Lot 153: WILLIAM PATERSON EWEN 1925 - 2002

WILLIAM PATERSON EWEN 1925 - 2002 LINEAR FIGURE ON PATTERNED GROUND c. 1965 titled on the stretcher and on a gallery label on the reverse oil on canvas 61.6 by 45.7 cm. 24 ¼ by 18 in.

Matthew Teitelbaum, editor, Paterson Ewen, Toronto/Vancouver, 1996, pp. 20, 22, 59 and 60

Dr. and Mrs. Jacques Ferron, Montreal

Galerie du Siècle, Montreal

Private Collection, Quebec City

In 1965, following the separation from his wife, Ewen lived for a time in Guido Molinari's studio in Montreal. They developed a close relationship and Ewen credits Molinari with teaching him how to paint a rigid line. Molinari's influence is apparent in this canvas of c. 1965, where Ewen divides the suface of the canvas in two with a single line. The surrounding space consists of various geometric shapes painted white on white, creating an illusion of a figure-ground relationship.