Fernand Leduc

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Fernand Leduc
Leduc in 1995
Born(1916-07-04)July 4, 1916
Viauville, Montreal, Quebec
DiedJanuary 28, 2014(2014-01-28) (aged 97)
Known forpainter
SpouseThérèse Renaud

Fernand Leduc (4 July 1916 – 28 January 2014) was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc participated in many expositions in Canada and France. He was born in Viauville, Montreal, Quebec.

Biography

In 1938 Leduc started his studies at the

Jean Bazaine
, who was at the time producing works which could be described as abstracted landscapes. This contact was an influence on Leduc's works of the early 1950s.

He returned from Paris in 1953. With Paul-Émile Borduas, the theoretician of the Automatist group, he was the one who maintained the closest ties with the French surrealists. Leduc moved to a type of hard-edge abstraction in 1955. He founded the Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montréal (Association des artistes non-figuratifs de Montréal) in 1956. He experimented at that time with various forms of spontaneous and gestural nonfigurative painting, his works gradually becoming more involved with interactions and contrast of colours.

Leduc returned to France in 1959 and stayed there until 1970, when he came back for two years to teach in Montréal. In 1970, the Centre culturel canadien in Paris in combination with the National Gallery of Canada held a travelling exhibition of 16 paintings done over a three-year period in which he used biomorphic abstraction.[1] In 1977 he received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award.[2] In 1979 he was awarded the Louis-Philippe Hébert Prize and the Paul-Émile Borduas Prize in 1988.

Leduc died of cancer in Montreal on January 28, 2014.[3]

Selected expositions

  • 1950–1951: Galerie Creuze, Paris
  • 1950: Cercle Universitaire, Montréal
  • 1955: Musée de Granby; lycée Pierre Corneille, Montréal
  • 1956: Galerie l'Actuelle, Montréal
  • 1958: Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montréal
  • 1959: Galerie Artek, Montréal
  • 1961: Délégation du Québec à Paris
  • 1962: Galerie Hautefeuille, Paris
  • 1963–1965: Galerie 60, Montréal
  • 1966: Musée du Québec; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal
  • 1970 Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris; Galerie III, Montréal; Exposition rétrospective de Fernand Leduc, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Musée du Québec; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Memorial University of Newfoundland, Saint-John; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; Université de Sherbrooke; The Robert Mc Laughin Gallery, Oshawa
  • 1972: Galerie Jolliet, Québec; Galerie III, Montréal
  • 1973: Tapestries Les 7 jours, Centre culturel canadien, Paris; Thielson Gallery, London, Ontario; Exposition itinérante à travers les provinces maritimes, Galerie III, Montréal
  • 1974: Tapestries Les 7 jours, Galerie Kostiner-Silvers, Montréal; Journées Canadiennes, Toulouse, France
  • 1975: Dizaine canadienne (Ten days over Canada), Lyon, France; Tapestries Les 7 jours, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario et York University, Toronto, Ontario; Michochromies, House of Canada, London, United Kingdom; Microchromies pastels, Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montréal
  • 1980: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Centre Canadien à Paris; Musée Municipal, Brest, France
  • 1984: Services Culturels du Québec, Paris
  • 1985: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres
  • 1986: Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle
  • 1997: Musée du Québec, Québec
  • 2001: Galerie Graff, Montréal
  • 2011: Galerie Michel-Ange, Montréal

Sources

Suggested reading

  • Jean-Pierre Duquette, Fernand Leduc.

References

  1. ISBN 9781553653943
    . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Prizes". Canada Council. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Fernand Leduc, Quebec abstract painter, dies at 97", CBC News

External links

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