Brandenburg Series Preoccupied - Heffel

HEFFEL FINE ART AUCTION HOUSE 9887 WILLIAM GOODRIDGE ROBERTSCAS CGP CSGA CSPWC OC OSA RCA 1904 ~ 1974Paysage des Cantons~de~l’Estoil on board, signed and on versotitled and dated 195032 x 48 in, 81.3 x 121.9 cmPROVENANCE:Galerie l’Art Français Ltée., MontrealPrivate Collection, MontrealGoodridge Roberts’s focus on figurative, still life, and landscape subjectsaligned him with both Modernist painting and the Academy in the eyes ofmany of his peers. While Roberts was indeed involved with andsupported by the academic artist associations of the time, he eventuallybecame recognized and respected by both classical Modernist supportersand abstractionist purists alike as an individualist ~ due to the singularityof his artistic vision. Roberts consciously eschewed the sublime in hislandscape paintings, seeking out views of nature that would allow him togive equal importance to both the paint itself and the subject matter.Paysage des Cantons~de~l’Est was realized shortly after joining the stableof artists at Dominion Gallery, and typifies that philosophy. With thecropped foreground and sky, the image represents just a fraction of thelandscape, but in this framing of the subject, alludes to the gestalt ofnature ~ rough and tumble, chaotic, yet with an internal poetry of rhythmand form.ESTIMATE: $15,000 ~ 20,00087