Studio visit with:

Marcel Barbeau & Ninon Gauthier

Thursday, January 25, 2007


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Marcel Barbeau was born in Montreal on February 18th, 1925. Between 1942 and 1947, he studied painting and sculpture with Paul-Emile Borduas at the Ecole du Meuble in MontrĂ©al. At that time and until 1953, he regularly visited his master\’s studio where he met other young artists and intellectuals, all members of Les Automatistes. As a member of that major Canadian contemporary art movement, he participated in all exhibitions featuring the group and signed its manifesto, \”Total refusal\”.

From 1958 to 1974 and 1991 to 1996, he lived and worked in the United States and in Europe. Visiting New York (1951) and San Francisco (1957), he met with some artists from the Abstract Expressionist movement and the Pacific School. In Paris, he met again with Fernand Leduc from Les Automatistes group. In New York, Barbeau consorted with members of the french cinetic movement, GRAV (Groupe de recherche d\’art visuel).

In 1995, he received the Order of Canada as an officer. 

His works are in many private, public and corporate collections in Canada, in the United States and in Europe among which are: the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the British Museum (London), the Chrysler Art Gallery (Norfolk, Virginia), the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts (Lyon, France), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal), the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal), Quebec National Fine Arts Museum (Quebec), the Rose Art Museum,(Waltham, N.J.) and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).