Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Reflets d'automne québécois
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery Ritz - Carlton Montreal
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Medium
Mixed watercolor
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Time
Canadian landscape painter
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Dimensions
56 x 76 cm | 22'' x 30''
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Dimensions with frame
86 x 106,8 cm | 34'' x 42''
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Signed
Signed lower left, titled on the label on verso
Catalogue raisonné # A-0377 of paintings de Marc-aurèle Fortin
Marc-Aurèle Fortin therefore advocates the national art of the French-Canadian terroir. Like his predecessors such as Suzor-Coté and Clarence Gagnon, Fortin painted the habitat rather than the inhabitant. He wanted to paint rurality beyond the Quebec climate. Moreover, Marc-Aurèle Fortin affirmed this: "So I invented green trees. I said: There is something other than snow in the province of Quebec."1
Fortin's nature was that of the countryside and agricultural activity. According to Fortin, the national identity passed through this rather than through the wild nature of the great virgin spaces. For an artist who clings to this vision of nationalism and its traditions.
other works of the artist

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Sans titre

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Untitled (HL Montreal)

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Untitled (Landscape)

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Couleurs d'automne

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
La croix du chemin

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Untitled

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Paysage en automne

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Vue de la montagne
