RITA LETENDRE "ORAGE / JOUR" PASTEL, 1992Rita Letendre (1928 2021) is one of Canadas leading abstract painters and one of Caviar20's favourite artists. Early in her career, Letendre was associated with Les Automatistes (which included Borduas and Riopelle amongst others) in Montreal's avant garde circles of the 1950s. However in the 1960's her aesthetic transformed and evolved and she embraced hard edge abstraction. Her marriage to Kosso Eloul arguably had a tremendous impact on her artistic

and below a central mass

Colour pencil and ink on paper

He began to explore figuration and become part of the first generation of the Bay Area Figurative Movement

Picturing a woman presumably named Jassara

Many of these drawings were never exhibited - as they are often outside the themes that Pachter is most known for

They worked with photography

often including brushing

Over the course of his career Koons has created a limited number of prints

Three giant

Collage was an important part of Nevelson's practice

who rests gently against the woman's chest in a tender embrace yet is almost entirely abstract

Watercolour is a great medium when on-the-go