Sold for: $13,750

PROVENANCE
Waddington Galleries, Montreal
Estate of James Borcoman, Ottawa
Through the Eye of a Curator | The Estate of James Borcoman, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, March 31, 2022, lot 401
Private Collection, Ontario
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario

LITERATURE
Barry Lord, "In Search of the Figure in Canadian Paintings," Canadian Art, volume XXI, number 4, 1964, reproduced page 201
Elizabeth Killbourn, Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art, 1966, reproduced pages 82-83
James Borcoman, Goodridge Roberts: A Retrospective Catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, 1969, page 144 and reproduced, catalogue #128

EXHIBITED
Waddington Galleries, Montreal, Goodridge Roberts, March 16 - April 1, 1961
The Tate Gallery, London, organized with the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Painting 1939 - 1963, February 7 - 22 March, 1964, catalogue #10
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Images for a Canadian Heritage, September 20 - October 30, 1966, catalogue #94
Canadian Government Pavilion, Expo 1967, Montreal, Canadian Painting Exhibition, catalogue #12
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Goodridge Roberts: A Retrospective, August 1969 to April 1970, traveling to The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Musée de Quebec, and the London Public Library and Art Museum, Ontario, catalogue #128

Nude on Red Cloth was a highlight in James Borcoman’s collection. This exquisite painting by Goodridge Roberts could perhaps be considered one of the artist's finest nudes. Its prestigious exhibition history is truly extrodinary, having been included in The Tate's exhibition of Canadian Painting in 1964 along with several other prominent museum shows in Canada. Borcoman, who curated the National Gallery of Canada's retrospective exhibition on the artist and wrote its catalogue, noted that this work was "one of a series of nudes painted during the winter of 1961 -1962 with the same monumental treatment and use of strong impressionsitic colour. They represent a departure from the artist's preceding nudes not only because of the colour but also because of the relationship of the figure to the picture."

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