signed, titled and dated 1984 on the reverse
14.5 × 39.5 in (36.8 × 100.3 cm)
(including Buyer's Premium)
Private Collection, Toronto
William Perehudoff began his career as a watercolourist, and his lifelong exploration of transparency and opacity carried through to his mature work as a Color Field painter. Working on unprimed linen, he allowed thin pigments to soak into the raw surface, creating depth and atmosphere. In AC-84-29, a wash of thinned grey paint forms a soft foundation, over which the artist layered vibrant vertical bands of pink, yellow, orange, and green. These glossy, tactile strokes hover against the subdued ground, their luminous presence generating both contrast and energy. The raised texture of the paint lends the surface a subtle sculptural quality, enhancing the sense of spatial tension and dimensionality within the composition.
Many of Perehudoff’s canvases of the 1970s and 1980s, such as AC-84-29, reference the reductive formalism of Color Field painting as well as the expansive prairie landscape of his native province. In 1988, Perehudoff was honoured to serve as a leader at an Emma Lake workshop.
