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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Alfred Pellan
    sub title: life & work
  name:
    name part: Lehmann, Maria Rosa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Art Canada Institute
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 135 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm.
  abstract: "For fourteen years in the early twentieth century, Alfred Pellan (1906-1988) acted as a conduit between Canadian and European art. In 1926, at age twenty, he left Quebec for Paris, where he absorbed all that the city's avant-garde had to offer: he met Joan Mir̤, Pablo Picasso, and Fernand Ľger, and he viewed a 1938 Surrealist exhibition that was a "transcendent" experience. Over the next several decades, Pellan divided his time between Paris and Montreal, making a distinctive-though often controversial-impact on modernism in Canada. In Alfred Pellan: Life & Work, author Maria Rosa Lehmann chronicles the storied artist's career from 1923 when the National Gallery of Canada purchased its first canvas by the then seventeen-year-old. The book examines his formative encounters in Paris and how people responded to his art at home. This landmark new publication addresses Pellan's formative years as well as his later career and how in 1952 he was chosen to show at the first Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale art fair-yet at the same time, he struggled for acceptance as he challenged the conservative art establishment in his home province. Brilliantly innovative and unwavering in his battle for artistic freedom, Pellan forged an independent vision that led him to being described by revolutionary art historian Guy Robert as the man who 'set Canadian painting free.'"--Publisher.
  note: by Maria Rosa Lehmann.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-qu
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pellan, Alfred
      name part: 1906-1988
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pellan, Alfred
      name part: 1906-1988
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Painters
    geographic: Québec (Province)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Peintres
    geographic: Québec (Province)
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pellan, Alfred
      name part: 1906-1988
  subject:
    topic: Painters
  subject:
    geographic: Québec
  classification: ND249.P4 L44 2023
  classification: 759.114
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Works. Selections
    name:
      name part: Pellan, Alfred,
      name part: 1906-1988
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Alfred Pellan
    name:
      name part: Lehmann, Maria Rosa.
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto, ON : Art Canada Institute = Institut de l'art canadien, 2023
    identifier: (OCoLC)1372502167
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Canadian Art Library
  identifier: 9781487103187
  identifier: 1487103182
  identifier: 9781487103057
  identifier: 1487103050
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 230726
    record change date: 20250318214801.2
    record identifier: in00005466420
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng