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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is funded by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.

  
Collections
Selected works from 1900 to 2000

Sylvia Daoust
Montréal (Québec, Canada), 1902 – 2004
Training
  • Studied drawing and sculpture for one year at the Conseil des Arts et manufacture.
  • Studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1923 to 1928.
Artistic production
  • Her work includes various pieces of a different nature: drawing, painting and engraving. Her preferred means of expression remains sculpture.
Alongside her artistic career
  • Taught drawing, anatomy, modelling and sculpture at the École des beaux-arts de Québec from 1930 to 1943.
  • Taught sculpture in wood and stone at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1943 to 1968.
  • Career marked by travels around the world.
Of note
  • Her work was acknowledged on many occasions.
  • First woman sculptor recognized for her art.