Yves Gaucher (1934–2000) began painting in 1964 after being influenced by work of American artists Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. He began working in hard-edge abstraction along with Guido Molinari and Claude Tousignant in his suite of Square Dance paintings (1965). Gaucher represented Canada at the Venice Biennale along with Alex Colville and Sorel Etrog in 1966. In the following years, Gaucher’s work was characterized by large canvases exploring the subtle interaction between colour beginning with his Grey on Grey paintings before moving onto more vibrant, colourful works.
G - BL - N – R (1993) is made up of three separate canvases, and we can see the evidence of his earlier works on a smaller scale. The interaction of colour from one panel to the next and the truncated triangle on the left panel speaks to his Jericho paintings of the mid-1970s.