Alan Glass

Born in Montreal on 30 June 1932, Glass studied at the École beaux-arts de Montréal from 1949 and 1952 and worked in the studio of Alfred Pellan. He received a scholarship from the French government in 1952 and lived in Paris while traveling through Central Europe and the Middle East. During this time, he exhibited at the Galerie Le Terrain Vague, where he met André Breton. From 1968 to 1969, he journeyed through India and Nepal, particularly in the state of Sikkim. In 1962, he first traveled to Mexico.{{cite news |last=Léger|first=Marthe|date=8 May 1965|title=L'art en boîte|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Perspectives|location= |access-date=}} In the 1970s, he began living through Mexico and Quebec.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=23 August 2017|title=Alan Glass et Solange Legendre : des amis indéfectibles|trans-title= |url=https://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/08/23/alan-glass-solange-legendre-amis-indefectibles/|language=French|work=Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec|location= |access-date=18 January 2023}}

Glass died in Mexico City on 16 January 2023, at the age of 90.{{cite news |last=Fournier|first=Guy|date=17 January 2023|title=Je viens de perdre mon plus vieil ami|trans-title= |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2023/01/17/je-viens-de-perdre-mon-plus-vieil-ami|language=French|work=Le Journal de Montréal|location= |access-date=18 January 2023}}

• Galerie Le Terrain vague (1958){{cite news |last=Dufresne|first=Jean-V.|date=1958|title=Un jeune artiste canadien à Paris|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=La Presse|location= |access-date=}}
• Galerie du Siècle (1965){{cite journal|url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/va/1965-n40-va1201508/58416ac/|title=Alan Glass : Une oeuvre insolite|journal=Érudit|year=1965 |issue=40 |pages=40–45 |language=French|last1=Lasnier |first1=Michelle }}
• Galerie Antonio Souza (1972)
• Galerie de Montréal (1972){{cite news |last=Ouellet|first=Gaétan|date=1972|title=Sous le signe de l'alliance : Alan Glass|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Vie des arts|location= |access-date=}}
• Musée d'art moderne de Mexico (1976)
• Galerie Gilles Corbeil (1977){{cite news |last= |first= |date=29 January 1977|title=Alan Glass|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=La Presse|location= |access-date=}}
• Galeria Pecanins (1982)
• Galerie du Grand Théâtre (1985)
• Claude Bernard Gallery (1991){{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/27336565|title=Alan Glass, 1971-1991 : November 14-December 28, 1991|work=WorldCat}}
• Galería López Quiroga (2003)
• Museo de Arte Moderno (2008){{cite news |last=Morrissette|first=Brigitte|date=4 December 2008|title=Hiver surréaliste à Mexico|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Le Devoir|location= |access-date=}}

• Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!/search?artist=Glass,%20Alan$Alan%20Glass|title=Alan Glass|work=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
• Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris{{cite web|url=https://www.mam.paris.fr/fr/collections-en-ligne#/artwork/180000000007681?filters=query%3Aalan%20glass&page=1&layout=grid&sort=by_author|title=Alan Glass|work=Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris|language=French}}
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600002392|title=Glass, Alan|work=Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec|language=French}}

• Alan Glass (2010)

• A room named in his honor at the Vieux Presbytère de Saint‑Bruno-Montarville (2016)
• Medal of Fine Arts of the Secretariat of Culture of Mexico (2017)

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