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Fernand Leduc

Fernand Leduc (1916 - 2014) was active/lived in Quebec / Canada, France.  Fernand Leduc is known for Abstract expressionist painting, printmaking, tapestry design.

Fernand Leduc is a painter, printmaker, tapestry designer (1), art theoretician and educator.  He is also a major figure in Canadian art: a senior leader of the Montreal art scene in the 1940's and 1950s; an associate of Alfred Pellan (2), Paul-Emile Borduas, Guido Molinari, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau and most of the other mid 20th-century art legends of Quebec; and, in 2010, he is the oldest surviving (and still working) former member of the Automatistes* and signatory of the Refus Global*.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, which is currently his home, Leduc spent much of his life, since 1959, in France and Italy; living in Paris, Chartres and Casano (3).

His mediums are oil, gouache*, pastel, acrylic, casein*, collage*, colored pencil, pen and ink, graphite, serigraph* and mixed mediums.  As an abstractionist his subjects are color, shape, and texture; the 'cerebral construction of paintings, order clarity and the effects of light on co   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12664 characters.]  Artist bio

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