albert dumouchel

Tuesday February 3 to Saturday, March 21, 2015.

Opening Friday, February 6 17:30.

Biography

Albert Dumouchel, painter, printmaker, teacher.
He was born at Salabery de Valleyfield April 15 1916.
He died at Saint-Antoine-sur-le-Richelieu January 17 1971.

Self thaught artist, he studied the basics of etching with James Lowe in Valleyfield. He will later work with the best Paris printers such as Leblanc and Desjobert.

He will first teach drawing at the Valleyfield Seminaire from 1936 to 1949 then drawing and engraving at l’École des arts graphiques de Montréal from 1942 to 1960.

In Montréal in 1945, he participated in the "cadavres exquis" experiments with Léon Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Jean Léonard, Mimi Parent and Alfred Pellan, and, in 1947 and 1949, published 2 famous issues of Les Ateliers d'arts graphiques, the review of Montréal's École des arts graphiques. In 1948 he joined the free-art "Prisme d'yeux" group and later made contributions to the first publications of Roland Giguère's Éditions Erta. Between 1949 and 1954, his lithographs illustrated Giguère's Faire naître, Les Nuits abat-jour and Les Armes blanches. Giguère interested Dumouchel in the Cobra movement, and his

work appeared in the Revue internationale de l'art expérimental - Cobra (1954), and in Phases de l'art contemporain (1955), the review published by poet and surrealist critic Édouard Jaguer.

His work as an art teacher at the École des arts graphiques and the École des beaux-arts in Montréal until his death influenced several generations of artists. The Montréal Musée d'art contemporain held an exhibition of his engravings in 1974.

His works are in the greatest art collections as well in Canada as abroad.