Lot 17
BARKER FAIRLEY, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Alberta
Literature:
Rebecca Sisler in Eye of the Intellect: Barker Fairley Portraits of his Colleagues, Toronto, 1987, page 3.
Note:
Rebecca Sisler, who once sat for the artist, states “When Barker Fairley stood at his easel, brush in hand, sitter in a chair before him, it was with no pre-conceived notion of characterization or of painting technique, of compositional arrangement or of painterly colour scheme that he scanned the features of his subject; he responded incisively, on the spot, with the scalpel of his intellect. And if he was on, two hours later a vibrant human soul stripped of all artificiality looked forth from the painting board with eternal and often disturbing clarity.”