Paysage à la montagne (Mountain view landscape)

Paysage à la montagne (Mountain view landscape) par Marc-Aurèle Fortin, c.1929

Marc-Aurele-Fortin-Montreal-Landscape-watercolor-Galerie-Cosner par Marc-Aurèle Fortin

Marc-Aurele-Fortin-Montreal-watercolor-Galerie-Cosner par Marc-Aurèle Fortin

Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)

Paysage à la montagne (Mountain view landscape), c.1929

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Gallery

Espace 1130 - Cosner Gallery | Art dealers
Medium

Watercolor
Time

Fine Canadian Art
Dimensions

33,02 x 49,5 cm | 13'' x 19,5''
Dimensions with frame

59,7 x 73,6 cm | 23,25'' x 29''
Signed

Signed lower left, titled on verso

Marc-Aurèle Fortin developed a passion for watercolor at an early stage, naturally drawn to the technique for its lightness and portability. A tireless wanderer of Montreal’s streets and scenic viewpoints, Fortin found in watercolor an ideal companion—much like the painters before him who favored pochade. For him, it became a means of exploring pure color, revealing the skilled colorist he would become. From the heights of Mount Royal, which he often used as a vantage point, Fortin captured the city’s shapes and hues with remarkable simplicity. This urban geometry, often stylized, was sometimes softened by the swirling smoke rising from ships or buildings within his compositions.