signed and dated 1980 lower left; titled and dated “March 1980” on the reverse
20 × 20 in (50.8 × 50.8 cm)
Auction Estimate:$6,000 - $8,000
Sale date:November 23, 2017
Price Realized
$5,750
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Moore Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, New Brunswick
Prolific Canadian abstract painter William Ronald was the youngest member of the Painters Eleven. His studies of the Abstract Expressionists in New York in the 1950s left a long-lasting influence on Ronald’s work into the 1980s and 1990s. The artist’s thick and aggressive brushstrokes, visible in “Tinker”, suggest the violent expression of the New York School, and became recognized as a new direction in Canadian art.
