Paul-Émile Borduas

Cheminement bleu, 1955

© The Estate of Paul-Émile Borduas / SOCAN (2022) / Domaine public au Canada • Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay / Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

Paul-Émile Borduas, Cheminement bleu, © The Estate of Paul-Émile Borduas / SOCAN (2022) / Domaine public au Canada • Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay / Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Artist
Paul-Émile Borduas
Title
Cheminement bleu
Dimensions and medium
Oil on canvas, 147.5 × 114.5 cm
Origin
Gift of Iris and Max Stern
Artwork description
From 1953 to 1955, Paul-Émile Borduas lived in New York, hoping to position himself on the international art scene. This period marked an important turning point in the development of his practice where he experimented with new approaches to pictorial space. Cheminement bleu demonstrates the influence of Abstract Expressionism on his work during this period, and an obsession with minimizing the figure/ground dichotomy. White, which materialized in his later works as an expression of light, achieves a perfect balance with the black and blue impasto, generously applied with a palette knife.

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