to her in Paris, where she spent much of her career. This intense interest in colour no doubt affected the way she blended her paints on the surface of her canvases, with an almost innate attention to bringing out all of their subtle hidden hues. Additionally, she often set her compositions against backgrounds of black or white, the latter being the case with Sans titre, and the creamy white she uses here is a delicious ground from which her other luminous colours emerge.

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