Charlevoix Landscape
Marc-Aurèle Fortin therefore advocates the national art of the French-Canadian terroir. Like his predecessors such as Suzor-Coté and Clarence Gagnon, Fortin painted the habitat rather than the inhabitant. He wanted to paint rurality beyond the Quebec climate. Moreover, Marc-Aurèle Fortin affirmed this: "So I invented green trees. I said: There is something other than snow in the province of Quebec."1
Fortin's nature was that of the countryside and agricultural activity. According to Fortin, the national identity passed through this rather than through the wild nature of the great virgin spaces. For an artist who clings to this vision of nationalism and its traditions.
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Charlevoix Landscape
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery Ritz - Carlton Montreal
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Medium
Watercolor
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Time
Canadian landscape painter
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Dimensions
61 x 73,6 cm | 24'' x 29''
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Dimensions with frame
76,2 x 93,9 cm | 30'' x 37''
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Signed
Signed lower left
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Fall Landscape, 1923
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Untitled ( Fall landscape)
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Rougemont View from Mont-Royal, c. 1925
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Gaspesie Landscape, c. 1935
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Baie-St-Paul, c.1925
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Landscape, c. 1950
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Sailships in Gaspesie, c. 1945
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Boats moored in the Port of Montreal, c. 1930
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Elms at Ste-Rose, C. 1950