ARTIST: Andre Michel (French, Canadian, born 1945)
NAME: Paris Cityscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 9 x 7 inches / 22 x 17 cm
FRAME SIZE: 13 x 11 inches / 33 x 27 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Andre Michel is a painter, sculptor and ethnographer, French who has lived in Quebec since 1970.He founded several museums devoted to the way of life of the Amerindians of Canada.He has been nicknamed "The Painter of the Amerindians"Born in Provence in 1945, Andre Michel spent his childhood and adolescence at Le Pontet in the suburbs of Avignon. While pursuing classical studies in philosophy, at the Lycee Frederic Mistral, to obtain his baccalaureate, he took drawing lessons at the fine arts of Avignon, in hiding from his parents. He will win the first prize. In parallel to teaching he began his artistic career. His passion for painting will be reinforced following meetings with Salvador Dali in Avignon and in Port-Ligatt. At the same time, he created a surrealist aesthetic movement, “positionism” which brought objects into balance in space. At the age of 21 he exhibited at the Ror Volmar gallery in Paris. He left France to settle in the islands of the Indian Ocean.Invited to exhibit in Montreal, Canada, in 1970, he became part of an exchange of teachers for a while, in order to be able to extend his stay. Fascinated by the landscapes of the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, he soon moved to Sept-Iles. He made oil paintings which he presented in Havana, at the Museum of Man, at the National Museum of Popular Culture in Mexico City and at the House of Peoples' Friendship in Moscow. With his paintings, his books, his lectures, the artist thus strives to make the Amerindians of Quebec better known.He is the founder, in Quebec, of the three museums of Sept-Iles (the Musee des Sept-Iles, at the Vieux-Poste, 1975 - the Regional Museum of the Cote-Nord, 1985 - the Shaputuan, the museum of the Innu people, 1998) and the five museum institutions of Mont-Saint-Hilaire , in the suburbs of Montreal where he has resided since 1988 (the Musee des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 1995 - La Maison amerindienne, 2000 - la Maison Paul-Emile Borduas, 2001 - Birthplace of Ozias Leduc 1, 2005).