Philip Surrey
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff45.7 x 61 cm
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.“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