Restaurant
- Oil on Canvas
- 30 x 36 in
- Maxwell Bates (1906-1980)
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Included in the Glenbow Museum's retrospective, "The In Crowd"
We are pleased to present a very important work from the highly regarded and influential expressionist, Maxwell Bates.
This superb work, "Restaurant," was curated into the Glenbow Museum's retrospective on Bates, "The In Crowd," in 2020.
Maxwell Bates created a series of ‘social paintings’ in the twilight of his career. As an expressionist painter, Bates was interested in the human experience. Many of these works focus on restaurant scenes, such as this. Bates felt that his social paintings that he made during this period were some of his best work as they captured the subtle and complex qualities of human relationships and interactions so well.
Always a keen observer, Bates turned his attention to his new social and cultural milieu. The paintings vividly demonstrate his wit, wonderful handling of paint and interest in colour and pattern.
Labels from the Glenbow and Loch Gallery are both on the back of the work.
“Good painting must offer something meaningful to the spectator, but it may be enigmatic. Painter and spectator collaborate unconsciously”
- Maxwell Bates
Watch the Glenbow Museum's virtual tour of the exhibition on the YouTube video provided. "Restaurant" is visible at 6m51s
- Created: 1969