John Fox
Montreal Street, 1959
1927-2008
Oil on linen
30 x 24 in
76.2 x 61 cm
76.2 x 61 cm
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Inscriptions
signed, ‘J.Fox’ (lower left); inscribed ‘MONTREAL STREET/ OIL ON LINEN/ 1959, JOHN R. FOX/ 30 X 24 INCHES/ PF314’ (verso, centre)Provenance
Estate of the artist;
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal;
Acquired from the above by Private collection, Montreal, August 13, 2010.
Exhibitions
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., John Fox : Retrospective Exhibition, 11-25 September, 2010, no. 4;
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Important Canadian Art, 13 August - 12 September 2010.
We have always considered this type of painting by John Fox shows a glance at Pierre Bonnard. A local radio broadcaster refers to this kind of potential relationship as perhaps “distant cousins”. Take James W. Morrice and go forward 30 years in the development of modern art.
Documentaries, his paintings are not. Fox was living on a small street called Selkirk just north of Sherbrooke Street at St Mathieu, just a few hundred meters west of our Montreal location today. Looking at this painting, this is most assuredly inspired by a view looking toward a complex of greystone buildings on Sherbrooke Street which were developed some 15 years ago incorporating a 20 storey condominium. It is now known as the Beaux Arts Condominiums, a prestigious Montreal address in the Golden Square Mile.
Documentaries, his paintings are not. Fox was living on a small street called Selkirk just north of Sherbrooke Street at St Mathieu, just a few hundred meters west of our Montreal location today. Looking at this painting, this is most assuredly inspired by a view looking toward a complex of greystone buildings on Sherbrooke Street which were developed some 15 years ago incorporating a 20 storey condominium. It is now known as the Beaux Arts Condominiums, a prestigious Montreal address in the Golden Square Mile.
