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Pierre Gauvreau

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Pierre Gauvreau
Born
Pierre Saint-Mars Gauvreau

(1922-08-23)23 August 1922
Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Died7 April 2011(2011-04-07)(aged 88)
Educationl'École des beaux-arts de Montréal
Known forpainter
Spouse(s)Madeline Arbour, Janine Carreau

Pierre Gauvreau(23 August 1922 – 7 April 2011)[1]was aQuébécoispainter and writer who also worked in film and television production.

Career

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He was born inMontreal,and enrolled at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts de Montréalin 1937, today part ofUQAM.He became a member of theContemporary Art Societyin 1939.[2]Gauvreau served overseas with the Canadian Army and on his return to Montreal, went back to the École des Beaux-Arts for two more years of study.[2]He was associated with Quebec artistic dissident groupLes Automatistes,showing his work in the first Automatist exhibition in Canada in 1946.[3]The second Automatist show took place in his mother's apartment, the home he shared with his brother,Claude Gauvreau,a writer, and it was at this exhibition that the group was first referred to as theAutomatistes.[3]He became a signatory to theRefus globalmanifesto, which he typed and printed in his apartment.[4]The publication contained reproductions of his recent paintings.[3]

Gauvreau worked in various aspects of television production during the 1950s. He was best known in French-Canada for his popular series,Temps d'une paix.During a stint at theNational Film Board,he also producedClaude Jutra's 1971 classic,Mon Oncle Antoine.[4]He took a break from painting during the 1960s until 1975. In the 1990s he began experimenting with new techniques, including spray paint. He continued to paint in 2005, true to his Automatist beginnings.[3]His work has been described as gestural and calligraphic and his later work as looking lace-like.[3]Selected collections include theNational Gallery of Canada,Ottawa;[5]theMontreal Museum of Fine Arts;[6]theMusée national des beaux-arts du Québec,Québec;[7]and many other galleries, including theRobert McLaughlin Gallery,[8]Oshawa.

Gauvreau's career was the subject of aCharles Binamédocumentary,l'obligation de la liberté,and a biography. One of his works,The Bottom of the Closet,was reproduced on a 45-cent postage stamp in 1998 for a set of seven stamps for the Automatistes.[3][9]

Gauvreau died on 7 April 2011 of heart failure at the age of 88.[10][4]

Awards and recognition

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  • 1990:Prix Gemeaux,Grand Prix for his film and television work
  • 1995:le Prix Louis-Philippe-Hébert

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Pierre Gauvreau s'éteint"(in French).Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.8 April 2011.Retrieved9 April2011.
  2. ^abMacDonald, Colin S. (1968).A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 2(Thirdt ed.). Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publishing.Retrieved16 June2021.
  3. ^abcdefGagnon, François-Marc (2010)."Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatistes". The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century.Foss, Brian, Paikowsky, Sandra, Whitelaw, Anne (eds.). Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press. p. 147ff.ISBN978-0-19-542125-5.OCLC432401392.
  4. ^abc"Pierre Gauvreau helped launch Quebec's Quiet Revolution".The Globe and Mail.20 April 2011.Retrieved14 December2023.
  5. ^"Pierre Gauvreau".www.gallery.ca.National Gallery of Canada.Retrieved17 June2021.
  6. ^"Pierre Gauvreau".www.mbam.qc.ca.Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.Retrieved17 June2021.
  7. ^"Collection".collections.mnbaq.org.Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.Retrieved17 June2021.
  8. ^"Collection".rmg.minisisinc.com.Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.Retrieved17 June2021.
  9. ^"The Automatistes, Pierre Gauvreau".postagestampguide.com/.Canada Post.Retrieved16 June2021.
  10. ^La Presse Canadienne (8 April 2011)."Le réalisateur, auteur et peintre Pierre Gauvreau est décédé".Le Soleil(in French).Retrieved9 April2011.

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