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17. 4” X 23.1” oil on board, signed M. Failmel (c.1943).
Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Marguerite Paquette Fainmel CAS, FCA (1910 – 1981)
Marguerite Paquette Fainmel (AKA: Marguerite Paquette, AKA: Marguerite Fainmel) was a painter and muralist. (1)
She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and, other than for three years in New York City (1929 – 1931), lived most of her life in Montreal.
Her mediums included oil paint, pastel and fresco*. Her subjects were landscapes, buildings, still life, portraits and figures. Her styles included Fauvism* and Expressionism*.
In the 1920s, she studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal and from 1931 to 1934 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière*, Paris under Andre Lhote [see AskART].
She was a member of John Lyman’s [see AskART] avant-garde* Contemporary Arts Society* and of the Federation of Canadian Artists*; and she exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1938 and 1942. (2)
According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network* Marguerite Paquette Fainmel works are in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa).
Footnotes:
(1) Her husband was Charles Fainmel (1904 – 1968). He was a painter, illustrator and writer and also a member of the Contemporary Arts Society. His works are in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. Sources: The Canadian War Museum and The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar (see AskART books).
(2) The provenance attached to the one work of hers in the Art Gallery of Ontario notes an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now Art Gallery of Ontario) titled “Fainmel” in 1943, with a question mark before it; no further information is provided. Source: Page 108, "Art Gallery of Ontario – The Canadian Collection" (1970), by Helen Pepall Bradfield (see AskART books).
Sources:
– "Art Gallery of Ontario – The Canadian Collection" (1970), by Helen Pepall Bradfield (see AskART books).
– "The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction" (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar (see AskART books).
– “Canadian Painting in the Thirties” (1975), by Charles C. Hill (see AskART books).
– The Canadian Heritage Information Network*.
* 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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