Marcelle Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec in 1924 and died in Montreal in 2001. After being expelled from the \u00c9cole des beaux-arts in Quebec City, where she had studied with Jean-Paul Lemieux, she settled in Montreal and became friendly with the artists in the Automatiste movement, who were moving towards abstract painting. A signatory of the 1948 Refus global manifesto, along with Paul-\u00c9mile Borduas, Jean Paul Riopelle, Fran\u00e7oise Sullivan, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Marcel Barbeau, and others, Marcelle Ferron established herself as one of Quebec\u2019s most important artists of the modern era.<\/p>\n\n
Throughout her prolific career, Ferron\u2019s work was included in many major group exhibitions. The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al presented two retrospectives of her work in 1970 and 2000. She became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1972 and, in 1983, was awarded the Paul-\u00c9mile-Borduas Prize, the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s highest honour for achievement in the visual arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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