Art canadien classique
Guitarist, Lachine Canal, 1972
Acrylic on board
16 x 20 in
40.6 x 50.8 cm
40.6 x 50.8 cm
This painting is presently on view at our Montreal gallery
$22,000
Inscriptions
signed and on verso titled and dated 1962 on the gallery label Please note: the gallery label date of 1962 is incorrect. The Philip Surrey, Art in the City Project has confirmed that the date of the work is 1972.Provenance
The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg
Private estate, Vancouver
Surrey’s loneliness certainly permeates the attitude. The junked car is symbolic of his distaste for cars. Early evening has set in. In the distance one can only speculate that we see the dome of St Joseph's Oratory. A guitarist appears sporadically in Surrey’s pictures. For those of us who were there, they are very much of time and of a place, time capsules, witnesses to their days.
