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The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)

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3 + 4 + 1, 1956

Paul-Émile Borduas
Canadian, 1905 - 1960
oil on canvas
199.8 x 250 cm
Purchased 1962
National Gallery of Canada (no. 9858)
© Estate of Paul-Émile Borduas / SODRAC (2007)

3 + 4 + 1 is an outstanding example from a series of large, rigorously abstract paintings that Borduas made in Paris. Here the artist has created a reversible image, which can be seen either as a white screen with openings that reveal a background layer of black, or as clusters of one, three, and four black shapes - hence the title - that float on the shimmering white surface.

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