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MOORE GALLERY TRIBUTE
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Sculpture, Drawings, Late Paintings

← Pt.1: Thumbnails / Introduction
← Pt.2: Installation Images
← Pt.3: Main Gallery Artworks

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East Gallery, Sculpture and Works on Paper

1971, Untitled Sploore, 43x8cm, oil on wood and metal
1971, Untitled, 45x12cm, oil on wood (sold)

This Sploore, which also appears on the site here on the Sploores Page was donated to the Contemporary Calgary Museum's 2024 fund raiser auction. The added ear ring and the aluminum piece of found detritus, a crushed fluorescent light fixture cap, make the sculpture unique.

And speaking of unique, the construction on the right, which sold at the show, is completely anomalous. Undeniably successful, it nonetheless did not suggest a new direction. It is one of Bloore's “one-off's”.

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1982, August 5, Untitled, 46x61cm, ink and sumi ink on paper (sold)

This ink work makes a kind of guest appearance on the Black Bloores page and it was in the Meridian Gallery show in San Fransisco. In 1982 the painter began using european vegetable based “black” inks which were mat and deeply coloured next to the carbon based sumi ink. This piece, rather than receding into a kind of image, reads more like an assembled, crafted thing built up of three distinct materials, a sort of decorative object. The sumi ink almost seems like a glaze.

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1981, January 10, Untitled, 46x61cm, sumi ink on paper

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1980, June 24, Untitled, 46x61cm, sumi ink on paper

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1979, August 6, Untitled, 36x51cm, oil and ink on paper (sold)

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1983, October 3, Untitled, 100x151cm, ink on paper (sold)
1982, September 1, Untitled, 46x61cm, ink on paper (sold)

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1984, January 14, Untitled, 100x151cm, ink on paper

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1994, July 1, Untitled, 77x58cm, ink on paper

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1981, August 20, Untitled, 100x151cm, sumi ink on paper (sold)

Yes, those stars are from ancient Egypt, the ceilings of the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. A work almost identical to this one is in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Peterborough and appears on the site here.

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1985, June 18, Untitled, 74x102cm, ink on paper

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1983, September 26, Untitled, 56x76cm, ink on paper

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1980, May 31, Untitled, 36x51cm, sumi ink on paper

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1983, December 26, Untitled, 56x76cm, ink on paper

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Two Sploores, Untitled, 66x11cm, oil on hardwood

These two appear with their cohorts here on the Sploores page.

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Untitled, 12x18cm, Oil on Hardboard (sold)

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West Gallery, Late Paintings

2004, Jan. 19 - Feb. 4, Dark Chocotate Series #8, 122x81cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2006, June 23 - July 29, Yellow (4th Brown) Series #6, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2007, Dec. 3, 2006 - Jan. 3, Fifth Brown Series #5, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2007, January 6 - 23, Black Line (6th Brown) Series #1, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2005, December 12 - 19, Third Brown Series #11, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2002, October 2 - ?, The Move Series, 61x81cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2006, March 2 - 14, Yellow (4th Brown) Series #2, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2004, April 12 - 19, Dark Chocotate Series #16, 122x81cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2006, May 10 - June 5, Yellow (4th Brown) Series #3, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2005, Nov. 12 - Dec.4, Third Brown Series Maquette, 61x61cm, Oil on Hardboard (sold)

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2004, April 5 - 9, Dark Chocotate Series #15, 122x81cm, Oil on Hardboard

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2007, March 10 - April 2, Black Line (6th Brown) Series #4, 122x122cm, Oil on Hardboard

← Pt.1: Thumbnails / Introduction
← Pt.2: Installation Images
← Pt.3: Main Gallery Artworks