Lot 51: Dennis Eugene Norman Burton 1933 - Canadian oil on

Dennis Eugene Norman Burton 1933 - Canadian oil on board Cooks White, Instead of Orange, on a Tabletop Landscape " 48 x 48 inches 121.9 x 121.9 centimeters signed and dated twice and on verso signed, titled, dated December 28, 1960 and inscribed ""31 holes in surface, days in December"" Provenance:Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Private Collection, Ontario Exhibited:Vancouver Art Gallery, 13th Annual Contemporary Exhibition and Sale, organized by the Women's Auxiliary, March 4 - 19, 1961 Dennis Burton is one of the pivotal Canadian abstract artists of his generation. He had an affinity for lyrical Abstract Expressionism, and admired Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky for their mastery of colour, line and form to convey imagery. The title of the work, Cooks White, Instead of Orange, on a Tabletop Landscape contains the idea of text interplaying with visual imagery which gives insight into the colours used by the artist, the abstract idea of paint as it is applied to canvas and the dismissal of traditional landscape from his art.