Availability: This item sold. Jean-Philippe Dallaire 1916-1965 is best known for his festive paintings populated by strange and macabre people. In his work, the real and the imaginary intermingle in a world of form and colour. Critics have described Dallaire as a man who lived in an air of mystery, in a private world with his own landscape and climate, its architecture and its people. Dallaire was a representational painter despite an interest for abstraction. He played a leading role as a precursor in the return of figure painting in Canada at the end of the 60s. In 1959, Dallaire returned to France where he spent the last years of his life in Vence. The works from this period show a very personal approach to modernism. They are characterized by their festive air, and highly schematized forms and rich colours. Dallaire discovered the liberating qualities of abstraction. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Jean Dallaire please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item sold. Ulysse Comtois, sculptor and painter 1931-1999. Studied at Ecole des beaux-arts de Montreal, close contact with the Automatistes and married painter Rita Letendre. Famous for his kinetic aluminum sculptures of the 1960s. If you are interested in buying or selling works of art by Ulysse Comtois please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is for sale. Paul Emile-Borduas 1905-1960 Leader of the Automatiste group. In 1942 Borduas exhibited a group of surrealist gouaches showing the influence of Alfred Pellan. In 1946 and 1947 Borduas and the Automatiste group held two important exhibitions in Montreal at 1257 Rue Amherst in Montreal and 75 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest in Montreal then at Galerie du Luxembourg in Paris. In 1948 the launch of the manifesto Refus Global was held at the bookstore of Henri Tranquille in Montreal in the second week of August. In 1953 Borduas spent the summer in Provencetown, Mass. Then moved on to NYC where he stayed until 1955 when he then moved to Paris until his death in 1960. If you are interested in buying or selling works of art by Paul Emile-Borduas please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is available for sale. Fernand LEDUC Born 1916 trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal from 1938 to 1943. Joint signer of the manifesto Refus Global and played an important role within the group of Automatistes. In the end of the 40s, Leduc joined the Plasticiens and was a member of the Association of the Artists Non-representational artists of Montreal in 1956. Leduc works and lives in Montreal. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Fernand Leduc please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Pierre Gauvreau was born in Montreal in 1922. He entered the Ecole des beaux arts in 1939. His works immediately attracted the attention of the painter Paul-Emile Borduas, who invited him to join a group of intellectuals and artists who met in his studio. From 1943 to 1946, he served in the Canadian Army but continued to paint and show his works. Posted in England, he sent works to his brother Claude in April 1946 for l'exposition de la rue Amherst, a showing considered to be the premiere of the Automatistes group. Along with 15 other members of the group of intellectuals and artists he signed Refus global, a manifesto drawn up by Borduas in 1948. This manifesto which contested among others, Catholic values, unleashed a revolution of artistic creation in Canada. Pierre Gauvreau received the Prix Louis-Philippe-Hebert in 1975 for his pictorial oeuvre. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings Pierre Gauvreau produced between 1944 and 1962 please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Marcelle Ferron is Quebecs most important female artist, she met Paul-Emile Borduas and became an important member of the abstract art group the Automatistes in 1946. She signed the famous manifesto Refus global in 1948. Ferron moved to Paris in 1953 and spent the next 13 years building an international reputation exhibiting in Brussels, Paris, Mexico City, Milan, Munich, Sao Paulo, Rome, Turin and Zurich. She was expelled from France in 1966 for her political actions and returned to Quebec ending her most important period for painting. Marcelle Ferron was awarded many honors including several firsts for a woman artist: Sao Paolo Biennial 1961, silver medal Prix Paul-Emile-Borduas 1983 Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Quebec, 2000 Her work is represented in important collections including: Agnes Etherington Centre, Kingston, Ont., Concordia University, Montreal, Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C., Hydro-Quebec, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Musee du Quebec Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Marcelle Ferron produced between 1945 and 1964 please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is sold. Marcel BARBEAU 1925- Biography: 1942-1947 studied with Paul-Emile Borduas at the Ecole du meuble de Montreal 1948 Signs the Refus Global manifesto with Magdeleine ARBOUR, Marcel BARBEAU, 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 now lives in Paris during the winter and in Montreal in the summer months. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings Marcel BARBEAU produced before 1970 please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is sold. Born in Montreal in 1939, Jacques Hurtubise has exhibited widely, most notably at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and The Vancouver Art Gallery. His work can be found in the permanent collections of many institutions including The Art Gallery of Ontario and The National Gallery. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Jacques Hurtubise please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is sold. 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. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Lise GERVAIS please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Jean McEwen 1923-1999. Trained as a pharmacist, but his real avocation was painting. First a figurative painter, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he was deeply affected by Refus global writer and painter Paul-Emile Borduas and his followers. Worked in Paris from 1951 to 1953, where he came into contact with the exciting new abstract expressionist painters, many of them American expatriates. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Jean Mc Ewen please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Jean-Paul Mousseau studied painting at the age of thirteen while at the College Notre-Dame in Montreal under Frere Jerome (1940-45). He became a student of Paul-Emile Borduas at the Ecole du Meuble, Montreal. He was a member of the group of painters known as the Automatistes. In 1948, he was one of the signatories of the Refus global manifesto. He was a founding member of the Association on Non-Figurative Artists of Montreal. He designed murals for the Hydro Quebec building and the Peel Metro in Montreal. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings, sculpture or drawings by Jean-Paul Mousseau please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is for sale. Harold Barling Town graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1945 then worked as a commercial graphic artist. Later he worked in many mediums successfully including: collage, painting, printmaking and sculpture. He is best known for his fine abstract expressionist paintings of the 1950s, the "single autographic prints" of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his snap paintings of the 1970s. . If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Harold Town painted between 1949 and 1975, please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is for sale. Ray studied in London at the Slade School of Art, in 1946 moved to Hamilton and became friendly with Hortense Gordon in 1949. By 1952 Mead was living in Toronto working as a commercial artist for the MacLaren Advertising Company, he was then transferred by his company to Montreal in 1958. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Ray Mead please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Rita LETENDRE 1928- Automatiste, Painter, Muralist, and Printmaker. Born in Drummondville to a Quebecois mother and a father of Aboriginal origin, she is the eldest of a family of seven children. In 1941, she followed her parents to Montreal and took care of her brothers and sisters before working as a waitress and starting, at the age of 19, studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts. Close friends with Paul-Emile Borduas and the automatiste group. The exhibition La matiere chante in 1954, was a turning point for Letendre; it made her known in the art world and she went on to become one of Canadas most important abstract painters. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Rita LETENDRE please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com

Availability: This item is for sale. John Meredith ( Smith ) 1933-2000 OCA. Born in Fergus, Ont., brother William Ronald who was a founding member of Painters Eleven back in the early 1950s, and the first Canadian artist to make an impact in New York. ( For separate and private reasons, both brothers decided to be known as artists by their first two given names, rather than their surname; with both in the public eye, it turns out to have been a good idea. ) Drawing is central and crucial to Merediths work, developing a personal calligraphic vocabulary, malleable, palpable orbs and stretched, torn, tactile lines that speaks equally to the artists concern with basic forms and everybodys visceral unconscious. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings or drawings by John Meredith please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com

Availability: This item is sold. Henriette FAUTEUX-MASSE 1924-2005 Largely self-taught, her first foray into the arts took the form of dance and performance but, at the age of 17, a friend offered her his easel, stool, and cast models. Initially interested in this equipment purely for its decorative value, she soon gave up dance and began painting seriously. Her artistic education began with three trips to New York City (1946-48), where she spoke with fellow artists and visited museums. In 1951, she was awarded a scholarship from the Quebec government and travelled to Paris, where she received her first formal training under artist Andre Lhote. Upon her return home, she spent five years painting by herself in an effort to refine her particular abstract style. She participated in several group shows both in Canada and abroad, including The Winnipeg Show (1959), the International Painting Competition at Granby, Quebec (where she won first prize), and exhibits in Paris at the Musee d'art moderne and the Salon des femmes peintres. A founding member of the Conseil de la peinture (from 1966), she was also a member of the Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montreal (1957-60). Her work can be found in the National Gallery of the Canada and the Musee du Quebec. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings Henriette FAUTEUX-MASSE produced between 1950 and 1970 please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is sold. 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. Lives in Paris since 1958 but returns to St. Isidore de Beauce in Quebec every year to paint. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings Marcella Maltais painted between 1955 and 1963 please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com

Availability: This item is for sale. Paterson Ewen was born on April 7, 1925 in Montreal. Studied drawing at McGill under John Lyman after his discharge from the Canadian Army in 1946. Married Quebec Automatiste painter, sculptor and dancer Francoise Sullivan in 1949. Finished art courses at MMFA under Arthur Lismer, Goodridge Roberts and Jacques de Tonnancour. In 1952 spent the summer in St. Adele with Jean-Paul Mousseau. 1955 traveled to New York with Molinari and visited with Borduas in his New York studio. By 1966 was living in Molinaris studio in Montreal. 1968 Moved to London Ontario. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Paterson Ewen please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com

Availability: This item is on hold. Jean Paul Riopelle 1923-2002. Enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal 1942, then in at the Ecole du Meuble, graduating in 1945. There he studied with Paul-Emile Borduas, a teacher who was extremely dedicated to his students and gave them a great deal of freedom. It was under Borduas direction that Riopelle made his first abstract painting. Borduas and several of his students, including Riopelle, formed a group that worked, socialized and exhibited together (1942-45). The group became known as the Automatistes for their spontaneous method of painting, which drew on the subconscious as a source. In 1946 Riopelle first travelled to France, where he would return and settle the following year. In 1948 Borduas authored the manifesto Refus global, which was signed by a number of his students, including Riopelle. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings, drawings or sculpture Jean Paul Riopelle produced between 1944 and 1970 please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com

Availability: This item is sold. Montreal Painters Group the Plasticiens, ( first wave ) Louis Belzile, Jauran ( Rodolphe de Repentigny ), Jean-Paul Jerome and Fernand Toupin. On February 10, 1955, at L'Echourie the Montreal bar and cafe used by the automatists and other Montreal artists for exhibitions, Louis Belzile, Jauran ( Rodolphe de Repentigny art critic and artist ), Jean-Paul Jerome and Fernand Toupin launched the Manifeste des Plasticiens a document rejecting the painting of the automatists as being to landscape in feeling and that true abstraction should be geometric. While this early period produced works that received immediate critical acclaim, abstraction had a very small market in Quebec and indeed in the rest of Canada. Only a small quantity of work was produced and even less survives today making these daring and pioneering works extremely rare. The second wave of artists who ascribed to geometric abstraction in Montreal were Guido Molinari, Claude Tousignant, Jean Goguen, Fernand Leduc and Denis Juneau. If you are interested in selling or buying works of art by the Plasticen group please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com