Lot 16
LÉON BELLEFLEUR
Provenance:
Private Collection, Montreal
Literature:
Guy Robert, Bellefleur, The Fervour of the Quest, Montreal, 1988, pages 51 and 97.
Note:
In the early 1960s, Bellefleur lived in Paris and allied himself with André Breton and Surrealism. He travelled home to Montreal for a few months each year until finally settling back in Canada in 1965.
Unlike many artists, Bellefleur chose not to leave his abstracts untitled but christened them after they were painted, or occasionally as he approached their completion. His inspiration was prompted by associations he found within the composition. He sought both to enrich the viewer's experience and "to pull them (the paintings) out of anonymity". While we are uncertain whether Rosédo is Person, Place or Thing, it is possible that it refers to Spanish rosé wine, "Rosado".