Marcel Barbeau
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal
Exhibitions:
Group show, Agnes Lefort Gallery, Montreal, February 1957
The Automatist then and now, Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto, 1986
The Fifties, Galerie Don Stewart, Montreal, 1989
Achieving the Modern Canadian Abstract Painting and Design in the 1950s, Winnipeg Art Gallery and circulating 1992-1994.
Literature:
Karen Wilken, The automatists then and now , Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto, 1986. P. 9 and rep. p 24
R. McKaskell, Achieving the Modern: Canadian Abstract Painting and Design in the 1950s. WAG 1993. P49, illustrated in colour.
Availability: SOLD
Biography:
1942-1947 studied with Paul-Emile Borduas at the Ecole du meuble de Montreal. In 1948 Signs the Refus Global manifesto with Magdeleine ARBOUR, Bruno CORMIER, Claude GAUVREAU, Pierre GAUVREAU, Muriel GUILBAULT, Marcelle FERRON-HAMELIN, Fernand LEDUC, Therese LEDUC, Jean-Paul MOUSSEAU, Maurice PERRON, Louis RENAUD, Francoise RIOPELLE, Jean-Paul RIOPELLE and Francoise SULLIVAN and participates in all activities associated with the Automatist Movement during this time. 1962 Leaves for Paris, 1964 Lives in New York, 1978 Artist in Residence at Bishop's University, Lennoxville. Marcel Barbeau and his wife Ninon Gauthier now live in Montreal.
