Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Binary Chromatism Venice Red-Blue
Alternate Title:
Chromatisme binaire rouge de Venise-bleu
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Fernand Leduc (Canadian painter, 1916-2014)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2013.379
Location Note:
179 Grande Allée Ouest; part of exhibition, Fernand Leduc, Painter of Light (June 24, 2016-February 23, 2020)
GPS:
46.798889-71.224722
Date:
1964 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Color-field; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
114.7 cm (height) x 147.4 cm (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art
Description:
Fernand Leduc, born in Montreal, was a Québécois painter. He studied in Montreal, then he made contact with André Breton in New York in 1945 and joined him in Paris in 1947. In 1956, he and his friends (Pierre Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Françoise Sullivan) founded the Association of Non-Figurative Artists of Montreal, of which he became president. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-LEDUC-BCV-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Binary Chromatism Venice Red-Blue