Lot 98
  • 98

Jean-Paul Lemieux 1904 - 1990

Estimate
80,000 - 100,000 CAD
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Lemieux
  • LA ROUTE
  • signed l.r.: Jean Paul Lemieux '55; signed and titled on the reverse: LA ROUTE, JEAN PAUL LEMIEUX, and TORONTO on the stretcher

  • oil on canvas
  • 45.7 by 125.7 cm. 18 by 49½ in.

Provenance

Dikson Gallery, Quebec

Roberts Gallery, Toronto

Private Collection, Rome, Italy

Sotheby's Toronto, May, 1988, lot 194

Private Collection, Toronto

Exhibited

Venice, XXX Biennale Internazionale D'Arte Di Venezia, 1960, no. 358                                                     

Literature

A.K. Prakash, Canadian Art, Selected Masters from Private Collections, Ottawa, 2003, p. 212

Condition

This painting is in excellent condition. There are slight stretcher marks along the left side at the top and bottom of the canvas. It has not been relined and there are no apparent issues under UV. We wish to thank "In Restauro Conservart Inc." for examining this painting and their additional condition report is available upon request from Sotheby's.
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Catalogue Note

Lemieux's world is a world of loneliness and melancholy.  This landscape, although it is without people, speaks  clearly about a state of mind that is elegiac and reflective, and is clearly a commentary on mankind and the human place in the environment and in the universe.  A.K. Prakash called Lemieux the lyrical painter of time and space, and so he is.  The purposeful and primitive handling in his work, Prakash continues, now created a compelling atmosphere that spoke of the isolation of the individual in the midst of a large and empty landscape that is peculiarly Canadian.  Paring down forms and colours in the arrangements of his compositions throughout the 1950s, Lemieux reached the heights of his artistic language by 1958.