Lot 25
LÉON BELLEFLEUR, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Montreal
Literature:
André Breton in Guy Robert, Bellefleur: The Fervour of the Quest, Iconia, Montreal, 1988, page 101.
Note:
“A painting always comes out of the imagination, and it is always someone else’s imagination that the painter speaks to.”
Painted during his last season in Paris, before his return to Montreal in the fall, Fin d’été depicts Bellefleur’s attempt to capture the ephemeral. Letting his inner world invade the canvas in an impromptu meeting of colours and lines, the painter masterfully gives form to fragments of his imagination.