Alfred Pellan was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist, theatrical designer, muralist and educator. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec and died in Laval (a Montreal suburb), Quebec where he lived most of his life. He also lived in Paris, France for two extended periods, 1926 to 1940 and 1952 to 1955.

His mediums were oil, watercolour, gouache, ink, silkscreen, lithograph, serigraph, etching, charcoal, graphite and mixed mediums. His subjects were still life, landscape, urban scenes, figures, portraits, eroticism, allegory, dreams, fantasy, symbolism, colour, shape and texture. His mature styles were Surrealism and Abstraction. Intense colours, fluid linear rhythms and t...