Bulletin 8 (IV:2), 1966

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Realism, Surrealism and Celebration:
The Paintings of Alex Colville in the
Collection of the National Gallery of Canada

by Patrick A. E. Hutchings
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Western Australia

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Notes

35 This picture is. attributed to Dulong pré, in The Development of Painting in Canada / Le Développement de la Peinture au Canada 1665-1945 (Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1945; seepl.14 and pp.12 and 15).

36 Robert H. Hubbard. An Anthology of Canadian Art, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1960. Plamondons Still Life with Apples and Grapes (1880) is reproduced as pl. 37 (Italics mine).

37 Antoine Plamondon, Chasse aux tourtes (1853), Art Gallery of Toronto. (Reproduced in colourin Painting and Sculpture, illustrated Catalogue of the Collection, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1959, p. 32.)

Plamondon as well as Colville might be held, with his geometrical elegance, to have trumped the surrealists; his art is crystalline in a sense at least as good as Bretons. 'L'oeuvre d'art, au même titre d'ailleurs que tel fragment de la vie humaine considérée dans sa signification la plus grave, me parait dénuée de valeur si elle ne présente pas la dureté, la rigidité, la régularité, le lustre sur toutes ses faces extérieures, intérieures, du cristal.' (L'Amour fou, p. 19.)

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