Jean Dallaire (1916–1965)
Portrait of Nabu
Gouache
12″ x 5.25″
13,500.
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Artist Origin:Canadian; born in Hull, Québec; worked in Québec, Ottawa, Montréal, Paris, and Vence, France.
Artist Type: Québec modernist painter; figurative painter; muralist; illustrator; teacher; artist associated with Cubist, Surrealist, and theatrical imagery.
Born: June 9, 1916, Hull, Québec.
Died: November 27, 1965, Vence, France.
Jean Dallaire was one of the most imaginative and distinctive painters in twentieth-century Canadian art. Born in Hull, Québec, he developed a highly personal visual world shaped by European modernism, religious imagery, theatre, fantasy, and the strange poetry of everyday life. After studying in Montréal and Paris, he spent four years interned in France during the Second World War, an experience that intensified the psychological complexity of his work. Returning to Canada, Dallaire taught at the École des beaux-arts de Québec and later worked with the National Film Board before settling again in France. His paintings remain unmistakable: refined, theatrical, often whimsical, and quietly unsettling — a rare fusion of technical discipline and dreamlike invention
Guy Robert, Dallaire ou l’œil panique (1980).
A key scholarly reference on Dallaire’s symbolic, theatrical, and psychologically charged visual language — useful for collectors assessing period, subject matter, stylistic originality, and his position within Québec modernism.
Historical and Contemporary Gallery located in Toronto at 33 Hazelton Ave.
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