Jean Dallaire was a Québécois painter who worked in Canada and France between the 1930s and 1960s. He was stylistically diverse, influenced by Italian theatre, mythological figures, Surrealism, synthetic Cubism, and Art brut.
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Jean Dallaire, Le Propriétaire, 1953, oil on canvas.
Collection of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec |
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Jean Dallaire, Odile, 1957, oil on masonite. Purchase from Harriette J. MacDonnell,
Bequest to the Collection of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
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he exhibition Tribute to Dallaire opened on June 9 (which would have been Dallaire’s 100th birthday) at the Montcalm Gallery in Gatineau, Quebec. It shows work created in the province of Quebec: a house and clothesline in Roberval, a Luskville landscape, Dallaire’s young wife Marie-Thérèse and Le Messager, painted in France in 1965.
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