Jean McEwen (1923 - 1999)
Belle-Île-en-Mer, 1952
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery - Montreal
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Medium
Ink
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Time
Post-War Canadian art
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Dimensions
17 x 13,3 cm | 6,5'' x 5''
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Dimensions with frame
35,5 cm x 30,5 cm | 14'' x 12''
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Signed
Signed and dated 52 lower right
Paul-Émile Borduas encourages the young Jean McEwen to stay in Paris and to contact Jean-Paul Riopelle once there; what he did from 1951 to 1952. This decision will have a decisive impact on McEwen's artistic approach for the following years. He visited several exhibitions of avant-garde painters where he meets the headliners such as Sam Francis and Jackson Pollock. He discovers through his encounters the all-over style of abstract expressionism that he will apply to his works from that moment on.
The artist produced a multitude of works in watercolor and ink during the summer of 1952. These often called Belle Île en Mer is the place in Brittany where he spent the season with Jean-Paul Riopelle.
