Lise Gervais
{{Short description|Canadian painter and sculptor}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|9|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Saint-Césaire, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|4|30|1933|9|2|df=y}}
| death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| education = École des beaux-arts de Montréal
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| movement = Automatistes
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Lise Gervais (1933–1998) was a Canadian abstract painter and sculptor. She was president of the Conseil des Artistes Peintres du Quebec in 1983 and 1984.{{cite web|title=Lise Gervais|url=http://canadianartgroup.com/post-war-artists/lise-gervais/|website=The Canadian Art Group|accessdate=23 March 2018}}
Biography
Gervais was born in Saint-Césaire, Quebec on 2 September 1933.{{cite web|title=Lise Gervais: Canadian, 1933-1998|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/lise-gervais|website=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=23 March 2018}} She studied painting and sculpture at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.{{cite web|title=Lise Gervais (1933 - 1998)|url=https://www.mayberryfineart.com/artist/Lise_Gervais|website=Mayberry Fine Art|accessdate=23 March 2018}} Her teachers included Jacques de Tonnancour and :fr:Stanley Cosgrove, and sculpture with Louis Archambault.{{cite web|title=Gervais, Lise|url=http://www.galerielacorniche.com/en/gervais-lise/|website=La Corniche Gallery|accessdate=23 March 2018}}
In 1961 she had her first one-woman show at Galerie Denyse Delrue in Montreal. Her style is associated with the Automatistes and Paul-Émile Borduas.
For many years she taught art in Montreal at the Ecole des beaux-arts, the Université du Québec, and Concordia University.
In 1983 she was elected president of the Conseil des Artistes-Peintres du Quebec.
Exhibitions
- 1961 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- 1964 Galerie du Siecle, Montreal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- 1967 Musee du Quebec; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- 1970 Galerie du Montreal; Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal; Musee Rodin, Paris
- 1983 Bishops University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, PQ
- 1990 Galerie d’Art du College Edouard-Montpetit, Longueuil
- 1993 Galerie d'art Contemporains Montreal PQ, curated by Stanley Borenstein, Karina Holosko, Peter G Pereira
- 2003 McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London
References
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External links
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/lise-gervais/ images of Lise Gervais' paintings] on ArtNet
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Category:20th-century Canadian women artists