RITA LETENDRE "ORAGE IV / JOUR" PASTEL, 1992Rita Letendre (1928 2021) is one of Canadas leading abstract painters and one of Caviar20's favourite artists. Early in her career, Letendre was associated with Les Automatistes (which included Borduas and Riopelle amongst others) in Montreal's avant garde circles of the 1950s. However in the 1960's her aesthetic transformed dramatically as she embraced hard edge abstraction. Her marriage to Kosso Eloul arguably had a tremendous impact on her artistic

“Graphic Presence” is a paradigm of Nevelson’s printmaking from this period

including consumerism

Mounted on dibond

Miró’s passionate rejection of traditional painting led him to reference and experiment with multiple styles including Cubism

and was adopted as a US postage stamp

Note: additional images coming soon

"Stretch #30" is a smaller gem and the last canvas created in the series

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is revered as one of the most innovative American pop artists - more avant-garde than Warhol

overwhelming the structure with color that appears to be either dripping

Straight lines interact with the white of the paper creating hard edges and intriguing negative space

5”H 13"W (work)

Rendered from an improbable vantage point and in strange