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Harold Barling Town 1924 - 1990
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CAD
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Description
- Harold Barling Town
- Toy Horse
1982
signed and dated upper left H. Town 18.22.Feb.82; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
- acrylic on board
- 75.6 by 106.7 cm.
- 29 ¾ by 42 in.
Provenance
Estate of Harold Town
Museums Foundation of Canada
Literature
Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven, The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, Toronto, 2010, p. 169
Catalogue Note
Town habitually worked in series, whether in his single autographic prints, his drawings, or his large paintings. One such series was was based on a toy horse.
Iris Nowell comments:
For Christmas one year, Harold received an antique tin horse with foot pedals, the kind a small child might ride. It inspired a major suite of drawings - the Toy Horse - which, to be clear, is not a few dozen drawings, but several hundred (Harold never arrived at a final count) made over the years from 1976 to 1983. The range is vast, from simple drawings to bold blocky shapes in brilliant pure colours.