Untitled (série Bleu, Blanc, Rouge)

Untitled (1974), a stunning modular painting comprising six rectangles joined together at the back, commands the attention through its forceful and bold composition. Like other key works created that year, such as La vitesse-Rocket, and other assembled-panel works in acrylic on canvas, the painting spans an impressive one metre by two metres. Art historian Marcel Saint- Pierre identifies two phases in this body of work, and puts Untitled firmly in the latter, which is “composed of oblique blue and red bands that, save for their drips, stop short of the bottom edge. It is as if these compositional or framing devices, these pictorial events in the form of dots, lines, and surface, were essential in making visible the space and speed of execution of an Abstract Expressionist gesture.” Here, Lemoyne formally reconsiders the idea of sports through the theme of the tricolore and his own observations of hockey, reintroducing the essence of the game “as a subject within the field of pop art painting.” Serious collectors should seize the opportunity to acquire this undisputable gem.