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1912 Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada - 1945 Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada. Known for: Genre, interior, landscape and figure painting, rug hooking.
Simone Mary Bouchard (AKA: S. Mary Bouchard, AKA: Simone Marie Bouchard) was a painter and hooked rug maker. She was born, lived and died in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec. Her painting mediums were oil on... Read full biography
Simone Mary Bouchard (AKA: S. Mary Bouchard, AKA: Simone Marie Bouchard) was a painter and hooked rug maker. She was born, lived and died in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec. Her painting mediums were oil on silk and oil on paper. Her subjects were genre, interiors, landscapes with figures, fantasy and... Read full biography
Simone Mary Bouchard (AKA: S. Mary Bouchard, AKA: Simone Marie Bouchard) was a painter and hooked rug maker. She was born, lived and died in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec. Her painting mediums were oil on silk and oil on paper. Her subjects were genre, interiors, landscapes with figures, fantasy and still life. She was self taught and painted in a Naïve style. Her works were described by Maria Tippett (1) as displaying " … two-dimensionality, awkward perspective, non-rational juxtaposition of intense... Read full biography
Simone Mary Bouchard (AKA: S. Mary Bouchard, AKA: Simone Marie Bouchard) was a painter and hooked rug maker. She was born, lived and died in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec. Her painting mediums were oil on silk and oil on paper. Her subjects were genre, interiors, landscapes with figures, fantasy and still life. She was self taught and painted in a Naïve style. Her works were described by Maria Tippett (1) as displaying " … two-dimensionality, awkward perspective, non-rational juxtaposition of intense colours, a dream-like quality and problematic draftsmanship. Yet they admirably capture the village life of the habitant. " Alfred Pellan (see AskART) called her "Quebec's greatest primitive.". In 1936 she was discovered by anthropologist and... Read full biography
Simone Mary Bouchard (AKA: S. Mary Bouchard, AKA: Simone Marie Bouchard) was a painter and hooked rug maker. She was born, lived and died in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec. Her painting mediums were oil on silk and oil on paper. Her subjects were genre, interiors, landscapes with figures, fantasy and still life. She was self taught and painted in a Naïve style. Her works were described by Maria Tippett (1) as displaying " … two-dimensionality, awkward perspective, non-rational juxtaposition of intense colours, a dream-like quality and problematic draftsmanship. Yet they admirably capture the village life of the habitant. " Alfred Pellan (see AskART) called her "Quebec's greatest primitive.". In 1936 she was discovered by anthropologist and folklorist Marius Barbeau and, his then assistant, artist Joseph Jean Albert Palardy (see Ask... Read full biography
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Simone Mary Bouchard (AKA: S. Mary Bouchard, AKA: Simone Marie Bouchard) was a painter and hooked rug maker. She was born, lived and died in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec.
Her painting mediums were oil on silk and oil on paper. Her subjects were genre, interiors, landscapes with figures, fantasy and still life. She was self taught and painted in a Naïve style. Her works were described by Maria Tippett (1) as displaying " … two-dimensionality, awkward perspective, non-rational juxtaposition of intense colours, a dream-like quality and problematic draftsmanship. Yet they admirably capture the village life of the habitant... " Alfred Pellan (see AskART) called her "Quebec's greatest primitive."
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