Marcelle MALTAIS (1933-)

Le noir et rouge
Signed and dated lower left M. Maltais
Oil on canvas, 1957
85 x 71 centimeters,  33 ½ x 28 inches.
Provenance: Private collection Montreal.
Exhibited: Marcelle Maltais Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal Galerie XII Nov. 21st. - Dec. 8th. 1957.

Availability: Sold

Biography:

Marcelle Maltais 1933-

Biography:

Marcella Maltais was born on October 9, 1933 in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Studied painting in Quebec with Jean Dallaire and Jean-Paul Lemieux, from the age of fourteen years, during the fifties, in Montreal along with Rita Letendre and Automatistes. Influenced by Borduas and Riopelle. She lives in Paris but returns every year to spend time in Beauce Quebec.

Solo Exhibitions

1955 Palais Montcalm, Quebec

1956 Greenwich Art Gallery, Toronto

1957 Galerie L'Actuelle, Montreal

1957 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

1958 Social Centre of the University of Montreal

1958 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal

1960 Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal

1961 Nees Morphes Gallery, Athenes

1962 Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal

1963 Dorothy Cameron Gallery, Toronto

1964 Galerie Camille Hebert, Montreal

1966 Galerie Soixante, Montreal

1972 Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris

1978 Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris

1989 Lavalin Art Gallery, Montreal

Group Exhibitions

1958-67 Spring Exhibition, Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Canadian painting biennial, Winnipeg Show.

1959 Aspects of Canadian painting, New York.

1960 Guggenheim competition.

1961 Stratford Festival.

1962 Festival des Deux-Mondes, Spoleto, Italy.

1964 Galerie Arnaud, Paris.

Collections:

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

Musee d'art de Joliette.

Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec.

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