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PROVENANCE
Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal

In 1958, Léon Bellefleur returned to France, where he had been several times since 1954. While there, he explored in depth his long-held interest in the work of the Surrealists and the creative subconscious as a source of inspiration. He was also particularly interested in the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, whose work was heavily influenced by music, and who resonated with Bellefleur because of his ideas on spiritualism in art. Spain’s Surrealist Joan Miró was also a source of inspiration. Bellefleur endeavoured in his work at this time to respond to the creative dictates of the subconscious, and to search for the completely spontaneous. His work is automatic painting, wherein he approached the canvas without any preconceived idea as to what he would paint, simply responding to his subconscious. He subscribed to the Surrealist theory on objective accidents, and believed that these accidents, which happened when painting in this unplanned manner, would shape the composition and define the work. He also embraced graphic automatism, a type of free-flowing drawing, wherein he allowed his subconscious to guide his hand.

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