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Alfred Pellan
Canadian, 1906–1988
WA-00022310
Quebec, Canada
PaintingFauvismSurrealismCubism
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Alfred Pellan was a Canadian painter and sculptor who worked in abstraction and figuration across painting, printmaking, and ceramics. Born in Quebec in 1906, he developed a formal language that synthesized European modernism with a distinctly North American sensibility, becoming a central figure in postwar Quebec art. His practice engaged color, geometric form, and gestural mark-making across multiple mediums. Pellan remained based in Quebec throughout his career, where he died in 1988.
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