Paul-Émile Borduas
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Paul-Émile Borduas was a Canadian artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Borduas
Paul Émile Borduas
Paul-Émile Borduas
Place Paul-Émile Borduas seen from rue Saint-Denis, ending at the National Library and Archives of Quebec
Composition 11, ca 1957. Exhibited Dec. 2011 at the Big Bang exhibition Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
John Goodwin Lyman
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John Goodwin Lyman was an American-born Canadian modernist painter active largely in Montreal, Quebec. In the 1930s he did much to promote modern art in Canada, founding the Contemporary Art Society i
Paul-Émile Borduas
…with the same tastes and the same need for action, he finally discovered a stimulating intellectual and social environment." In 1938, he encountered John Lyman, a Montreal painter and critic, at the first exhibition of one of Borduas' paintings. Lyman encouraged Borduas' involvement with the Contemporary Arts…
John Goodwin Lyman
Landscape, Bermuda. (c. 1914) Oil on canvas, 55.4 x 45.9 cm. In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada