signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse; unframed
36 × 48 in (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
Auction Estimate:$500 - $700
Sale date:December 8 - 15, 2020
Price Realized
$300
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto
The 1990 press release related to the Art Dialogue Gallery exhibition of John McLean’s new works in oil, described the paintings in the series (where “Sky Blue” debuted) with:
“The landscape is re-designed to fit the content of contemporary aesthetics. Like a multi-image projection, the new paintings by John Dunbar McLean are a window with several views. The windows and the views are a clever composition of forms, lines, colours recalling large vistas of land, sky, lakes, woods and other natural sights. Sometimes the composition incorporates details in a superimposed or transposed effect but without ever being realistic. The final result is an abstract cloisonné relating the sensations of nature”
-Luciana Benzi (Gallery Owner/Director, Art Dialogue Gallery)
