Bernie's Beach

This painting is in excellent condition. It is signed on the lower right corner and has a numbered (#125) estate stamp on the back. The frame is in good condition. The framed dimension is 41 x 53 in. 

This painting was purchased through Gallery 78.

"Bernie's Beach" is near Bernard Riordon's home near Pokeshaw on the north shore of New Brunswick. 

Bernard Riordon former Director and CEO of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, in Legacy of Art Show booklet, 2003 -

“In his introduction to the 1983 exhibition, curator Donald Andrus notes that we have some forty years of efforts by critics to “place” Bobak: “European reviewers of his exhibitions have apparently found it difficult to see him as Canadian. Canadian reviewers, with increasing difficulty by the 1950s and 1960s, struggled to locate Bobak in the context of contemporary Art movement in Canada. As a result, a certain stock terminology has attached itself to Bobak, in many cases, I believe, simply through its recurrent usage: ‘expressionism’ ‘humanist,’ ‘man of compassion,’ etc.”

Now, we have had sixty years to analyze and “place” Bruno Bobak and in my view he is a visionary, a person of his time and place who has, through his artwork, told stories that are personal and at the same time universal and timeless. There is a fusion between his process and ideas that results in artworks that are compelling and powerful.

For almost sixty years, Bobak has maintained a consistent practice providing guidance and instruction to a younger generation of artists and always maintains the principal of excellence.