signed lower left; inscribed “Ferron” on the reverse of the frame
13.75 × 8.5 in (34.9 × 21.6 cm)
Auction Estimate:$7,000 - $9,000
Sale date:November 14 - 28, 2018
Price Realized
$6,490
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Montreal
Marcelle Ferron’s predominant method employed the palette knife, as demonstrated in “Sans titre”, painted during the 1960s. In this decade, the artist’s paint application became more rhythmically repetitive and spanned the entire canvas, using broad, thick palette knife strokes. “Sans titre” recalls the layered impasto of Borduas’ paintings, with its wide, thick strokes of white with streaks of pigment, as well as strokes of dark blue scraped onto the canvas which reveal white pigment underneath. A white ground became a dominant characteristic in her work of the 1960s, but disappeared in 1966 when Ferron abandoned oil painting to work almost exclusively in stained glass for several years.
