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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Composition
Image View:
Detail, center, showing thick impasto
Creator:
Fernand Leduc (Canadian painter, 1916-2014)
Location:
exhibition: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
179 Grande Allée Ouest; part of exhibition, Fernand Leduc, Painter of Light (June 24, 2014-February 23, 2020)
GPS:
46.798889-71.224722
Date:
1954 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian; French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
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. This is one of his earlier works when he was still concerned with gestural Automatism and used thick impasto. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-LEDUC-COM-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Composition