Lot 77: Thomas Sherlock Hodgson 1924 - 2006 Canadian

Thomas Sherlock Hodgson 1924 - 2006 Canadian watercolour, gouache, pastel and graphite on illustration board Still Life 17 1/2 x 27 inches 44.4 x 68.6 centimeters signed and dated 1957 Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto By descent to the present Private Estate, Toronto As a member of the Painters Eleven - the group that was largely responsible for bringing abstraction to Toronto in the 1950s - Tom Hodgson was an individual among individuals. Each of the Eleven had their own style; they had come together in order to be known formally as a group, and also as a way to increase their likelihood of exhibiting and selling work. Hodgson worked mainly in the style of lyrical abstraction. He preferred the female figure - painting chaotic, sensual semi-nudes - but also painted still lifes. His watercolours are perhaps the most lyrical of his abstractions, owing in part to their assured, fluid lines and floating washes of colour. Defined with graphite, brightened with pastel and further elaborated by watercolour and gouache, Still Life is no exception to this, with the outside lines and inside shapes of the forms hinting at what they actually are; a black-capped bottle, a book and perhaps a glass.