Lot 155
WILLIAM RONALD, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto (gift of the artist)
Literature:
William Ronald, interviewed by Richard Brown Baker, New York, Archives of American Art, April 18 and June 2, 1963.
Note:
Despite his reputation as the founding member of the Painters Eleven in 1954, Ronald did not consider himself an abstract expressionist. In a 1963 interview with Richard Brown Baker, he explained: “I always think of abstract expressionism more or less as de Kooning. He's the man that sort of made it popular, I think. It's a fragmentated (sic) manner of painting and breaking up of space usually using the whole canvas; that is, working out to the four sides like Pollock worked out to the four sides, you see. But I never did. I always had a focal point and a solid, or more or less solid, almost flat image to began with, and then there was some movement in the paint.”