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Died 7 January 2010, Montreal, Canada | ||
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Louis Jaque (May 1, 1919, Montreal - January 7, 2010, Montreal) was a Canadian painter who belonged to the Quebec modernist movement of the post war period.
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Biography
Jaque received his diploma from the Ecole du Meuble where he studied under Jean-Paul Lemieux and Paul-Emile Borduas. He embraces abstraction in the 1950s. Solo exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art in 1966. He was one of the founding members in 1969 of the Société des Artistes Professionnels du Québec (SAPQ) and its first president. He made a monumental mural for the Quebec pavilion at the Osaka Universal Exhibition in Japan in 1970 and another one in 1972 for the Maison de Radio-Canada (CBC) on René-Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal. In 1977 the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts organized a large retrospective exhibition of his work under the title: Louis Jaque, 25 ans de carrière. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. His works can be found in many private and public collections, mainly in Canada, France, Italy and the United States.