Lot 157: RONALD ALBERT MARTIN B. 1943

RONALD ALBERT MARTIN B. 1943 CONCLUSION AND TRANSFER SERIES II (DIPTYCH) one of two titled on a label on the stretcher acrylic on canvas each 157.5 by 167.5 cm. each 62 by 72 in.

Private Collection, Quebec City

Martin has nearly always worked in series of paintings, which was his way of exploring an idea from several different aesthetic points of view. In the late sixties, Martin began a series of paintings he called Conclusion and Transfer. Each was a tribute to an artist he respected and each was abstract. He then made an exact replica of the first painting and both canvases were shown together as a single work. The stimulus for this series was, according to the artist, "a response to a remark of Marcel Duchamp's about the 'gap' in representational painting between the subject (the thing painted) and the object (the painting itself)."