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1. 1. William Perehudoff AC-00-7, 2000 presented by Newzones

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   Published on: 6/2/2008   Last Visited: 6/2/2008

   William PerehudoffArtist: William Perehudoff, Title: AC-00-7, 2000 - click for larger image

2. 2. www.poussin-gallery.com

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   Published on: 4/7/2008   Last Visited: 4/7/2008

   William Perehudoff: Paintings 1967 - 1997 Poussin Gallery
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   William Perehudoff: Paintings 1967 - 1997
   
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   William Perehudoff: Paintings 1967 - 1997
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   William Perehudoff - AC-92-16
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   William Perehudoff , A Sense of Place
   
   At the age of eighty-nine, William Perehudoff has a most distinguished career to look back on. But it's not just the high level of his accomplishment that is noteworthy. Perehudoff is remarkable also for his strong identification with a specific place and its values. Born in rural Saskatchewan in 1919, he worked on farms in his youth and has retained close ties to the land ever since. Viewers might be tempted to see a reflection of the vast spaces, the great flatness, and the fertile, blossoming earth of the Canadian prairies in Perehudoff's suggestion of an extensive but indeterminate space, his frequent use of broad horizontal elements and his urge to combine earth tones with pure hues of the spectrum - however indirect and subliminal that influence may be. But there's much more to his art than that.
   
   Perehudoff's identification is not just with a specific place but also with a community , indeed with a set of communities. The first of these was the very supportive Doukhobor community within which Perehudoff, the son of Russian immigrants, was raised.
   
   The second was The Prospectors, a closely knit group of Saskatoon painters formed in 1948, the year of his first solo exhibition. Besides Perehudoff, The Prospectors included well known local artists Reta Cowley, Wynona Mulcaster and Ernest Lindner, whose Saturday night socials were the glue keeping that community of painters together.
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   By 1949 Perehudoff had begun studying in New York with Amédée Ozenfant, who, together with Le Corbusier, founded the Purist Movement.
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   It was an unusual, almost eccentric decision, but Ozenfant's teaching turned out to be a seminal influence for Perehudoff.
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   For Perehudoff it was encouragement to pare his art down to its essentials and, eventually, to adopt abstraction.
   
   In the fall of 1950 Perehudoff left for Europe and, after marrying Saskatoon painter Dorothy Knowles in Paris in 1951, traveled throughout Europe with his new wife: England, France, Italy, where he was impressed by the great English watercolourists and early Renaissance frescoes.
   
   After returning to Saskatchewan, Perehudoff did farm work, and like so many of the best Canadian painters, supported himself, his wife and three daughters as a commercial artist while he continued to paint. He did not begin to paint full time until 1960 - 25 years after beginning commercial work at Modern Press.
   
   Perehudoff was then in a position to take greater advantage of a new institution. Young artists in Saskatchewan were acutely aware that isolation from the major artistic centres was an impediment to their professional advancement, and so in 1955 they had established the Emma Lake Artists' Workshop with the goal of bringing leading practitioners from those centres to northern Saskatchewan. The result was the creation of another of those communities that nourished Perehudoff's art.
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   Perehudoff was eager to accept the challenge and place himself in a more demanding international community of artists committed to excellence in the advancement of modern art.
   
   Such an artist never sits still for too long. As Perehudoff's 1999 exhibition, Five Decades of Colour, established, he continued to reinvent himself as a painter, with a rather distinctive body of work emerging in each of the decades from the 1950s through the 1990s. Every viewer will have his or her favourites among them, although they are all united by Perehudoff's singular vocabulary of forms and his strikingly personal aesthetic,
   
   Perehudoff is in poor health these days and is no longer able to paint, but his mature working method was distinctive. He would paint on unstretched canvas on the floor, listening to

3. 3. www.denisblais.co.uk

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   Published on: 12/17/2007   Last Visited: 12/17/2007

   William Perehudoff is Canada's elder statesman of modernist painting.
   
   Born in 1919 in Langham, Saskatchewan, Perehudoff has spent close to six decades creating innovative and experimental works that have exceeded the boundaries of Canadian abstract art.
   
   Most recognised for evoking the earthy tones of the Prairie landscape, Perehudoff is distinctive for his dedication to the application and layering of colour and form.
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   Today, Perehudoff is recognised as one of Canada's most important colour field painters. He has exhibited widely in Canada, the US and Europe; he has been honoured as a Member of the Order of Canada; and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy.
   
   The Canadian High Commission is delighted to bring William Perehudoff's work to London, paying homage to a great Canadian artist.