“Now I want badly to get to work. I would like to do something with Place Ville Marie and the girls who flock there at noon” Surrey said in August of 1963. Place Ville Marie completed in 1962, and the celebratory atmosphere of this important building complex inspired a series of four of what are among Surrey’s most sought after large format paintings. This work relates directly to a large format Surrey painting identified as Place Ville Marie l, a view of the plaza along...