Art canadien classique
Gaspé Coast, 1953 (circa)
Inscriptions
signed, ‘G Roberts’ (lower right)Provenance
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Westmount, Quebec
Property of a Distinguished Montreal Collector
In 1952 the Royal Canadian Air Force purchased one of his paintings for presentation to Queen Elizabeth.
In summary, Goodridge Roberts was one of the most honoured figurative artists of his day.
Joan wrote, “Goodridge the man, as I perceived him, was inseparable from Goodridge Roberts the artist. In his work, he maintained an almost symbiotic relationship with his subject. He always had an intensely close interaction with whatever he saw and this meant that he never worked on a landscape unless he could actually see it” [2]
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Footnotes:
[1] Joan Roberts, Joan & Goodridge: My Life with Goodridge Roberts (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2009), 105.
[2] Ibid., 73.