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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
LE VILLAGE DE PERCE, GASPESIE, P.Q.
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Fleurimond Constantineau (1905 – 1981)
A painter, draftsman and educator, Fleurimond Constantineau was born in Saint-Leonard-de-Port-Maurice, Quebec (now a part of Montreal); other than for travel, he lived his whole life in Montreal and died there.
His mediums were oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pencil, ink, felt pen, charcoal, colored chalk, crayon and mixed mediums. His best-known subjects are street scenes of Montreal, landscapes, seascapes and Inuit (Eskimo) genre*. He visited northern Quebec and the Northwest Territories (Canada’s Arctic) six times (1951, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1973) over a period of twenty-three years (his first trip was aboard the supply ship Regina Polaris, see AskART Images).
The Library and Archives of Canada has a collection of 68 of his drawings and paintings (and 29 photographs) documenting these trips. They depict elements of Inuit daily life such as hunting, trapping, fishing, igloo building, driving dog sleds, portraits, figures and interiors.
Constantineau’s styles were Realism* and Impressionism*. AskART has several very good illustrations of his work.
His formal art education includes the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal (1924 – 1929) under Charles Maillard (see AskART), where Constantineau won many awards and graduated with a degree in drawing, painting and sculpture. From 1932 to 1957, he taught art at several schools including the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1945).
In addition to his Arctic travels he traveled across Canada several times and visited Europe, Africa and the French Antilles.
He does not appear to have belonged to any artist associations, however his works were included in the Spring Exhibitions of the Art Association of Montreal (now Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) from 1932 to 1946 and he exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts* in 1945.
According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network* his works are in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Joliette Art Museum (Quebec), La Pulperie (Chicoutimi, Quebec), Musée Pierre-Boucher (Trois-Rivières, Quebec), and the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec City).
Sources:
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar (see AskART book references)
Magazin’art: Biennial Guide to Canadian Artists in Galleries, 2000 – 2001 (2000), edited by Lise Goulet and Jean-Guy Thibault (see AskART book references)
Art and Architecture in Canada (1991), by Loren R. Lerner and Mary F. Williamson (see AskART book references)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Spring Exhibitions 1880 – 1970 (1988), by Evelyn de R. McMann (see AskART book references)
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: Exhibitions and Members, 1880 – 1979 (1981), by Evelyn de R. McMann (see AskART book references)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1974), by Colin S. MacDonald (see AskART book references)
Canadian Heritage Information Network*
Beauchamp Art Gallery, Quebec City
Archives Canada
* For more in-depth information about these terms and others, see AskART.com Glossary http://www.askart.com/AskART/lists/Art_Definition.aspx.
Prepared and contributed by M.D. Silverbrooke.
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