Lot 107
LAWRENCE ARTHUR COLLEY PANTON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Christine Boyanoski, Towards a Lyrical Abstraction, The Art of L.A.C. Panton, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1990, pages 1-11 and page 59, cat. no. 48, reproduced.
Exhibited:
Towards a Lyrical Abstraction, The Art of L.A.C. Panton, Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Toronto, 1990, no. 48.
85th Anniversary of CSPWC, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, Nov. 1 - Nov. 26, 2010.
Note:
At the time of his death in 1955 as a result of a heart attack, L.A.C Panton’s (1894-1954) art was undergoing significant change as he tried to adapt his work to the practice of abstraction that swirled around him in the 1950s. While his work may appear today as more conventional than experimental, it must be acknowledged that Panton was admired by his contemporaries and critically acclaimed during his own lifetime. In fact, in Towards a Lyrical Abstraction, Christine Boyanoski notes that Panton viewed himself as progressive and certainly within the context of the O.S.A., this was very much true.
Panton discovered the Nova Scotia landscape in 1936 and it became an enduring subject for him. He was inspired by the natural elements he found there - particularly the boulder strewn shoreline - which typically, as seen in this lot, he presented in a fractured faceted style, à la mode.