Rita Letendre
Beginnings in Abstraction
- Publisher
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2005
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921500612
- Publish Date
- Jan 2005
- List Price
- $10
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Rita Letendre's early painterly abstractions are uniquely linked to both Les Automatistes and Painters Eleven as well as to internationalist trends. Work from the late 1950s and early 1960s finds Letendre successfully adopting the expressionist mode of painting, examples of which are found in this exhibition. The singular path she took into hard-edge abstraction in the 1960s and '70s is perhaps somewhat better known. Over the last decade, Letendre has painted works in which the line between abstraction and representation has been deliberately obscured. The work we see in this exhibition speaks not only to her roots as a painter but also to what she would bring to the future of modern painting in Canada.
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