signed and dated 1992 lower left; signed, titled and dated 1992 on the reverse
46 × 35 in (116.8 × 88.9 cm)
Auction Estimate:$15,000 - $18,000
Sale date:November 18 - 25, 2015
Price Realized
$16,100
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Montreal
Literature
Guy Robert, “Bellefleur”, Ottawa, 1988, page 63
Leon Bellefleur enjoyed a continued period of creation and success during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the artist creating work through a multitude of media and exhibiting regularly in Quebec and Ontario. Guy Robert notes that the artist continued to possess a “childlike ability to wonder at life, a freshness of perspective with a thirst not only for discovering, but also for inventing the world.” Providing parallels to the compositional elements of “Illumination”, Robert describes Bellefleur's oils as maintaining “the characteristic style he has used for thirty years: colours spread liberally with a spatula, with the refinement of rhythms and shades...” In the preface for the catalogue of a Toronto exhibition prepared in cooperation with Hamilton's Moore Gallery, poet Gilles Hénault “stressed the fluidity of the recent works giving 'the impression of a cosmogonic scene illuminating from the inside'.”
