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PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario

Goodridge Roberts visited New York in 1926 to study at the Art Students League and would remain there for two years, taking advantage of every opportunity to see the art on display in the city’s museums and galleries. He was exposed to the vibrant colour of the Fauves, the reconfigured forms of Cubism and the shimmering light and colour of Impressionism. Into his own art, he took traits from several of these styles and refined them in his own personal manner. For his subjects, he preferred still life, the figure and landscape, and he borrowed from Henri Matisse’s colours and forms, translating them through the light, air and character of Canada. Roberts’s work has a quality of solemn strength unlike any other Canadian artist of his time. His palette is bold, and his forms are never overly delicate or insubstantial. In Sunlight on the Bay, we can see the uniqueness of Roberts’s brushwork; its rough manner deftly conveys a sense of the wind coming off the water.

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