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WILLIAM RONALD
LOT DETAILS
"Untitled", signed, inscribed "New York" and dated (19)55 lower left, watercolour on paper, sight 36.8 x 46cm (14 1/2 x 18 1/8in); Provenance: private collection, New York; Modern Arts Gallery, London; William Ronald, Canadian, 1926-1998, founding member of the abstract group Painters Eleven; verso is an excerpt from "The Theatre of the Self" by Robert Belton, which explains William Ronald began painting at the studio of Larry Rivers on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place, New York in 1955 and only completed five oil paintings that year, the same year he produced this spectacular early abstract watercolour