Rita Letendre · Pierre Gauvreau · Lise Gervais · Serge Lemoyne
Jean-Paul Jérôme · Léon Bellefleur · Paul Vanier Beaulieu · Claude Tousignant
 Echoes, 1987 oil on canvas, 48 × 72" |
 Summer's Flight oil on paper, 20" × 26" |
 Zerdi, 1972 acrylic on canvas, 50" × 60" |
 Untitled #16, 1955 casein on paper, 9.25" × 11.3" |
 Untitled #20, 1962 ink on paper, 6.25" × 9.5" |
 Untitled #21, 1962 ink on paper, 6.25" ×9.5" |
 Bifurcation, 1991 acrylic on canvas, 48" × 40" |
 Le Sang de Tiennamen, 1989 acrylic on canvas, 72" × 48" |
 Debandade de l'intention, 2006 mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24" |
 L'Effusion, 1964 oil on canvas, 60" × 20" |
 Composition rouge, noir et ocre oil on canvas, 36" x 36" |
  Maison II, 1989 acrylic on canvas, 30" × 36" |
 Odyssée-Un, 1993 acrylic on canvas, 24" × 30' |
 Mandoline, 1986 acrylic on board, 12" × 20" |
 Fonds Marin, 1975 acrylic on linen, 13" × 22" |
 Bruges, 1990 acrylic on canvas, 16" × 16" |
 Foret sans Nom, 1962 oil on canvas, 25.5" × 32" |
 Hippocampe aux eneau d'etat, 1952 ink on paper, 16" × 18" |
 The Mage, 1994 gouache on paper, 11" × 9" |
 Paysage, 1957 watercolour, 19" × 25.5" |
 The Dance oil on board , 7.5" × 9.5" |
 Azo-Cobalt, 1975 (Diptych) acrylic on canvas, 30"diameter |
 Suite "P.M." 1917, #42, 2004 mixed media on paper, 31" x 47.5" |
 Quinacridone-Cobalt, 1975 (Diptych) acrylic on cavnas, 48" diameter |
Les Automatistes – Biography
When painter Paul-Émile Borduas was introduced to the writings of the French poet André Breton, he was inspired by the poet's écriture automatique. Borduas then transferred these ideas onto the painting surface, using spontaneity and shunning the use of preconception. Les Automatiste, as a movement, was created when Borduas showed a number of these spontaneous paintings, done in gouache, at the Ermitage Théâtre in Montréal.
Running from April 25th to May 2nd 1942, the exhibition gained Borduas a few followers, most notably: Marcel Barbeau, Jean Paul Riopelle and Roger Fauteux, who were all his students at the École du Meuble. Other followers included: Pierre Gauvreau and Fernand Leduc from Montreal’s École des beaux-arts and Jean-Paul Mousseau from the Collège Notre-Dame. The new group met in Borduas's studio, there they discussed a wide variety of issues disapproved of by the church, such as Marxism, surrealism and psychoanalysis.