signed, titled and dated 2015 on the upper edge; unframed
10 × 8 in (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Auction Estimate:$2,000 - $3,000
Sale date:May 31, 2016
Price Realized
$3,450
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Angell Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibited
“You Are Here: Kim Dorland and the Return to Painting”, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2013
Literature
Katerina Atanassova, Robert Enright and Jeffrey Spalding, “Kim Dorland”, Vancouver, 2014, reproduced page 144
Tim Powis, “Kim Dorland: Beautiful Stuff,” (online) Canadian Art, 10 May, 2013
Working in his signature technique of thickly applied paints, “Untitled (Sevres Green Lori)” depicts the artist’s wife, Lori Seymour. The importance of the material and its limitations are at the fore, negotiating the tension between fluorescent and muted pigments. The portrait was exhibited with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2013 for the “You Are Here: Kim Dorland and the Return to Painting.” Challenging contemporary modes of portraiture in the age of photography and digital reproduction, Dorland explains: “I literally just started piling on the paint because I wanted to remind the viewer they they're not photographs; they're paintings.”
