Lot 5
  • 5

Paul-Émile Borduas 1905 - 1960

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Description

  • Paul-Émile Borduas
  • Tendresse des gris
  • signed Borduas and dated 55 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 by 30 in.
  • 91.4 by 76.2 cm
  • 1955

Provenance

Private Collection, England (acquired circa 1958)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

São Paulo, Brazil,  Bienal du Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, III Bienal,  June - October, 1955, no. 7 in the Canadian section, as Ternura dos cinzas
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna, Artistas Canadenses Paul-Émile Borduas e Jean-Paul Riopelle,  November 24 - December 11, 1955, no. 7, as Ternura dos cinzas
Mount Holyoke
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Paul-Émile Borduas. Paintings 1953-1956, March 18 - April 6, 1957, no. 4
London, England, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Two Canadian Painters: Paul-Émile Borduas - Harold Town,  October 7 - 25, 1958, no. 5, p. 9, illustrated
Vancouver Art Gallery, Borduas and America, December 9, 1977 - January 8, 1978, no. 88, pp. 19, 23, 40, 43-44