Sold for: $43,250

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist in 1964 by a Private Collection, Regina
By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Charles Comfort and Richard Simmins, Five Painters from Regina: Bloore, Godwin, Lochhead, McKay, Morton, National Gallery of Canada, 1961, catalogue #17, unpaginated

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Five Painters from Regina: Bloore, Godwin, Lochhead, McKay, Morton, November 1 - December 26, 1961, traveling in Canada December 7, 1962 - May 30, 1963, catalogue #17
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Kenneth Lochhead Paintings 1952-66, November 11 - December 4, 1966

Kenneth Lochhead writes in his statement for the Five Painters from Regina catalogue:

After moving to Regina in 1950 I began to see and feel with admiration the power of the prairies. Such vast breadths and depths of space provide that opportunity for the spirit and mind to imagine infinite possibilities. This meeting with prairie nature continues not only to revitalize my narrative appetite of people and places but gives me an opportunity to become a living part of it.

The prairie landscape became a fitting surreal background for the arrangements of figures. After pursuing this direction for more than five years I found myself less involved with the impact of the prairie as objective nature, and more engaged in the feeling of living on the prairies—so far away from the pace-setters in New York City. I began to realize that I needed to travel to see the work of Giotto and of other giants in art and think things over in Italy for a few months. Upon my return to Saskatchewan I began to see the physical potential in the “action” so well revealed by John Ferren, one of the original New York abstract expressionists and perhaps its most articulate spokesman. Through my association with Regina painters such as Art McKay, I have enlarged by scope of understanding that “expressive life can be beautiful.” With this attitude I have happily, although often blindly, pursued myself. I am particularly indebted to the work of such New York painters as Kline, De Kooning, together with others working in the area of “action” or “gesture” painting.

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