Charlevoix Landscape

Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)

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Gallery

Cosner Art Gallery Ritz - Carlton Montreal
Medium

Watercolor
Time

Canadian landscape painter
Dimensions

61 x 73,6 cm | 24'' x 29''
Dimensions with frame

76,2 x 93,9 cm | 30'' x 37''
Signed

Signed lower left

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.