Art canadien classique
Portrait of Joan Roberts, the Artist’s Wife
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Inscriptions
signed, ‘G. Roberts’ (lower right); inscribed, ‘Head/ $160’ (verso, upper centre)Provenance
The George Waddington Galleries, Montreal as Head
Joyner / Waddington’s, Canadian Art, 1-2 June 2004, lot 284, as Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Property of a Distinguished Montreal Collector
This is a rare and fine study of Joan Roberts, wife of Goodridge Roberts. Joan published in Joan & Goodridge: My Life with Goodridge Roberts: “I loved his work and the feeling and sensitivity it demonstrated. His paintings were no mere decorative depictions of rocks and water, but to me statements about life and about himself. Perhaps I fell in love with the works first, but to me they seemed inseparable from the man who had created them” [1]
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Footnote:
[1] Joan Roberts, Joan & Goodridge: My Life with Goodridge Roberts (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2009), 67.
