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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

Alfred Pellan
Québec (Québec, Canada), 1906 – Laval (Québec, Canada), 1988
Training
  • Studied at the École des beaux-arts de Québec when he was only 15 years old.
  • The first painter to win a Québec government bursary, he left fro France in 1926.
  • Attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris until 1930.
Artistic production
  • Main influences: Van Gogh and Fauves (for their coloured palette), Cubists Picasso and Braque (for the structure in their works) and the Surrealists (for their unbridled imagination).
  • Developed a unique, new style from these influences.
Alongside his artistic career
  • Taught at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal for 10 years.
Noteworthy accomplishments
  • His work opened the door to modernity in Québec, which, at the time, was profoundly conservative.
  • Co-signed Prisme d’Yeux, a manifesto drafted by Jacques de Tonnancour advocating freedom of expression in art.
Features
  • Discovered his calling in a cigar box containing paints forgotten by his father in a drawer.
  • Sold his first canvas at age 17 to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.