David Bolduc, AID TO MEMORY #2, acrylic on canvas, 67 ins x 108 ins; 274.3 cms x 170.2 cms

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DAVID BOLDUCAID TO MEMORY #2acrylic on canvassigned, titled and dated 1981 on the overflap 67 ins x 108 ins; 274.3 cms x 170.2 cms Provenance:Circle Arts, TorontoPrivate Collection, TorontoLiterature:Gary Michael Dault “David Bolduc: Towards a More Interior Life”, David Bolduc: Days and Nights in the Forest, (catalogue), Christopher Cutts Gallery, 2010, unpaginated.Note:For many years, David Bolduc used what Gary Michael Dault described as a “trademark vertical thrust” to anchor his compositions. Dault recalls the artist telling him that this signature motif began as the hands of a watch pointing towards midnight. Over time, the “line of organizational force” became less rigid. In Aid to Memory this organizational force serves to enliven the picture plane and is in turn echoed by the colourful ladders that act, rather classically, as repoussoir elements to frame the compostion.