Lot 23: John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas

John Meredith 1933 - 2000 Canadian oil on canvas June '61 39 x 55 inches 99 x 139.7 centimeters signed and dated 1961 and on verso signed, titled and dated on the stretcher Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., Toronto Women's Committee of the Art Gallery of Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited:Art Gallery of Toronto, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition and Sale of Contemporary Canadian Painting, Sculpture and Graphics: Quebec - Ontario, October 25 - November 11, 1963, catalogue #97 In Meredith's June '61, contorted vertical bands and stripes, in alternating tonalities of brilliant colours, take on vegetal and then cellular connotations, alluding to a primal and evolutionary realm.