Fernand Leduc

sans titre 1950

Oil on canvas

20 x 24 inches

Provenance: Jean Paul Riopelle

Availability: SOLD

Biography:

In 1938 Leduc started his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal. Member of the Contemporary Arts Society. Leduc played a major role in forming the group known as the Les Automatistes, he signed the Refus Global manifesto. He moved to Paris with his wife Therese Renaud in 1946 he participated the exhibition Automatisme at the Galerie du Luxembourg. Founding member of the first phase Plasticiens group, moving to geometric abstraction in 1955. He founded the Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montreal (Association des artistes non-figuratifs de Montreal) in 1956. Leduc returned to France in 1959 and stayed there until 1970, when he came back for two years to teach in Montreal. In 1979 he was awarded the Louis-Philippe Hebert Prize and the Paul-Emile Borduas Prize in 1988. Leduc currently lives in Montreal. He recently received the Governor General's Award and the Order of Canada.