Lot 33
JEAN-PAUL LEMIEUX, R.C.A.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Quebec City.
Literature:
Guy Robert, Lemieux, Toronto, 1978, page 170 (chapter entitled Figure and Background).
Note:
In describing Lemieux’s portraits, Robert writes that each one has a place, independent of its date of execution in a logical progression: from the face viewed in close-up on a more or less non-existent background, to the figure that has become a virtually negligible quantity lost in an immense landscape: “The latter gives the impression of being on the very edge of non-existence - and yet its presence, meagre though it may be, gives meaning to a space otherwise devoid of that seed which makes the creative act of seeing possible.”