Suzanne Bergeron

Suzanne Bergeron (June 23, 1930 – November 19, 1998) was a Canadian abstract painter.[3]

Suzanne Bergeron
Born(1930-06-23)June 23, 1930
Causapscal, Quebec[1]
DiedNovember 19, 1998(1998-11-19) (aged 68)
Quebec City, Quebec[2]
Spouse(s)Jean-Claude Suhit

Career

She studied painting under Jean Paul Lemieux at École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, graduating in 1953.[1] In 1955, she won the second prize for painting from the Prix de Concours Artistiques de la Provinde du Quebec for study in Paris.[4] In Paris she was awarded the Prix de la Ville de Paris and a Canada Council grant in 1957.[5] She studied at the École du Louvre while in Paris (1957-1958). She was invited to exhibit with the École de Paris in an exhibition travelling through France in 1957.[5]

Critic Dorothy Pfieffer described Bergeron as, "a painter of clean, clear and frosty below-zero atmosphere."[6]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[2] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria[7] and the National Gallery of Canada[3][5]

References
  1. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9781135638894.
  2. "Bergeron, Suzanne".
  3. "Suzanne Bergeron". www.gallery.ca.
  4. Bradfield, Helen (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070925046. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  5. MacDonald, Colin S. (1967). A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 1 (First ed.). Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publishing. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  6. Tippett, Maria, By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, Viking, Toronto, 1992 p. 125
  7. "Suzanne Bergeron – People – eMuseum".


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