Lot 26: Ronald Langley Bloore 1925 - 2009 Canadian oil and

Ronald Langley Bloore 1925 - 2009 Canadian oil and gesso on board Painting 1960 "48 x 12 inches 121.9 x 30.5 centimeters on verso signed and dated June 1960 Literature:Richard B. Simmins, "R.L. Bloore", Canadian Art, Issue #78, March/April 1962, page 114 R. H. Hubbard, Canadian Painting, 1939 - 1963, National Gallery of Canada and the Tate Gallery, London, 1963 - 1964, reproduced, unpaginated Provenance:CIL Limited, Montreal Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited:Here and Now Gallery, Toronto, 1960 National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Painting, 1939 - 1963, Fall, 1963, traveling to the Tate Gallery, London, February - March, 1964, catalogue #90 When this work was acquired for the Montreal offices of the CIL collection, the artist was only beginning to commit himself to the white-on-white palette with which he would become so strongly identified. Soon after his return from his 1962 - 1963 travels to Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Spain, sponsored by a Canada Council Fellowship, Ron Bloore destr yed most of his paintings executed before that date. How fortunate, then, and how prescient of the purchasers, that this rare example of his Sun series, exhibited in Dorothy Cameron's gallery in his solo exhibition there in 1960, was already part of what was to become one of Canada's earliest corporate collections and subsequently one of five works by Bloore included in the historic National Gallery exhibition that traveled to London's Tate Gallery in 1964. Referring to Bloore as a painter of great promise, in 1962 Richard Simmins wrote: "But where does his success as an artist lie? The answer is simple. After a work has been studied, then dissected verbally so that it has nearly been talked out of existence, the impact of the image remains." "