Lot 137: RONALD LANGLEY BLOORE 1925 - 2009

RONALD LANGLEY BLOORE 1925 - 2009 WHITE ABSTRACT PAINTING oil on masonite 109.2 by 228.6 cm. 43 by 96 in.

Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Toronto, 2007, p. 152

Terrence Heath, Ronald Bloore, Not Without Design, Regina, 1993, p. 43 for an illustration of a very similar painting

Private Collection, Toronto

Bloore, a member of the Regina Five, did his first white-on-white paintings in 1957 when he was teaching at the University of Toronto. He had a preconceived idea of what he wanted in his art rather than working in a spontaneous manner.

Nasgaard notes:

Bloore's works seem diagramatic, but his linear patterns, his sunbursts, his crystalline forms, do not constitute a formulated iconic content, but are more like an 'iconic formalism'. In other words, the viewer will have the sensation of a communication, albeit couched in an unknown or forgotten language delivered by a surface pattern of abstract calligraphy and near-archetypal symbols...

Bloore developed one of the most distinctly articulated voices of his generation.