signed lower right; inscribed “#58” and “No. 1” on the reverse
36 × 48 in (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
Auction Estimate:$7,000 - $9,000
Sale date:November 19, 2019
Price Realized
$7,080
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Calgary
Perehudoff’s training and ambition as a young artist were expanded by his travels in the United States and Europe in 1952. He married Dorothy Knowles in 1952 and they returned to Saskatchewan, where he earned his living as a commercial artist while pursuing his own independent path as a painter. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he was an active participant in the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops, which further propelled his career and abilities as an abstract painter. This rare 1958 oil painting demonstrates Perehudoff’s early preoccupation with colour, surface and texture, which would remain constant throughout his long career. “Abstraction” shows parallels to the gestural abstract painting popular in Canada and the United States of the 1950s, with vigorous brushstrokes and layers of oil paint forming a rich, tactile surface.
