signed and dated 1957 lower right, numbered 1-1 lower left
23.75 × 18 in (60.3 × 45.7 cm)
Auction Estimate:$1,500 - $2,000
Sale date:November 19 - 28, 2014
Price Realized
$1,610
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Harold Town, “The Autographic Prints of Harold Town”, “Canadian Art”, Ottawa, Summer 1956, pages 334-35
In a 1957 Canadian Art article, Harold Town called the print-making process, “a blessed relief from the intensity of painting...and an arena for the trial by combat of new ideas.” Challenging any alternate perception regarding the seemingly abstracted compositions, Town stated, “All my prints are based upon actual experience, childhood memories, or historical re-creations. They can never be rightly called non-objective, a term which to me is meaningless. I try to delineate psychological experience within given situations. I have been greatly influenced by Japanese prints and films, and by colour films generally, such as Henry V. Some prints have their origin in my ambivalent reactions to paintings.”
