Marcelle Ferron 1924 - 2001

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 CAD

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Description

Marcelle Ferron
Untitled
1956

signed and dated lower left FERRON 56; signed on the stretcher and titled and dated on a label on the reverse
oil on canvas
54.0 by 73.0 cm.
21 ¼ by 28 ¾ in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Quebec City

Literature

A.K. Prakash, Independent Spirits, Early Canadian Artists, Richmond Hill, 2008, p.190

Catalogue Note

Born in Louiseville, near Trois- Rivière, Marcelle Ferron was a co-signer of the famed Refus Global and rapidly became an integral member of Quebec's avant-garde movement.

A self-proclaimed rebel, Ferron left the École des Beaux Arts de Québec disappointed by the school's conservative attitude towards modernism. In 1946, an encounter with Paul-Émile Borduas cemented her ambition to explore her liberal views through abstraction.

Ferron lived in Paris from 1953 to 1965, a time that saw a transformation in her style. In Paris, she found her vivacious candy-coloured palette and a strong and ordered command of the palette knife. During this period, Ferron began to use more white pigment and the result was a new-found luminosity that would come to embody her work as evidenced in this lot and lot 177.

Ash Prakash writes, "Ferron opened the way for a new generation of painters in Canada to free themselves from the restraints of the past."