Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Composition
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Image View:
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Detail, center, showing thick impasto
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Creator:
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Fernand Leduc (Canadian painter, 1916-2014)
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Location:
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exhibition: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada)
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Location Note:
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179 Grande Allée Ouest; part of exhibition, Fernand Leduc, Painter of Light (June 24, 2014-February 23, 2020)
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GPS:
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+46.798889-71.224722
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Date:
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1954 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian; French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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nonrepresentational art
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-LEDUC-COM-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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