Philip Surrey
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff
Philip Surrey
Study for End of Summer (Fairmount Street near Park Avenue), 1974
1910-1990
Pastel & gouache
12 x 8 3/4 in
30.5 x 22.2 cm
30.5 x 22.2 cm
Sold
Inscriptions
signed, 'Surrey' (lower right)Provenance
Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal, as La fin de l'été
Acquired from the above by private collection, Montreal., November 29, 1974
Exhibitions
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Philip Surrey Retrospective Exhibition, September 18 - October 2, 2004, no. 24.
This is the study for a painting by Philip Surrey we sold last year which in our opinion is Philip Surrey’s most important accomplishment of this vintage of his career. Additionally, in our estimation, it is not out done in importance by the most significant pictures of other vintages.
As the late Dan Delaney of Montreal’s West End Gallery astutely commented about Philip Surrey’s artwork, “There was always a question to be answered and the viewer had to look within himself to answer.” ( Westmount Examiner, May 10, 1990 )
Love is an emotion he was troubled by from his childhood, a struggle he described in the biographical sketch Margaret wrote on his behalf. Youth is a constant in a significant body of his work. Youth and love, or youth and romance find composition in many of his fine works in various media beginning in the 1950s, notably including in oils his Lovers, Westmount Park (Private Collection), Lovers, Westmount Park, 1957 (formerly in the Canadian Embassy, Mexico), The Lovers circa 1957 (Art Gallery of Hamilton) and in etching, Boy and Girl of 1961.
As the late Dan Delaney of Montreal’s West End Gallery astutely commented about Philip Surrey’s artwork, “There was always a question to be answered and the viewer had to look within himself to answer.” ( Westmount Examiner, May 10, 1990 )
Love is an emotion he was troubled by from his childhood, a struggle he described in the biographical sketch Margaret wrote on his behalf. Youth is a constant in a significant body of his work. Youth and love, or youth and romance find composition in many of his fine works in various media beginning in the 1950s, notably including in oils his Lovers, Westmount Park (Private Collection), Lovers, Westmount Park, 1957 (formerly in the Canadian Embassy, Mexico), The Lovers circa 1957 (Art Gallery of Hamilton) and in etching, Boy and Girl of 1961.
