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Marcelle Ferron was a dedicated follower of Paul-Emile Borduas and the Automatiste movement. She studied at the Ecole du Meuble in Montreal and the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Quebec City before moving to Paris. Throughout her prolific and decorated career, Marcelle Ferron exhibited broadly, both at home and internationally. During the Paris years (1953-1966) Ferron’s work achieved prominence, and she flourished as an independent artist. Her paintings became progressively more bold and vibrant, with dynamic strokes thickly applied to her canvases, often with a palette knife or spatula.
Marcelle Ferron’s work has been featured in more than thirty shows in Canada and numerous international exhibitions. In 1970, The Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal staged a retrospective of her work, subsequently shown in Paris at the Canadian Cultural Centre in 1972.
