Lot 107
JOHN MEREDITH, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
John Meredith: A Retrospective, 1955-1990, with an introduction by Paul Duval, Kaspar Gallery, 1990, unpaginated.
Note:
In contrast to John Meredith’s later works – with their inky calligraphy – the artist’s 1950s canvases are vigorous and encrusted with rich impasto. Dashes across the canvas – red, blues, yellows – are woven together in intense animation.
Paul Duval writes, “It would be difficult to find an artist with a more immediate impulse of expression, short of recklessness… Meredith’s lines and shapes animate his canvases with a surprising and sometimes explosive tension yet, in the end, always achieve a precarious balance.”