Monday, November 11, 2024

Artist of the Day, November 11, 2024: Jean Paul Lemieux, a Québécois painter (#2154)

 Jean Paul Lemieux, (1904 – 1990) was one of the foremost painters of twentieth century Québec. He was born in Québec City, where he also died. He was raised in Québec City until 1916, when his family moved to Berkeley, California. In 1917, the family returned to Québec and settled in Montreal.

From 1926 to 1934, Jean Paul Lemieux studied under Edwin Holgate and others at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. In 1929, he traveled to Europe with his mother. In Paris, he studied advertising and art, frequents other artists. Lemieux took teaching positions from 1934, first at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, then in 1935 at the École du meuble (Furniture School). In 1937, he moved to Québec City and taught at the École des Beaux-Arts de Québec until his retirement in 1965.

In 1960, works by Lemieux along with those of Edmund Alleyn, Graham Coughtry, Frances Loring and Albert Dumouchel represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. Jean Paul Lemieux received several awards for his works, including the Louis-Philippe Hébert prize in 1971 and the Molson Prize for the Canada Council for the Arts in 1974. In 1968, he became a Companion of the Order of Canada. He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy. In 1997, he was posthumously made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Québec.

A set of postage stamps depicting three works by Lemieux, Self-portrait (1974), June Wedding (1972) and Summer (1959) were issued by Canada Post on Oct. 22, 2004. The stamps were released on the day that a retrospective of his work organized to recognize the centenary of the artist's birth opened at the National Gallery of Canada. A retrospective exhibition of his works from 1956 to 1979 took place at the Gallery Valentin in 2009.

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 Jean Paul Lemieux
Soleil d’après-midi, 1933

Les beaux jours, 1937
Lazare, 1941
Notre Dame protégeant Québec, 1942
Portrait de l’artiste à Beauport-Est, 1943
 La Fête-Dieu à Québec, 1944
Les Ursulines, 1951
Le Far West, 1955
L'orpheline, 1956
Le visiteur du soir, 1956
Terminus, 1961
Remembered, 1962
Les Parques, 1962
Moonlit Night, 1963
Julie et l’univers, 1965
L'émigrant,1965
L’été de 1914, 1965
Route 15, 1965
L'express, 1968
La conversation, 1968
Serie La petite poule d'eau, 1971
Country Club, 1972
La plage americaine, 1973
Portrait de la Reine, 1979
Equinoze d'automne, n.d.
La Mort par un clair matin, n.d.
La petite poule d’eau, n.d.
La Québécoise, n.d.
Mon pays c'est l'hiver, n.d.
Timbre pout Poste Canada
Timbre pout Poste Canada
Timbre pout Poste Canada

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