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| Léon Bellefleur |
| Untitled - The Child, 1945 |
| Oil on canvas 13 1/2" x 11 1/2" (Sold) |
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| Autre envol, 1982 |
| Oil on canvas 46" x 35" (Sold) |
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| Léon Bellefleur |
| Les neiges pollen, 1956 |
| Oil on canvas 27 1/2" x 33 1/4" (Sold) |
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Léon Bellefleur Biography
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Leon Bellefleur was born in Montreal on February 8th, 1910. In 1926 he enrolled himself at the Ecole Normale Jacques-Cartier and obtained, three years later, his diploma in pedagogy. This permitted him to be hired for twenty-five years as a teacher by the Catholic School Commission of Montreal. From 1929 to 1938 he attended evening drawing classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Montreal.
As of 1954 he frequently went for long periods of time to Europe, especially to Provence and Paris. Heavily affected by surrealism since he became friendly with Pellan and Giguère, he met with Breton several times. He studied etching with Friedlander and lithography at the Desjobert Studio. The quebecois poets - from the Hexagone generation to the Editions du Noirot generation - have often asked him images to accompany their poems.
Exhibitions at Klinkhoff
1977, 1985
Solo Exhibitions
Maison des Compagnons, Montreal, 1946;
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (with Fritz Brandtner), 1950;
Agnès Lefort Gallery, Montreal, 1951, 1955;
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (with Anne Kahane), 1954;
Galerie l’Actuelle, Montreal, 1956;
Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal, 1957, 1958, 1960;
Dresdnere Gallery, Montreal, 1961;
Here and Now Gallery (Dorothy Cameron Gallery), Toronto, 1961;
"A la gloire de la main" (To the glory of the hand), Claude Haeffely Gallery, Montreal (with Roland Giguère and Gerard Tremblay), 1963;
Galerie du Siècle, Montreal, 1964, 1966;
Galerie Connaître, Paris, 1965;
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 1966, 1968, 1971;
Galerie l’Atelier, Quebec, 1967;
Blue Barn Gallery, Ottawa, 1967;
National Gallery of Canada Ottawa (this retrospective will also be exhibited at the London Public Library and Art Museum and at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal), 1968;
Galerie Michel Champagne, Quebec, 1969;
Damkjar Gallery, Hamilton (with Jack Shadbolt), 1972;
Upper Street Gallery, London, 1973;
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton (with Shadbolt and Michael Forster), 1974;
Galerie Les Deux "B", Saint Antoine sur Richelieu, Quebec, 1975, 1979;
Internationale Gallery, Ribe, Danemark, 1975;
Galerie Charlotte Frenette, Quebec (with Giguère and Tremblay), 1981;
Frederick Palardy Gallery, Saint Lambert, Quebec, 1982;
Group Exhibitions
Contemporary Art Society, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948;
Canadian Art Exhibition, André-Grasset College, Montreal, 1944;
Spring Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (from now on Bellefleur will be included in nearly all the Museum spring exhibitions), 1947;
Travelling exhibition in Belgium, organized by the Association for Artistic and Intellectual Progress of Wallonie, 1950;
Second International COBRA Exhibition, Liere, 1951;
First Biennial Exhibition, Sao Paulo, 1951;
Recent Quebec Paintings, travelling show in Canada and the United States, organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1951;
Canadian Group of Painters, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1952;
International Phases Exhibition, Galerie Creuse, Paris, 1955;
International Engraving and Drawing Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland, 1956;
Association of Non-Figurative Artists of Montreal, Helene de Champlain Restaurant, Montreal, 1956;
Second Biennial of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1957;
International Engraving Exhibition, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1957;
"Trente-cinq peintres dans l’actualité", Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1957;
"Twelve Painters of Montreal", St. Helen’s Island, 1957;
Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (with Borduas, Mousseau and Riopelle), 1957;
"Four Painters of Quebec", Art Gallery of Toronto (with Fernand Leduc, Lemieux and Picher), 1957;
Canada Pavilion, Universal Exhibition of Brussels, 1958;
Third Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1959;
International Exhibition for the Guggenheim Honours, Guggenheim Museum, New York (with Alleyn, Borduas, Riopelle and Town), 1960;
Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, 1961;
"Canadian Art", Galerie Arditti, Paris (with Alleyn, Borduas, Ferron, Lefebvre and Riopelle); this exhibition was also shown in Milan, Zurich and Turin, 1962;
"Canadian Modern Art", Spolete, Italy, 1962;
"Surrealism in Canadian Painting", London Public Library and Art Museum, 1964;
"Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1967;
"Panorama of the Art in Quebec, 1940-1966", Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, 1967;
"Three generations of Quebecois art, 1940-1950-1960", Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, 1976;
"Tendances actuelles au Québec", Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, 1978;
"The Contemporary Art Society, Montreal 1939-1948", travelling exhibition organized by the Edmonton Art Gallery, 1980;
Awards and Honours
Jessie Dow Prize, Spring Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1951.
Prize for painting, Commonwealth Contest, Vancouver, 1956. Prize for drawing, Second Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1957.
Scholarship for research by the Arts Council, 1958. Canada, represented by Alleyn, Bellefleur, Borduas, Riopelle and Town, received the Guggenheim Prize for the best national presentation, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1960.
Scholarship for research by the Arts Council, 1968.
Borduas Prize, Government of Canada, 1977.
Public Collections
The National Gallery of Canada
The Contemporary Art Museum
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Quebec
Art Gallery of Ontario
London Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
Tel-Aviv Museum.
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