Lot 100
LÉON BELLEFLEUR
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Provenance:
Roberts Galllery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Guy Robert, Bellefleur, The Fervour of the Quest, Montreal, 1988, page 107.
Note:
By titling his works only after completion, Léon Bellefleur allowed his art to name itself. The title, Les Orchidées, encapsulates the emotional setting of this dewy canvas. Intense, lush pigments blossom into enlivened masses and forms of paint. As emphasized by Guy Robert, Bellefleur’s “romantic sensibility blooms in a surrealist atmosphere that transforms the relationship with reality into an alchemy dominated by the immediate, spontaneous and impromptu expression of the most deep-seated impulses of his being.”