Jacques de Tonnancour (b. 1917)
Lot 74: JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR 1917 - 2005
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November 23, 2010
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Description
JACQUES GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR 1917 - 2005 PRÈS DU LAC signed and dated lower right J. de Tonnancour '56; titled on a label on the reverse oil on masonite 61.0 by 91.4 cm. 24 by 36 in.
Literature
The Laurentians, Painters in a Landscape, Art Gallery of Ontario Extension Services, Toronto, 1977, p. 74
Provenance
Private Collection, St. Lambert
Notes
De Tonnancour has commented on his work:
I rediscovered, on the way back going through the spruce forests, in the muskeg country and elsewhere, this linear graphic quality in the forests and my painting developed as a graphic embroidery running through space... My Laurentian landscape series was about silence and a feeling of timelessness expressed through a slow progression into the depth of the scene.
