Rita Letendre (1928 - 2021)
Abstraction, 1963
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery - Montreal
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Medium
Mixed media
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Time
Post-War Canadian art
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Dimensions
58,4 x 44,5 cm | 23'' x 17,5''
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Dimensions with frame
76,2 x 61 cm | 30'' x 24''
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Signed
Signed lower right
In 1963, Rita Letendre returned to Montreal after a one-year stay in Paris, Italy and Israel. The same year, her works are exhibited at the Camille Hébert Gallery in Montreal. The 1950s and 1960s in the arts in Quebec are characterized by the pictorial formalism1
1. Marie Caranni (1992)."Le formalisme au féminin. Rita Letendre, peintre et muraliste", Les bâtisseuses de la cité, actes du colloque dans le cadre de la Section d'études féministes du congrès de l'Afcas 1992, Les cahiers scientifiques, p.282
