Denis Juneau - Artist Info

About Denis Juneau

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    Denis Juneau (September 30, 1925 – October 6, 2014) was a Canadian painter and a leading figure in the Canadian plasticien movement.

    Juneau was born in Montreal in 1925. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, under the guidance of Alfred Pellan, amongst others, and became a notorious figure in the new wave of artists that Quebec was to produce in the era of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

    Third child of 5, Juneau suffered from total deafness as a result of meningitis contracted at the age of 18 months. Despite this handicap, and having a paralysed right leg from poliomyelitis contracted at age 3, he went on to study in Italy, at the Sculoa di Disegno di Novara from 1954 to 1956. From Italy, he also retained ...

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