Lot 23
Harold Klunder
Lot 23 Details
Harold Klunder
UNTITLED, 2012
watercolour on archival paper, framed
10 x 14 in — 25.4 x 35.6 cm
Estimate $1,050-$1,400
Sold For:
$1,000
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Provenance:
Courtesy of the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
Note:
Dutch Canadian artist Harold Klunder (b. 1943) is widely considered one of Canada’s most important living painters. He has exhibited constantly for more than three decades since his first solo show in 1976 at Sable-Castelli Gallery in Toronto. In his paintings, Klunder employs a refined vocabulary of forms that are uniquely his own. Together they suggest ideas of vitality and transformation, of biology and duration, of identities that are mutable, and of the still-unfolding history of painting itself. Klunder works on single paintings for years at a time, and in so doing they become invested with a palpable sense of lived experience—their surfaces a visceral record of his quest to give shape to consciousness itself. His works on paper, like this one for C Magazine, demonstrate his aptitude for colour and dynamic, primordial energy.