MAPPING THE AUTOMATISTS

As teenagers, Françoise Sullivan, Pierre Gauvreau and Bruno Cormier shared many readings, discussed music, painting and films. They often met at St. Louis Square.

The topic is l’École du Meuble where Paul-Émile had been a teacher from 1937 to 1948.

During the visits of the young people to Borduas’s studio, which became a sort of habit, we did more than discuss art and poetry. Everyone was free to bring their own work and to receive advice from the master. He himself would show them his own paintings, especially that amazing series of gouaches that occupied him at that time. […]

Fernand Leduc's "Atelier" was, between 1944 and 1946, an important gathering point for young passionate artists. They have found their moments of stimulating exchanges giving meaning to their artistic productions and to their professional and social commitments.

The Monument National is a theater built between 1891 and 1893. From 1938 many Automatists will take part of shows and plays presented there.

The Atelier de la ruelle was the studio of the artists Marcel Barbeau, Jean Paul Riopelle and occasionally Jean-Paul Mousseau, from the fall of 1945 until the end of April 1946.

Montreal Museum of Fine Art part 3