Philip Surrey
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff
Philip Surrey
Au Petit Lunch
1910-1990
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 in
45.7 x 61 cm
This painting is available to view at our Montreal gallery.
45.7 x 61 cm
CAD 40,000
Further images
Inscriptions
signed, 'SURREY' (upper middle right)Provenance
Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal;
Acquired from the above, private collection, Montreal, February 6, 1973.
Exhibitions
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, Philip Surrey Retrospective Exhibition, September 18-October 2, 2004, no. 1.
Looking at this painting, a rare quote by the artist and the insight of art critic Robert Ayre cited below leads the viewer to speculate on various interpretations of the work.
“In many of my pictures there is a man walking by himself, that man is always me,”[1] metaphorically Philip Surrey said.
“The city is his place. Night is his time, and the overwhelming solitude of man his theme.... Apprehension and fear lurk in the threatening shadows, but the greatest terror is loneliness.” [2] Robert Ayre wrote about Philip Surrey.
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Footnotes:
[1] Margaret Surrey, Biographical notes of Philip Surrey, Philip and Margaret Day Fonds, P85A, National Archives of Canada, Estate Philip Surrey.
[2] Robert Ayre, City and the dream of Philip Surrey, Canadian Art, Vol. 21, September 1964, p. 287
“In many of my pictures there is a man walking by himself, that man is always me,”[1] metaphorically Philip Surrey said.
“The city is his place. Night is his time, and the overwhelming solitude of man his theme.... Apprehension and fear lurk in the threatening shadows, but the greatest terror is loneliness.” [2] Robert Ayre wrote about Philip Surrey.
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Footnotes:
[1] Margaret Surrey, Biographical notes of Philip Surrey, Philip and Margaret Day Fonds, P85A, National Archives of Canada, Estate Philip Surrey.
[2] Robert Ayre, City and the dream of Philip Surrey, Canadian Art, Vol. 21, September 1964, p. 287
