Lise Gervais
Saturne
Oil on canvas 1961
69 x 69 cm, x 27 x 27 in.
Provenance:
Private collection, Paris, France.
Exhibited:
La Peinture Canadienne Moderne, Spoleto, Italy 1962.
Literature:
La Peinture Canadienne Moderne 25 Annees De Peinture Au Canada- francaise, catalogue d'exposition, 1962 pg. 153.
Availability: Sold
Biography:
Lise GERVAIS 1933-1998 studied painting at Ecole des beaux-arts de Montreal, with Jacques de Tonnancour and Stanley Cosgrove, and sculpture with Louis Archambeault (1950-54). For sixteen years, she taught at Ecole des beaux-arts de Montreal, at Universite du Quebec at Montreal and at Concordia University. In 1983 and 1984, she was president of the Conseil des Artistes Peintres du Quebec. Her paintings are steeped in the traditions of Paul-Emile Borduas and the Automatistes.
Exhibitions:
1961 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1964 Galerie du Siecle, Montreal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1967 Musee du Quebec; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1970 Galerie du Montreal; Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal; Musee Rodin,
Paris
1983 Bishops University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, PQ
1990 Galerie d'Art du College Edouard-Montpetit, Longueil
2003 McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London
Collections:
National Gallery of Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, N.Y.
Concordia University, Montreal
Queen's University, Kingston
Hart House, University of Toronto
York University, Toronto
Samuel Zacks Collection, Toronto
Samuel Bronfman Collection, Montreal
Charles Delloye Collection, Paris
Universite de Montreal Collection
Musee d'art de Joliette.
