Rita Letendre

Canadian | 1928 - 2021

Rita Letendre was a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1928. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Palm Springs Art Museum have featured Rita Letendre's work in the past.Rita Letendre's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 117 USD to 356,124 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 356,124 USD for Reflet d'Eden, sold at Heffel Vancouver in 2022. In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 16,164 USD, while their works on paper have sold for an average of 2,855 USD.Rita Letendre has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2024. The artist died in 2021.

Featured for Sale

Germition ,1961

By Rita Letendre

Heffel Vancouver

Le Cirque ,1957

By Rita Letendre

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Printemps ,1960

By Rita Letendre

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Rencontre en flammé ,1962

By Rita Letendre

+133%

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Reflet d'avril ,1960

By Rita Letendre

+306%

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Le Cirque ,1957

By Rita Letendre

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Tornade joyeuse ,1962

By Rita Letendre

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Germition ,1961

By Rita Letendre

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Recent Auction Results

Maadim ,1980

By Rita Letendre

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Octobre ,2008

By Rita Letendre

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Itar ,1979

By Rita Letendre

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Current Exhibitions

Moments in Modernism

AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario

Toronto | Ontario | Canada

Jun 14,2024 - Sep 01,2025

Visions And Views: Landscape And Abstraction In The Firestone Collection Of Canadian Art

Ottawa Art Gallery

Ottawa | Ontario | Canada

Feb 11,2024 - Jan 11,2026

Past Exhibitions

Becoming Modern: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery鈥檚 Canadian Collection

Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Fredericton | New Brunswick | Canada

Apr 08,2024 - May 01,2025

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Articles

ArtDaily 06/10/2024

Today, the Art Gallery of Ontario announces exhibitions on view in 2025. Highlighting the depth and breadth of the AGO Collection, the museum presents 15 exhibitions featuring artists from Toronto and around the world.

The Globe and Mail 18/07/2024

The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto owns one major canvas by the celebrated American abstractionist Mark Rothko.

ArtDaily 24/06/2024

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, from Toronto to S茫o Paulo, painters began rejecting figuration and perspective, embracing colour, scale and line, in pursuit of a more expressive and immediate experience.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Seeking to express the full energy of life and harness in her powerful gestures an intense spiritual force, Letendre worked with various materials including oils, pastels, and acrylics, using her hands,... 鈥�
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AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario

鈥� ..She is best known for her hard-edge abstract works from the 60s and 70s, some of which were presented as epic wall murals in public locations in Toronto... 鈥�
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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

鈥� ..For Letendre, art represents freedom and 鈥渆scape from the here and now ... 鈥�
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Gallery Gevik

鈥� ..Often the sole female artist in their group shows, she broke away from their approach to painting, finding it restrictive... 鈥�
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AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario