“Passages Rose, Erosion Vert et Bleu”, 1968

Acrylics on canvas
Signed lower right
40” x 32”
Provenance: Private collection, Montreal
Exhibited: National Gallery of Canada, 1970, “Fernand Leduc”
            Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, September 15- October 31, 1970
            Musée du Québec, April 1- April 30, 1971
            Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Jean, July 1- July 31, 1971
            Beaverbrooke Art Gallery, Fredericton, August 15- September 15, 1971
            University of Sherbrooke, October 1-October 31, 1971
            The Robert Mclaughin Gallery, Oshawa, November 15- December 15, 1971
            Musée d’art Contemporain of Montreal, Fernand Leduc Retrospective, December 9, 1970- January 17, 1971

Abstraction, circa 1969-1970

Acrylics
Signed and dated 1970 on the reverse
Inscribed S-G-5-69 on a gallery label on the reverse
14” x 20”
Provenance: Private collection, Montreal
              Galérie 111, Montreal, Quebec

This striking composition by Fernand Leduc, created around 1969–1970, marks a pivotal moment in his transition toward a more liberated and sensorial abstraction. Departing from the structured plasticism of his earlier Automatist roots, Leduc explores expansive fields of saturated color, where fluid, organic forms in vibrant red unfold against deep blue and green grounds. The painting conveys a sense of movement and quiet tension, as if color itself is breathing across the surface—an early indication of the atmospheric, chromatic explorations that would come to define his later work.