signed and dated 1980 lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
30.5 × 40 in (77.5 × 101.6 cm)
Auction Estimate:$15,000 - $20,000
Sale date:June 8, 2023
Price Realized
$16,800
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Montreal
Literature
Michael MacDonald, ‘Award winner Jacques Hurtubise had great influence on abstract painting’, “The Canadian Press”, January 1, 2015
Jacques Hurtubise figured prominently in ground-breaking Quebec abstract painting exhibitions in the 1960s. The artist straddled painterliness and hard-edge painting throughout his career. By the mid-1970s he returned permanently to gestural works, which consisted of “deep-black pools, rivers and geometric forms”, as described by Sarah Fillmore, chief curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The spontaneously painted black and white forms in “Sept Cinq Zero” of 1980 demonstrates Hurtubise’s “gestural splash that repeats with different forms and backgrounds.”
