Lot 123
RITA LETENDRE, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Montreal
Private Collection, Winnipeg
Literature:
Rita Letendre, Rita Letendre: A Continuing Tradition, Moore Gallery, Toronto, 1994, quoted by Linda Jansma in Rita Letendre: Beginnings in Abstraction, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 2005, page 6.
Note:
Though lacking the lavish impasto of canvases executed during this time, the surface of Souvenir Morose, vibrates with the same tension. Rita Letendre manipulates the watery medium into a restless scene that wields magnetic command over the viewer’s eye. Atop a backdrop of black and Venetian red, Letendre compels us towards a cascade of vitesse in blue: a semblance of a figure caught between two worlds, one of the “prisoners struggling to free themselves.”