inscribed “circa 1993”
Provenance: Ingram Gallery, Toronto ON
Marcelle Ferron initially studied at the Ecole du Meuble (Montreal) and the Ecole des Beaux-arts (Quebec), though this education became progressively dissonant with her modernist sensibility. Ferron became a member of Paul-Émile Borduas’s Automatiste art movement, signing the Refus Global manifesto in 1948. She began to achieve prominence while living in Paris (1953-1966). In 1963, she began to study glass making and stained glass techniques. She devoted herself to this art form for many years, and did not return to painting again for quite some time.
Marcelle Ferron exhibited broadly throughout her prolific and decorated career, both in Canada and internationally. 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.
