Lot 156
JOHN RICHARD FOX
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Montreal
Literature:
The Montreal Star, February 9, 1957.
Note:
Fox’s influence of the Fauvists that he so admired can be seen in this work. While this group were intense with their colour and line, they were more conservative with their choice of subject matter often depicting charming landscapes. Here we have the center of Paris with a bucolic atmosphere. One reviewer discussing Fox’s work wrote that he, “paints thinly, something like a water colour painter, taking pleasure not in juicy pigment or in the third dimension, but in the pattern that fills the square, in space and proportion and the judicious use of colour. In colour he is individual and ingratiating, rich and glowing without being sumptuous and reticent, wearing it like a mellow bloom..."