The Club of the collectors in visual arts of Quebec remembers Borduas on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its death

9/02/2010 to 22/02/2010

Author :Galerie Orange et Guy L’heureux
Date : 04/09/2008
Marcel Barbeau and Françoise Sullivan at the opening of the exhibition “Les Automatistes” at la Galerie Orange in Montreal.

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the painter and thinker Paul-Émile Borduas in Paris on February 22nd, 1960, Le club des collectionneurs (Club of the collectors) dedicated to the development of the knowledge on  visuel art  organizes a set of events to pay tribute to the leader of the automatist movement. In front of the silence of institutions about this anniversary mattering, Marc Bellemare, an art lover and CEO and founder of the Club of the collectors decided to take over with the cooperation of the director of the Gallery Lacerte, Louis Lacerte. Under the title ” Paul-Émile Borduas Automatiste and visionary “, they organized an exhibition of historic works of Borduas and his followers Automatists and a series of conferences.