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26 HAROLD BARLING TOWN, R.C.A. STILL LIFE WITH HORSE CHESTNUTS oil on masonite signed and dated ‘52; also signed, titled and dated ‘52 on the reverse and on two labels on the reverse 15.25 ins x 21.5 ins; 38.7 cms x 54.6 cms Exhibited: Annual Young Contemporaries Exhibition, Public Library and Art Museum, London, n.d. $7,000–9,000
27 JOHN MEREDITH UNTITLED watercolour and ink on paper signed and dated ‘65 Sight 19.5 ins x 20.5 ins; 49.5 cms x 52.1 cms Provenance: Isaacs Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Literature: John Meredith: A Retrospective 1955-1990, Kaspar Gallery, Toronto, April 27-May 16, 1991, plate no. 5, for a closely related work entitled Study for Left Panel of Seeker, 1966, reproduced. Note: Paul Duval writes “John Meredith is one of the most lyrical of Canadian painters. It would be difficult to find an artist with a more immediate impulse of expression, short of recklessness. On Meredith’s part, any impending recklessness is reined in by his obsession for drawing – drawing in the purest sense, not as a descriptive tool, but existing in its own gestural right, with a line that follows its own unchartered path of discovery. Meredith’s line is sometimes madcap, sometimes slow, often wayward, but always vital, and much of his presence as a lyric painter depends upon it.” $7,000–9,000
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