News from 2005
“Combustions originelles” IN THE LORTIE MACM COLLECTION
26/10/2005 to 01/01/2006
Auteur :Inconnu
Date : 10/09/1994
“Combustion originelles No 28”, PE.97, Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, provenant de la Collection Gisèle Morin et Gérard Lortie. Photo MACM. Nous remercions le MACM pour nous avoir aimablement autorisés à reproduire cette photographie.” © MACM, pour la photo et ADAGP-Paris pour Marcel Barbeau.
From October 26 to January 8, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal exposes the “Combustions originelles No. 28” by Marcel Barbeau as part of an exhibition of drawings and works on paper from the permanent collection. This little color ink enhanced with Chinese ink come from the collection of the famous collector couple Gerard and Gisele Lortie. It has rarely been shown since its acquisition by the museum in the early seventies, due to the fragility of the material and support, and especially their sensitivity to light. For lovers of Barbeau, it is a unique opportunity to examine it in relation to the works of his contemporaries, including Jean-Paul Riopelle and Fernand Leduc. This ink is the first work of Marcel Barbeau purchased by the Lortie, probably on the occasion of his exhibition at the Agnes Lefort Gallery in March 1953.
A GREAT BARBEAU AT JOLIETTE FINE ART MUSEUM – PENSER GRAND (THINK BIG)
23/10/2005 to 01/09/2005
Auteur :Musée d’art de Joliette, Baudet Pascale, archivIste des collections
Date : 23/10/1994
Jeanne ou Le jardin de pierres. Huile sur toile, 175 x 274 cm, Montréal, 1960. Collection Musée d’art de Joliette, provenant de la collection Eugène Giossan. Photo aimablement transmise par le Musée d’art de Joliette et reproduite avec son aimable permission. © MAJ et ADAGP – Paris pour Marcel Barbeau.
From 23 October 2005 to 29 January 2006, we can see at the Museum d’art de Joliette a painting by Marcel Barbeau, “Andrée” or “Le jardin de pierres” (Stone Garden), as part of the exhibition “Penser grand” (Think Big). First in a series of two exhibitions by the museum entitle “Question d’échelle” (Question of scale), this series “examines the diverse ways in which artists have tackled the issue … the size of the work … at various times.” The rich collection of the Art Museum of Joliette, which includes numbers of large scale works from different periods of Canadian art and internationanal art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, promotes or suggests such questioning.
7 COLLAGES FROM MARCEL BARBEAU TO THE MUSÉE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUÉBEC
From 09/06/2005 to 23/10/2005
During the summer of 2005, one can see at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 7 collages from the early sixties by Marcel Barbeau as part of the exhibition ” Des oeuvres en série : Acquisitions récentes” This is the first time that most of these works are presented to the public.
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
A NEW BRONZE FOR MY BIRTHDAY
27/05/2005 to 22/09/2005
Under the watchful eye of its author Marcel Barbeau, artisans of the Foundry Art Blanchet et Cie completed polishing and the patina of the sculpture “Le marcheur de nuit” this Friday (October 14, 2005). This century-old foundry is located near the artist’s studio in Bagnolet.