When Jack died in 2019, the task of closing his studio fell to my brother and I and some of Jack’s closest friends. There were a few major paintings stored in the Richmond Street studio which we sent to the Olga Korper Gallery, but there were also works dating back to the 1980s and 1990s. After photographing and documenting them for inclusion in the archive they have remained in storage at my house. I have decided that the time has come to offer them for sale. The first set of works are the figural drawings from the 1990 show at Carmen Lamana. Despite the fact that Globe and Mail critic John Bentley Mays called these drawings “the most beautiful and accomplished drawings” that Jack had exhibited to that point, none of the works sold (Globe and Mail, March 9th, 1990).
I also have an extensive collection of drawings and works on paper dating from 1982 until the mid 1990s, when Jack stopped using preparatory drawings in his practice. The drawings were tucked away in a drafting filing cabinet and many had not seen the light of day for more than 30 years. Jack clearly had no nostalgia for these early works, but their heavy grease pencil treatments of labouring and suffering bodies and penitentiary-like factories are early, raw expressions of Jack’s life long engagement with the struggle at the heart of humane existence.
I will be post photographs of the drawings that will be for sale over the course of the next few weeks. Please contact me for prices at:
10 Portraits of men Who For Some Reason Think They are Successful
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #1,
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #3
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #4
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #5
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #6
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #7
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #10
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #9
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64
Ten Portraits of Men Who for Some Reason Feel Successful #2
(1989-90)
Grease Pencil, Graphite, Conte, and Collage on Wood
38.5×64