“Tolstoy, who spoiled much of his work by argumentative moralizing, tells us in What Is Art? that ‘the business of art lies just in this: to make that understood and felt which in the form of an argument might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.’”
— Bertram Brooker (1936)
a few highlights from Cowley Abbott’s current auction preview in Toronto: 1) a stunning Rita Letendre "arrow" canvas, 2) Bertram Brooker’s "Space and Time," which is reproduced as a plate in my book Out of School, 3) a more gestural Rita Letendre, 4) an enigmatic symbolist scene by Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake 🖼️🖼️🖼️✨
William Denton
Adam Lauder