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LOT 63

Lot 63

Jean Lefébure (1930-2013)

Jean Lefébure (1930-2013)
Lot 63 Details
Jean Lefébure (1930-2013), Canadian

SANS TITRE, 1981

oil on canvas
signed and dated "81"
21.5 x 30.25 in — 54.6 x 76.8 cm

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

Realised: $1,230
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Jean Lefébure (1930-2013)
  • Jean Lefébure (1930-2013)
  • Jean Lefébure (1930-2013)
Provenance:

Private Collection, Ontario

Note:

The youngest painter associated with the Automatistes, Montreal-born Lefebure built his career in Europe, exhibiting regularly from 1953 to 1965 alongside Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Emile Borduas (who was also one of his teachers). Borduas' influence is felt in Lefebure's paintings, as is the Automatiste concern with sensory experience. Initially, Lefebure painted in a restrained palette, but colour had entered his paintings by the early 1960s. The thick, impasto paint of this untitled work echoes Borduas's technique, but its boldly coloured and jostling composition reflects the metaphorical effects of colour and form also being examined by painters like Ric Evans, David Bolduc and Harold Klunder in the 1970s and early 1980s.

We thank Bill Clarke for contributing this essay. Bill Clarke is a Toronto-based writer, editor, art collector and occasional curator.

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