signed & dated lower right; signed, titled & dated verso
Featuring a moment of sheer energy and movement, this expressionist work with the title of TAPENDAMOUR was created during a period when the artist was engaged with a number of important solo exhibitions in Canada and the USA. The title is likely a cypher that in French phonetically refers to “your heartbreak”. This sentiment is perhaps poetically evoked by the composition’s jagged black forms stretching diagonally upwards like birds taking flight. A later member of the great school of Montreal abstract modernism, Hurtubise was once described in “The Ottawa Citizen” as the “Enfant Terrible of the Quebec Art Scene”. He was celebrated for his exuberant, large-scale, visually dynamic paintings. As a mixed media on canvas, TAPENDAMOUR is a mixture of oil, acrylic and likely oil pastel. Its colours such as orange, pink and turquoise work together to enhance the vivid character of the work.
