JOANNE TOD "CHRIS BOUCHER" WATERCOLOR, 2025Joanne Tod (b. 1953) is a renowned Canadian painter acclaimed for her unwavering approach to realism, technical precision, and critical wit. She is also one of the country's most celebrated living portrait artists. During Covid, Tod (re)discovered watercolors. Despite the challenges of this period, Tod had an incredibly fruitful experience as she enthusiastically experimented with the medium. This unforgiving medium has enabled the artist to be more

Signed and dated 1985 with inventory notations by the artist verso

depicting his cherished muse with sincere and candid admiration

Mead's work synthesized European Modernism and mid-century American abstraction

like many of this era

Acting as more than just a sculpture

the title "Books for the Paris Review" does not allude to aspects of his daily life (such as a meal eaten

he created a significant body of work on paper

The two evolved and each surpassed the techniques embraced by the Abstract Expressionists

This diptych of a gravestone duo is a well-known motif in her oeuvre

and dated in pencil

Influenced by Jungian psychology and Eastern philosophy

Pachter’s works are widely sought-after and are an ideal selection for starting or continuing a collection of 20th-century Canadian art