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HAROLD BARLING TOWN CGP CPE CSGA OC OSA P11 RCA
1924 ~ 1991
No Sun oil and lucite 44 on board, signed and dated 1959 and on verso signed, titled, dated and inscribed oil on lucite 44 ~ use no turps in cleaning / Caution signature will float, Signed in blue on surface Town 59 / signed 16~12~70 30 x 24 in, 76.2 x 61 cm P ROVENANCE : Private Collection, British Columbia The members of Painters Eleven were successful at creating their own artistic identities before their official parting in 1960. It was during the significant Painters Eleven time period that Harold Town’s multiple
artistic abilities clearly emerged as printmaker, painter and sculptor. He was an artistic tour de force, simultaneously working in various media with incredible vigour. In 1959, this energy was filtered primarily into painting and, as a result, his paintings from the late 1950s and early 1960s are considered to be his most inspired. No Sun is an exemplary work from this period, with Town’s gestural brushwork highlighted by brilliant, unpredictable juxtapositions of colour. The work is highly expressive ~ characteristic of Town’s abstract paintings from this time ~ yet still maintains a consciously determined design with the definitive strokes near the perimeter successfully harnessing the storm of intense colours within. Although Town’s artistic identity would continue to evolve in the years to follow, it is works such as No Sun that so superbly capture his relentless energy and talents.
E STIMATE : $20,000 ~ 30,000