Background
Perehudoff was born in Saint Paul"s Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on April 21, 1918, and was raised on a farm in the Doukhobor community of Bogdanovka, between the towns of Langham and Borden, Saskatchewan.
Perehudoff was born in Saint Paul"s Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on April 21, 1918, and was raised on a farm in the Doukhobor community of Bogdanovka, between the towns of Langham and Borden, Saskatchewan.
lieutenant was at one of these workshops in 1962 that he met New York art critic Clement Greenberg, who introduced him to Post-painterly Abstraction, which had an enormous impact upon his art and career. Perehudoff"s work has been represented in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Artist Due to failing eyesight, Perehudoff gave up painting around 2003-2004.
In November 2009, several of Perehudoff"s murals were successfully removed from the executive suite in the former Intercontinental Packers plant.
Perehudoff painted them in 1950, and the abstract silhouettes are considered the last remaining examples of purist cubist art from that period. Appraised at $250,000, the murals had been at risk as the plant was slated for demolition.
Ian Hodkinson, a retired art conservator, was brought in and used a special method to remove the acrylic paint from the plaster intact. The murals will remain in storage until the proposed Art Gallery of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon is built.
They will be displayed in a special antechamber, built to the same dimensions as the boardroom in which they first existed.
Perehudoff died on February 26, 2013 at age 94.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]
He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.