RITA LETENDRE "ORAGE / JOUR" PASTEL, 1992 Harold Town Op Art the Los Angeles County Museum

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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

His aesthetic fluctuates between illustration and expressionism

overlaid with grey-washes in differing levels of opacity creating a sense of pictorial depth

RITA LETENDRE "ORAGE / JOUR" PASTEL, 1992 Harold Town Op Art the Los Angeles County MuseumRita Letendre (19282021) 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