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77 LÉON BELLEFLEUR ÉMERGENCE oil on canvas signed and dated ‘77; also signed, titled and dated on the reverse 46 ins x 35 ins; 116.8 cms x 88.9 cms Provenance: Thielsen Gallery, London Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal Private Collection, Toronto $12,000–15,000
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Literature: Guy Robert, Bellefleur, Iconia, Montreal, 1988, page 9. Note: “Yes, the most important thing is not what we see, but what we imagine.” Léon Bellefleur In the 1970s, Bellefleur’s work started to be more lyrical than that of the previous decade. Conveyed in a dance of pigments, texture, and movement, paintings like Émergence render the painter’s desire to capture an impulse of inspiration and protect it from the inevitable transience of time.