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Michael Forster
Sunrise Dance, Celestial Sky

1992

About the Item

Heavily influenced by the works of his close friend the famous Mexico City painter Rufino Tamayo, Forster created a special focus on the supremacy of color. And of larger context paintings that explored both nature and the universe. His paintings speak to all and of our oneness within this realm and an appreciation of it. The work is positive and wishes to unite and expand our vision outward from ourselves. This painting has a warmth of color that will enrich any room and compliment furniture and ambience. It is in a gold frame that has some wear to the gold patina. It is signed on the verso with an artist's cache of initials and it has the inventory # 798A from the estate, along with a date of 1992 on the back. The work comes out of the artist's estate as well as Messums Gallery from London. The piece measures 35 x 49 inches inside its frame. Forster's all-absorbing passion for color resulted in such magnificent gestural pictures as Sunrise Dance, 1992 with its intense color palette. Consistently experimenting and initiating fresh use of paint, Michael Forster ever the world traveler can not be attached to any one particular art group or movement. A proponent of early Surrealism Forster placed an emphasis on the unconscious life of the artist in his perceptive sensual application of paint. Forster’s further concern for the essence of paint itself led him to create mesmerizing surface textures seen in our example that were deeply personal for Forster and full of emotion. The floating forms that seem almost to dance in this picture bear a close resemblance to Tamayo’s works especially through the all-enveloping, deep, full, and impressive array of colors. In this overall landscape composition Forster has reduced all visible images to the fantastical world of color. This highly refined and extremely disciplined abstract work boasts luminous passages of oranges, yellows, pinks, and faint traces of blues and purples that resonate across the canvas and create a luster that is illustrative of the glowing landscape at dawn as the title suggests or even of the universe. The richness of color coupled with the artist’s dexterous handling of paint makes this work a truly spectacular example of Michael Forster’s work. Such varied and richly abstracted pictures place Forster as a stand-out amongst his contemporaries. Forster, active in Canada for more than forty-five years, contributed substantially to the role in the cultural history of Canadian art. A frequent exhibitor with the major art societies already by the 1930’s Forster’s paintings were found in the country’s major museum collections by the 1940’s, an early point in the artist’s long career.
  • Creator:
    Michael Forster (1907 - 2002, Canadian)
  • Creation Year:
    1992
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Width: 53.5 in (135.89 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Medium:
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  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Canvas is in perfect condition. Frame has some rubbing of the gold from wear.
  • Gallery Location:
    Greenwich, CT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 151781stDibs: LU1413210600632

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