An explosion of gorgeous colour greets the viewer’s eye in this extraordinary abstract painting by Paul Fournier. A master colourist, Fournier is considered one of Canada’s most significant artists. This piece in wildly expressive form and colour captures imagery from a tropical paradise—bright red feathers popping against a deep sapphire blue canvas and highlighted by a rainbow of colours—yellow at its center.

Fournier received early praise from the distinguished NY art critic, Donald Kuspit who described his colourful Fauvist-like work as that of an ‘exotic modernist.’ Fauvism was a post-impressionist movement in France (think Matisse) characterized by an imaginative use of colour. In the sixties, Fournier was part of a group of gifted Toronto painters…Milly Ristvedt, K.M. Graham and David Bolduc, among them who explored the techniques and forms of abstraction.